What... you don`t know anything about Spanish science fiction, fantasy and horror? Oh, My God! :-)
Well, Spanish works are published in Latin American countries (and vice versa) since we speak the same language and share cultural references, and books get translated in continental Europe. However, in the global market—in English—we scarcely come across any genre fiction by Spanish authors. Nevertheless, here's a narrative tradition of great interest for those who don't speak Spanish, counting titles of high literary quality and speculative ingenuity, with authors of international renown and with its own classics. Historically there's been a constant evolution in pursuit of higher standards of excellence and a wider readership.
If you want to have a try, here you have some books available on Amazon and other online stores
COLLECTIONS AND MAGAZINES:
- SuperSonic Magazine
- Editor: Cristina Jurado
- Publisher: SuperSonic Magazine
- Translated by: Various
- Abstract: Special issue with some articles and fiction by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Layla Martínez, Maria Antònia Martí Escayol,
Daniel Pérez Navarro, Israel Alonso, Josué Ramos and Juan Manuel Santiago
- Edition: December 2017
- SuperSonic Magazine
- Editor: Cristina Jurado
- Publisher: SuperSonic Magazine
- Translated by: Various
- Abstract: Special issue for the 2016 EuroCon in Barcelona. Stories by Felix J. Palma, Rodolfo Martínez,
Eduardo Vaquerizo, Emilio Bueso and many more. Completely free!
- Edition: November 2016
- Spanish Women of Wonder
- Editor: Leticia Lara and Cristina Jurado
- Publisher: Palabaristas
- Translated by: Sue Burke and Lawrence Schimel, corrector Steve Redwood
- Abstract: Begun as a Kickstarter project to fund the translation of Alucinadas, Spanish Women of Wonder will introduce English-language readers to some of the best speculative fiction written by women in contemporary Spain
- Edition: November 2016
- Barcelona Tales
- Editor: Ian Whates
- Publisher: NewCon Press
- Translated by: Lisa Tuttle
- Abstract: To commemorate the 2016 European Science Fiction Convention being held in this historic city, NewCon Press invited some of Spain's top SF and fantasy authors to write original stories set in or about Barcelona
- Edition: November 2016
- Castles in Spain
- Editor: Mariano Villarreal
- Publisher: Sportula
- Translated by: Various
- Abstract: An exceptional chance to get the stories by Spain’s top authors that changed the direction of its speculative fiction. Ten names that were and are the heart and soul of Spanish science fiction and fantasy. Ten short stories and novelettes that will bring you a sample of its crucial styles, strengths, and subjects in Spain's bigger-on-the-inside history of fantastic literature
- Edition: 2016
- Valoración: Highy recommended
- The Best of Spanish Steampunk
- Editor: James and Marian Womack
- Publisher: Nevsky
- Translated by: James and Marian Womack
- Abstract: Stories from Spain and Latin America that offer alternative retellings of their countries’ histories. They are authors who write from the margins, using Steampunk to investigate themes such as the ethical questions posed by scientific and technical developments in our globalised culture of rapid change, and how that leaves countries not from the dominant culture behind
- Edition: 2015
- Terra Nova: An Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Science Fiction
- Editor: Mariano Villarreal
- Publisher: Sportula
- Translated by: Sue Burke and Lawrence Schimel
- Abstract: Six top Spanish-language authors prove that science fiction remains sharp and visionary, with stories about the deepest anxieties, challenges, and problems of our societies. Their speculations and metaphors analyze and dissect a reality in continuous change
- Edition: 2013
- Valoración: Highy recommended
- Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain
- Editor: Andrea L. Bell & Yolanda Molina-Gavilán
- Publisher: Wesleyan
- Translated by: Andrea L. Bell & Yolanda Molina-Gavilán
- Abstract: Stories from over ten countries, chronologically ranging from 1862 to the present. The introduction examines the ways the genre has developed in Latin America and Spain since the 1700s and studies science fiction as a means of critiquing regional culture, history and politics—especially in times of censorship and political repression
- Edition: 2003
- Darkly Yours
- Editor: Fermín Moreno
- Publisher: Tusitala
- Translated by:
- Abstract: Horror anthology that includes several Spanish authors
- Edition: 2016
ELIA BARCELÓ:
- Heart of Tango
- Author: Elia Barceló
- Publisher: MacLehose Press
- Translated by: David Frye
- Abstract: Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately in love. When he serenades her on the eve of the ceremony, Natalia's father unwittingly invites him to the festivities. There they dance a tango charged with passion, before Diego vanishes, knowing she is lost to him
