Why “District 9” Should Have Been the Most Important Movie of 2009
Science Fiction is in its very nature a symbolic meditation on history itself—Frederic Jameson, critic We call them “prawns”: bottom feeders, vermin: feared and hated […]
Reviews
French Novel World Premiere in Brazil
Written by French author Jean-Pierre Laigle, Rendez-vous avec la destinée was published for the first time in the world as Encontro com o Destino [http://www.devir.com.br/literatura/fc_encontro-com-o-destino.php] […]
The SFWA European Hall of Fame
The SFWA European Hall of Fame edited by James and Kathryn Morrow Tor, 352 pages Every few years, American editors seems to rediscover that there […]
Sky City: New Science Fiction Stories by Danish Authors
When asked to think of Danish authors, Hans Christian Andersen is probably the first to come to mind, and then, possibly, Peter Høeg or […]
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem and Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh’s stylish psychological thriller, released November 2002 in the United States by 20th Century Fox (and recently out on video), eloquently captures the theme […]
Pan’s Labyrinth: Innocence Has a Power Evil Cannot Resist
Do you believe in the collective conscious? How about coincidence? What about fate? I find so often that events, occurrences, observations happen around me as […]
The Movie Contact: a journey to the heart of the Universe
The opening sequence tells the entire story… It is both spectacular and humbling at the same time as we begin with a view of Earth […]