After the issues dedicated to the science fiction from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, (and international SF : Brazil and India),Fantastica, the Romanian Science Fiction&Fantasy Society’s Magazine, is presenting the Dutch Science Fiction & Fantasy (Fantastica No.4/Winter 2014), one relevant European SFF.
Netherlands SF/Olanda SF
Joseph Andreas Dautzenberg - The Overview of the Dutch Speaking SF
Jaap Boekestein - The Beginings of the Dutch Speaking Fandom
Cristian Tamas - The Flying Dutchmen : Trek for Star Trek
Interviews
Cristian Tamas - Multiple Interview with Dutch writers Jan J.B. Kuipers, Mike Jansen, Floris Kleijn and Roelof Goudriaan
Dutch Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Stories
Floris M. Kleijne - Meeting the Sculptor
Mike Jansen - The Copper Oasis
Jan J. B. Kuipers - Mrs. Blavatsky’s Knee
Thomas Olde Heuvelt - The Day the World Turned Upside Down
Marcel Orie - The Chapter Midori
Jetse de Vries - Guidelines for First Contact in Simplified Technical English
Tais Teng - The Thief of Souls
Django Mathijsen - The Sleeping Beauty Symphony
Germany SF
Prof. Dr. Sonja Fritzsche (Illinois Wesleyan University) - German SF
Michael Iwoleit - Some Remarks About the Current German SF
Jakob Schmidt & Helmut W.Alpers - German SF since 1990
Cristian Tamas – The Germanophone Way of SF
Interviews
Interview with Prof.Dr.Sonja Fritzsche - Cristian Tamas
Interview with Lars Schmeink (President of the Association for Research in the Fantastic/GFF) - Cristian Tamas
View from the other side: Franz Rottensteiner interviewed by Will Schofield
German Science Fiction Short Stories
Frank Hebben - Imperium Germanicum
Michael K. Iwoleit - The End of All Days
Helmuth Mommers - Rest in Peace
Frank Hebben - Memories
Sven Klöpping - Let’s Talk about Death, Baby
Thorsten Kuper - Haptic
France SF
Cristian Tamaș (Romania) – Où est la science-fiction d’antan ? (Where is the Science Fiction of Yesteryear ?)
Cristian Mihail Teodorescu (Romania) – Nemo 2014, the French National Science Fiction Convention (C.M.Teodorescu was a GoH at Nemo 2014)
Jean-Claude Dunyach (France) – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the French Science Fiction
Pierre Gévart (France) – From Verne to Houellebecq
Prof.George Slusser (US) – French Science Fiction: The Occluded Genre
Prof.Natacha Vas-Deyres (France) – From the Incertain Time to the Slowed Time
Gérard Klein (France) – Science Fiction’s Dissolution Process
Prof.Arthur B. Evans (US) & Prof.Roger Bozetto – Serge Brussolo’s Surrealist Science Fiction
Ugo Bellagamba (France) – Why SF is Not Fashionable Anymore ?
Gérard Klein (France) – Science Fiction, A Subculture?
Aliette of Bodard (France) – Science Fiction and Non-Western/Non-Anglophone Countries
Interviews by Cristian Tamas with:
Gérard Klein (France)
Ugo Bellagamba (France)
Jean-Pierre Moumon (Laigle) (France)
Interviews with Jean-Claude Dunyach (France) and Natacha Vas-Deyres (France)
French Science Fiction Short Stories :
Serge Brussolo (France) – Like A Dead Mirror (fragment) (Comme un mirroir mort)
Jean-Claude Dunyach (France) – Deciphering the Warp (Déchifrer la trame)
Gérard Klein (France) – Alive Memory, Dead Memory (fragment) (Mémoire vive, mémoire morte)
Aliette of Bodard (France) – Immersion
Italy SF
Essays by Debora Montanari and Arielle Saiber :
“Flying Saucers Would Never Land in Lucca: The Fiction of Italian Science Fiction”- Arielle Saiber
“When Aliens Arrived in Italy They Didn’t Land They Teleported: The New Italian SF” (Quando gli alieni sono venuti in Italia non sono atterrati, si sono teletrasportati: la Nuova Fantascienza Italiana) – Debora Montanari
„Fringe Science and SF: their Relationship in Italy”- Debora Montanari
Short-stories signed by Francesco Verso, Carmelo Rafala and Antonio Bellomi :
“Midsummer Future” – Francesco Verso
“Two Worlds” – Francesco Verso
“Repeat Performance” – Carmelo Rafala
“The Heretic” – Antonio Bellomi
Cristian Tamaș’ interviews with Francesco Verso, Debora Montanari and Arielle Saiber
Articles and essays signed by Mircea Opriță, Adina Popescu, Adela Dinu, Franciscus Georgius, Sorin Camner, Cornel Mărginean, Dănuț Ungureanu, Dan Apostol, Domna Pastourmatzi (Greece), Mary Elizabeth Ginway (US), Paul Kincaid (UK), Maureen Speller Kincaid (UK), Adam Whitehead (UK).