- Edition: 2010
- The Goldsmith's Secret
- Author: Elia Barceló
- Publisher: MacLehose Press
- Translated by: David Frye
- Abstract: A lonely goldsmith reflects on his life. He decides to return to his home village in Spain, hoping to see again an older woman with whom he had a passionate affair as a teenager. Instead he meets a young woman who captivates him instantly. Their affair feels so natural it evokes an eerie familiarity, as if he were playing a role already played out. The Goldsmith's Secret is a remarkable story of a love trapped between parallel times
- Edition: 2011
- Natural Consequences
- Author: Elia Barceló
- Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
- Translated by: Yolanda Molina-Gavilán & Andrea Bell
- Abstract: The Xhroll, an alien humanoid race whose infertility is bringing them near extinction, come into contact with a crew of human astronauts. Their encounter on a remote space station will have significant consequences for both species when a human male winds up impregnated. Elia Barceló's setup is funny and feminist, and raises questions of what it means to be "male" or "female"-prescient, considering this novel was published in Spanish twenty-five years ago
- Edition: 2021
SALVADOR BAYARRI:
- The Owl In Daylight: A screenplay based on the incredible real life of Philip K. Dick
- Author: Salvador Bayarri
- Publisher: CreateSpace
- Translated by: Salvador Bayarri
- Abstract: Based on a careful review of biographical materials and his personal acquaintance with some of Dick's closest friends and relatives, Salvador Bayarri has written Dick's life story in a screenplay format, preserving the richness of the writer's character as his charming humor and foretelling genius mixes with a personal struggle to make sense of his own visions, the human nature and the meaning of the universe
- Edition: 2013
JAVIER BELTRÁN aka JAMES BELMORT:
- The Backtrack
- Author: Javier Beltrán aka James Belmort
- Publisher: CreateSpace
- Translated by: Caroline Chesire
- Abstract: In these pages I recount my experiences to serve as a manual for all those who can travel back in time. I hope my story will make your lives easier than mine has been
- Edition: 2017
JOSÉ ANTONIO COTRINA:
- The Harvest of Samhein
- Author: José Antonio Cotrina
- Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
- Translated by: Kate LaBarbera & Gabriella Campbell
- Abstract: Twelve teenagers from around the world fall under the spell of a demigod and journey to a mystical realm of devastation and cruelty where they must survive until the Red Moon returns. Despite the perils, these kids do not intend to surrender -they have magic on their side, and the time has come to take initiative! But an evil older than the kingdom itself awakens among the ruins, and the Red Moon approaches...
- Edition: 2020
MIGUEL GÁMEZ:
- The Iceberg Timefold
- Author: Miguel Gámez
- Publisher: Carlinga
- Translated by: Berni Armstrong
- Abstract: What is hiding inside Lazarus Davids’ brain? Lazarus is the designer of a global circulatory transport system, enabling users to travel beneath the Earth’s surface at a hundred thousand miles an hour. An engineering marvel which allows him to take a desperate journey through time and space, shedding then saving his own skin, becoming invisible, and finally turning Lazarus into a man beyond compromise
- Edition: 2014
SANTIAGO EXIMENO:
- Umbría
- Author: Santiago Eximeno
- Publisher: Independent Legions
- Translated by: Daniele Bonfanti
- Abstract: The first story collection in English by Santiago Eximeno. The book has won the 'Premios Nocte' Award of the Asociación Española de Escritores de Terror. Umbrìa is always there. You know it. A surreal city, an underground maze dug in stone, with its hanging bridges and stairs twisting above the abyss
- Edition: 2020
CRISTINA JURADO:
- Alphaland
- Author: Cristina Jurado
- Publisher: Nevsky
- Abstract: Otherness is the idea that permeates all these speculative stories, full of characters troubled by the misconstruction of their identities, and in permanent search for answers in the margins of reality. From upgraded humans to individuals living among daydreams, from monsters to fantastic beings, these creatures populate a highly imaginative and evocative world, impregnated by an inspired sense of wonder
- Edition: 2018
RAY LORIGA:
- Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore
- Author: Ray Loriga
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Translated by: John King
- Abstract: This is a disturbing and exhilarating novel in which the anonymous protagonist, a dealer offering a range of the latest chemicals designed to make consumers forget everything, finds his past and present, along with his own identity, disintegrate under the effects of these 'drugs of oblivion'. Set in the very near future, this novel is very much in the style of dystopias like Orwell's 1984, while also evoking the bewildering visual universe of Blade Runner
