Alice B. Sheldon (Chicago, 1915 - McLean, 1987) signed her books with the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr.: she chose a generic name like James and took the surname Tiptree from a jam jar. Women than men They don't see It is a collection of twelve stories written between 1962 and 1973 that functions as a perfect trap: it seems like adventure science fiction, but in reality, it is a highly precise piece of ideological dissection. Sheldon doesn't imagine distant futures to escape the present, but rather uses them to make it intolerably visible, anticipating current debates on feminism, sex, and environmentalism.

"I think all my books have something related to mythology or some kind of revelation. It's about searching for something that isn't obvious, making a discovery. But I try to make each book very different; that is, I try to do what I don't know how to do. Because I think that in literature we have to take risks, you know?" Anna Pantinat (Barcelona, ​​1977) is a multifaceted artist. She is a part-time high school teacher, a member with her sister Laia of the electro-punk garage band Pentina't Lula, and, until recently, the author of four books of poetry, including Posthuman joys (2025), which is in the process of being set to music. Sumer is here It is the fifth book he has published and comes after 13 years of work.

Fans of fantasy and science fiction films have a date at the Palau Firal i de Congresos in Tarragona on March 21 and 22, 2026. There will be cosplayers Characters dressed as figures from galactic sagas and other fantasy series and films will stroll through the venue and take photos with attendees. There will also be sets recreating scenes from movies to transform the event into a truly immersive and impactful experience.

At first glance, it may seem that science fiction has been a minority pursuit among Catalan authors. Historically, it hasn't been a genre highly valued by academia, it has received little—or poor—publication in the media, and readers have only embraced it en masse on rare occasions. The exhibition Essa EfaCurated by journalist, professor, and literary critic Joaquim Noguero (Manresa, 1964), the exhibition aims to correct this perception by exploring some of the most compelling (and largely unusual) works of Catalan science fiction. "Although science fiction has been represented primarily by authors, scholars, and publishers who have not positioned themselves within the..." mainstreamIt has more than a century of history, and perhaps its most recognizable success is the Second origin typescript"Manuel de Pedrolo's novel, which is by far the best-selling novel in the history of Catalan literature," Noguero recalls. One of the clichés of the fantasy genre defines its followers as geeks: perhaps those who cultivate them—even when they become best-sellers– they are too.

When in 2019 Disney bought 21st Century Fox studio for more than 60 billion euros He not only acquired the superhero trading cards he was missing from his Marvel collection (the franchises X-Men, Deadpool, Fantastic Four...) but iconic sagas like Alien and PredatorThese films, which blended science fiction, horror, and action, naturally raised questions about how they fit into the completely accessible and uncomplicated approach that defines Disney's corporate identity. Six years later, perhaps the answer is... Predator: Badlands, which arrives in theaters this Friday and is a strange hybrid between one of Hollywood's most hyper-violent sagas and cinema family-friendly from Disney.

There are films that arrive too early and it is not until thirty years after their release that the public comes to understand them as they were conceived. This is the case of Starship Troopers, by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, known for other science fiction films such as Robocop and Total Recall.

Short story collections don't come in handy. This is a maxim in the publishing world that many authors try to overthrow. Ted Chiang is one such exponent in the science fiction genre. Throughout the eight stories contained in The story of your life and other stories, the American author of Chinese origin elegantly transports us to completely plausible and familiar environments, sometimes magical, always incorporating a component of criticism and reflection on our place in the Universe and the future of our society.

Control over bodies, especially women's bodies, has been a recurring theme in dystopian narratives depicting futuristic authoritarian regimes. The evaluation, an effective and stylized science fiction chamber piece, does not contain the fierce genre reading ofThe Handmaid's Tale, but the spirit of the novel Margaret Atwood permeates the description of this post-climate disaster universe: aseptic and safe but also tightly regulated, where couples who want to have children must pass a strict external evaluation.

If current events aren't dystopian enough yet, Netflix premieres a new season of Black Mirror, the mirror of a near future that, if the series is any indication, will be terrifying. Fourteen years after becoming a worldwide phenomenon, the fiction created by Charlie Brooker premieres its seventh season, an installment that comes with a novelty compared to the previous ones: for the first time, it includes an episode that is a sequel to a story told in a previous season.