Tag: speculative fiction
‘Extraction 2’ Has Wrapped Filming After 5 Months of Snowy Sets
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
GLAAD Media Awards Honors Hacks, Eternals, and More in 2022 Ceremony
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
Phantastika in Oberhausen (Germany), 2nd to 3rd of September 2017
The Phantastika is a convention on speculative fiction. There will be costumes, successful German authors, actors and games, as well as music, workshops and...
“Samovar”, the Magazine of Translated Speculative Fiction
"Samovar" is a quarterly magazine of and about translated speculative fiction."Samovar" is publishing fiction and poetry in their original language and in English translation."Samovar"...
Living With Scarcity & Uncertainty: The Merits of 3% (Brazil)—Nina Munteanu (Canada)
Candidates have three minutes to make nine cubes out of a pile of blocks in the centre. Those who complete the puzzle in time...
Nomination process for the German Speculative Fiction Award 2015
The 2015 vote for the Deutscher Phantastik Preis (German Award on Speculative Fiction) has started. It is a public vote on the internet and everybody...
German Free E-zine Corona
These days the first issue for 2015 of the German magazine “Corona” came out. The project goes back to 1997 and provides regular information...
The “MaddAddam Trilogy” by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's "MaddAddam", the final volume in same name trilogy ("Oryx and Crake" and "The Year of the Flood") will be launched next month. Margaret Atwood...
A brief interview with Italian publisher Luigi Petruzzelli about “Quasar”
I could name the article "Quasar, a New Italian Science Fiction Magazine", but then I had to correct at least two words that make...
German e-zine on speculative fiction: Cthulhu Libria
Cthulhu Libria used to be a small text-based newsletter on fantastic literature in German language – but the first time I saw it, I...