- Edition: 2004
MANEL LOUREIRO:
- The Beginning of the End (Apocalypse Z)
- Author: Manel Loureiro
- Publisher: AmazonCrossing
- Translated by: Pamela Carmell
- Abstract: The dead rise. Humanity falls. The end of the world has begun. Governments scramble to stop the zombie virus, people panic, so-called “Safe Havens” are established, the world erupts into chaos; soon it’s every man, woman, and child for themselves. Armed only with makeshift weapons and the will to live, a lone survivor will give mankind one last chance
- Edition: 2012
- Dark Days (Apocalypse Z Book 2)
- Author: Manel Loureiro
- Publisher: AmazonCrossing
- Translated by: Pamela Carmell
- Abstract: The Russian-spawned virus that kills swiftly then ghoulishly resurrects its victims as ravenous cannibals has breached international borders. Promised safe havens become deathtraps, lawlessness crumbles any remaining symbol of authority, and political violence in Spain threatens to erupt in civil war. The distant isle of Lanzarote is rumored to be the only refuge out of the virus’s reach
- Edition: 2013
- The Wrath of the Just (Apocalypse Z Book 3)
- Author: Manel Loureiro
- Publisher: AmazonCrossing
- Translated by: Pamela Carmell
- Abstract: Rescued from certain death at sea, a young Spanish lawyer, the beautiful woman he loves, and his brash, battle-hardened best friend—who have weathered the worst of the unnatural disaster—think they’re escaping to freedom but are delivered into a stronghold of hate. In a United States ravaged by a zombie plague and overrun by the undead, only Gulfport, Mississippi, offers sanctuary...for a price: subservience to a fascist dictator and his brutal enforcers
- Edition: 2014
- The Last Passenger
- Author: Manel Loureiro
- Publisher: AmazonCrossing
- Translated by: Andrés Alfaro
- Abstract: Reporter Kate Kilroy accepts an assignment to travel on the Valkyrie, a German ship veiled in secrecy for decades after it was discovered adrift in 1939 with only one passenger aboard, a baby boy named Isaac Feldman. Obsessed with understanding his origins, Feldman has spent a small fortune restoring the Valkyrie to try to solve the mystery. Assembling a team of experts and sparing no expense, he aims to precisely recreate the circumstances of the Valkyrie’s doomed final voyage
- Edition: 2015
SERGIO LLANES:
- The Twilight of the Normidons
- Author: Sergio Llanes
- Publisher: Dokusou
- Translated by: Sue Burke
- Abstract: After three thousand years under the domination of the Sforza dynasty, the foundations of the Aurian Empire seem to be teetering. The rebellion in Auvernia and the disturbing presence of barbarian incursions on the borders feed fears for the worst. General Antonius Sforza, first-born son of Emperor, has been chosen to put an end to the Auvernian resistance, leading the campaign and commanding Auria’s mighty legions
- Edition: 2016
RODOLFO MARTÍNEZ:
- The Song of Bêlit
- Author: Rodolfo Martínez
- Publisher: Sportula
- Translated by: the author
- Abstract: Conan travels aboard the Argus, a merchant ship from Messantia, when they are attacked by the Tigress, the ship of the pirate Bêlit. During the confrontation, the Cimmerian is ready to sell his life, but when the situation seems more desperate, Bêlit becomes infatuated with the barbarian and he becomes her lover
- Edition: 2020
- The Road To Nowhere
- Author: Rodolfo Martínez
- Publisher: Newcon Press
- Translated by: the author
- Abstract: First English language short story collection by one of Spain’s most respected SF authors, Martínez has won multiple awards for his novels and short fiction. This collection represents his finest work to date, as selected by the author. Thirteen stories drawn from a career spanning more than twenty years, tales that explore humankind’s relationship with technology, with AI, with alien worlds, and with one another
- Edition: 2018
- The Queen's Adept
- Author: Rodolfo Martínez
- Publisher: Sportula
- Translated by: Rodolfo Martínez
- Abstract: The People's Covenant and God's Hammer have raged a Cold War that has lasted for over twenty years. A war without armies, where battles are fought in the dark and information is the most dangerous weapon. In this world —which sometimes seems the Middle Ages, sometimes the Renaissance and sometimes the Nineteenth Century— lives Yáxtor Brandan, empirical adept at the service of the Queen of Alboné
- Edition: 2015
- Cat's Whirld
- Author: Rodolfo Martínez
- Publisher: Sportula
- Translated by: Steve Redwood
