Spanish Science Fiction and Fantasy

[15/01/2005] The five runner-ups for the Minotauro 2005 contest of fantastic novel in Spanish, the best endowed in the world with 18,000 euros, have been announced. They include Víctor Conde with El teatro secreto, Rodolfo Martínez with Este incómodo ropaje, and Eduardo Vaquerizo with Danza de tinieblas. The winner will be announced in mid-February.

[07/11/2004] The Ignotus award for the best short story, voted by the members of the Spanish Association for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror and the attendees to the HispaCon, the national Spanish convention (held in Cádiz), went to "Negras águilas" by Eduardo Vaquerizo.

[02/11/2004] Spanish SF magazine Asimov has published the short stories "La piedra y el hierro" by Rafael Marín and "Amanecer en la playa" by Ángel Torres Quesada.

[01/11/2004] Spanish SF magazine Artifex has published the short stories "Sueños" by Ángel Torres Quesada and "El último suspiro" by Rafael Marín.

[15/08/2004] French SF magazine Galaxies has published the short story "La route" ("La carretera") by Rodolfo Martínez.

[27/07/2004] Víctor Conde was interviewed in the Spanish website Comentarios de libros (the interview can be found here).

[01/07/2004] Spanish publishing house Gigamesh has published the novel El sueño del rey rojo by Rodolfo Martínez.

[29/06/2004] Víctor Conde, José Antonio Cotrina, Rafael Marín and Rodolfo Martínez will be guests of the Semana Negra festival in Gijón (Asturias) between the 9th and the 13th July, 2004.

[20/06/2004] Víctor Conde attended the 11th Science Fiction Festival in Nidzica (Poland) invited by the Polish publishing house Solaris.

[17/06/2004] Spanish publishing house Minotauro has published the novel Mystes by Víctor Conde (a runner-up in the Minotauro contest).

[06/05/2004] Spanish publishing house Bibliópolis has published the novel Sherlock Holmes y la sabiduría de los muertos by Rodolfo Martínez.

[01/05/2004] "Un mundo de reflejos", a short story by Ángel Torres Quesada, has appeared in Spanish SF magazine Asimov.

[29/04/2004] "El jardín automático", a short story by Eduardo Vaquerizo, has appeared in Spanish SF magazine Artifex.

[25/03/2004] Spanish publishing house Robel has published the novel Territorio de pesadumbre by Rodolfo Martínez.

[08/03/2004] Spanish SF website Cyberdark has published a series of articles on and an interview with José Antonio Cotrina, which can be found here.

[01/03/2004] Spanish SF magazine Asimov has published the short story "Atraviesa el desierto" by Rodolfo Martínez.

[10/02/2004] Víctor Conde is a runner-up in the Minotauro 2004 contest of fantastic novel in Spanish, the best endowed in the world with 18,000 euros. His novel, Mystes, will be published by Minotauro in 2005.

[01/02/2004] "La niña muerta", a short story by José Antonio Cotrina which won the Doming Santos contest, has appeared in Spanish SF magazine Asimov.

[01/01/2004] Spanish SF magazine Asimov has published the short story "Voces de un tiempo distante" by Víctor Conde.

[15/12/2003] Spanish publishing house Ediciones de la Diputación de Albacete has published the novel Detective sin licencia by Rafael Marín.

[01/12/2003] "Palabras de amor", a short story by Rafael Marín, has appeared in Spanish SF magazine Asimov.

[01/11/2003] Rodolfo Martínez was interviewed for the Spanish SF website Cyberdark (the interview can be found here).

[17/10/2003] José Antonio Cotrina won the Domingo Santos short story contest with "La niña muerta", to be published in the Spanish SF magazine Asimov.

[15/10/2003] Spanish publishing house La Factoría de Ideas has published the novel Las fuentes perdidas by José Antonio Cotrina.

[01/10/2003] "El visitante", a short story by Ángel Torres Quesada, has appeared in Spanish SF magazine Asimov.

[15/9/2003] Mexican mainstream magazine Blanco Móvil published an issue on Spanish SF edited by Julián Díez, including the short stories "El coleccionista" by Víctor Conde, "Tormenta" by José Antonio Cotrina, "Piensa lo que quieras" by Rodolfo Martínez and "El obrador" by Eduardo Vaquerizo.

[15/07/2003] The Polish translation of Lágrimas de luz by Rafael Marín has appeared under the title Krople swiatla (Solaris).

[07/07/2003] French publishing house Imaginaires Sans Frontières has bought the rights for the French translation of Lágrimas de luz by Rafael Marín. Publication is scheduled for November 2004.

[01/07/2003] Spanish publishing house Robel has begun to publish a new edition of the Orden Estelar series by Ángel Torres Quesada on a monthly bases. The total number of volumes planned is 28.

[08/04/2003] Spanish SF magazine Artifex has published the short story "Negras águilas" by Eduardo Vaquerizo.

[13/03/2003] Polish publishing house Solaris has bought the rights for the Polish translation of Lágrimas de luz by Rafael Marín. Publication is scheduled for June 2003.

[10/03/2003] "Horizontes de sucesos", a short story by Víctor Conde, has appeared in Spanish SF magazine Solaris.

[28/02/2003] Spanish publishing house Minotauro (a company belonging to Planeta) has published a Spanish science fiction anthology selected by expert Julián Díez. It includes the best stories of the past 20 years; among them, "Entre líneas", by José Antonio Cotrina, "Mein Führer" by Rafael Marín, "Un jinete solitario" by Rodolfo Martínez and "Una esfera perfecta" by Eduardo Vaquerizo.

[01/02/2003] Ángel Torres Quesada's past career as a pulp SF writer was quoted in a piece about pulp fiction in the February issue of Spanish mainstream literature magazine Qué Leer.