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A personal account of the XXXI. Hungarian National Science Fiction Convention By Judit Lőrinczy As anywhere in the world where science fiction fans live, there are conventions, too. Hungary is no exception. Our SF convention, called HungaroCon, was held for the thirty-first time this year thanks to the Avana SF Society which is the… Continue Reading →
Over at The Portal, Péter Tick has an article entitled A brief history of Hungarian fantasy. Here’s an excerpt: Hungarian fantasy is based on the pre-existing anglophone literary traditions and did not develop independently. Hungarian fantastic literature is varied but authors did not form a movement based on the common usage of the surreal and the fantastic,… Continue Reading →
Hungarian fantasy is based on the pre-existing anglophone literary traditions and did not develop independently. Hungarian fantastic literature is varied but authors did not form a movement based on the common usage of the surreal and the fantastic, and did not have a mentor-student tradition. Fantastic elements may be significant in a writer’s work and even… Continue Reading →
by Mariann Benkö and Gábor Takács, translated by Csilla Kleinheincz The subtitle of MetaGalaktika #11 (Metropolis Media, 2009) seems far-flung as the issue reviews only 200-250 years. The editors of the Hungarian science fiction magazine Galaktika were ambitious enough to show concisely and plainly the birth, development, present, and possible future of Hungarian science fiction…. Continue Reading →
Hungary is a small country in the middle of Europe, with a population of ten million and a language that has its closest relatives in the Ural Mountains. Consequently the number of science fiction and fantasy fans is small, and the number of writers even smaller, basically everyone knows everyone else. I’ll try to give a brief overview of the Hungarian sci-fi and fantasy scene.
Hungarian fantasy writer and editor Csilla Kleinheincz submitted to us this essay on Hungarian Post-Communist Science Fiction, which was originally published in Czech magazine Ikarie. Here’s a trimmed down and translated version of that piece: In the eighties there were already signs of the change that came in 1989 – in these years new authors… Continue Reading →
Over at the now-defunct Fantastic Metropolis site is an article from a while back on Hungarian science fiction by Péter Michaleczky, with a very brief history of the genre in Hungary and a List of The Most Important Hungarian SF novels from between 1975-2000. Who wouldn’t want to read Kiálts farkast! (“Cry Wolf!”), for instance, by… Continue Reading →
Over the past four years we’ve run a selection of articles, guest posts and round tables exclusive to the blog. Here is a small selection: Non-Western SF Roundtable (Part 1) Non-Western SF Roundtable (Part 2) (Global) Women in SF Round Table Australian SF Round Table Round Table: On Environment and Background, Part One Round Table: Environment and Background, Part… Continue Reading →
Hungarian director Krisztián Köves has released the trailer for his new 3D short film, Choice, which had its premier at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Check it out! [note this link is for the 2D version of the trailer]
As I type this we’re 44% funded on the World SF Travel Fund fundraiser, but we dearly need the help to get to 100%! The Fund is set up to enable international genre professionals (writers, editors, translators, bloggers) to travel to a major convention – essentially the World Fantasy Convention, with which we’ve been aligned)… Continue Reading →
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