- Abstract: The neutral Convergence Space Station No. 1, known as the Whirld, is the unofficial but deadly battleground in which several Galactic powers fight to obtain a certain piece of information that would inevitably determine their whole future. But then an all-powerful malevolent AI, for reasons known only to itself, also enters the game… An original fusion of thriller, cyberpunk, and Space Opera
- Edition: 2015
ROSA MONTERO:
- Tears in Rain
- Author: Rosa Montero
- Publisher: AmazonCrossing
- Translated by: Lilit Zekulin Thwaites
- Abstract: Death is inevitable. Especially when you have an expiration date. As a replicant, or “techno-human,” Detective Bruna Husky knows two things: humans bioengineered her to perform dangerous, undesirable tasks; and she has just ten years on the United States of Earth before her body automatically self-destructs. Investigating the mysterious deaths, Bruna delves into the fractious, violent history shared by humans and replicants
- Edition: 2012
- Weight of the Heart
- Author: Rosa Montero
- Publisher: AmazonCrossing
- Translated by: Lilit Zekulin Thwaites
- Abstract: Part human and part robot, private investigator Bruna Husky has been hired to locate a stolen diamond. But as Bruna’s leads start to drop dead, her case becomes about much more than a stolen gem—and much more dangerous. Traversing the galaxy, Bruna races against the clock to uncover a nuclear power conspiracy that threatens all sentient beings
- Edition: 2016
FÉLIX J. PALMA:
- The Map of Time: A Novel
- Author: Félix J. Palma
- Publisher: Atria Books
- Translated by: Nick Caistor
- Abstract: What happens if we change history? Félix J. Palma explores this provocative question, weaving a historical fantasy as imaginative as it is exciting—a story full of love and adventure that transports readers from a haunting setting in Victorian London to a magical reality where centuries collide and a writer’s mind
- Edition: 2011
- The Map of the Sky: A Novel
- Author: Félix J. Palma
- Publisher: Atria Books
- Translated by: Nick Caistor
- Abstract: 1898. New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry well-to-do Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he first accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the Martian invasion featured in H. G. Wells’s popular novel The War of the Worlds. Meanwhile in London, Wells himself is unexpectedly made privy to certain objects, apparently of extraterrestrial origin, that were discovered decades earlier on an ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic
- Edition: 2013
- The Map of Chaos: A Novel
- Author: Félix J. Palma
- Publisher: Atria Books
- Translated by: Nick Caistor
- Abstract: When the person he loves most dies in tragic circumstances, the mysterious protagonist does all he can to speak to her one last time. A session with a renowned medium seems to offer the only solution, but the experience unleashes terrible forces that bring the world to the brink of disaster. Salvation can only be found in The Map of Chaos, an obscure book that he is desperate to uncover
- Edition: 2015
- The Heart and Other Viscera: Stories
- Author: Félix J. Palma
- Publisher: Atria Books
- Translated by: Nick Caistor y Lorenza García con Melanie Iglesias
- Abstract: A young girl receives letters from her lost doll; a cat madly in love with her human neighbor; a man gives all of himself to the woman he loves, piece by piece. These are just a few of the unforgettable characters that inhabit Palma’s gorgeously wrought short story collection, by turns mesmerizing, morbid, and melancholy. It contains selections from three previously published anthologies, bringing together some of Palma’s most celebrated stories
- Edition: 2019
MANUEL DE PEDROLO:
- Typescript of the Second Origin
- Author: Manuel de Pedrolo
- Publisher: University Press of New England
- Translated by: Sara Martín
- Abstract: The novel tells the story of two children who survive the brutal destruction of Earth by alien explorers. The protagonists, Alba and Dídac, retreat to the forest, then journey to the rubble of Barcelona to rescue and preserve the remnants of human civilization in the city’s bombed libraries and cultural institutions. In the absence of the rule of law and social norms, the children create a utopian world of two that honors knowledge and interracial love, to become a new Adam and Eve and try to bring about the world’s second origin
- Edition: March, 2018
JOAN PERUCHO:
- Natural History: A novel
- Author: Joan Perucho
- Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc. & Ballantine Books
- Translated by:
- Abstract: Antoni Mantpalau, a young Spanish aristocrat of the early 1800s, agrees to aid a village beset by an evil force and is stalked by a thirteenth-century vampire until their final, bloody confrontation
- Edition: 1988
LOLA ROBLES:
- Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist
- Author: Lola Robles
- Publisher: Aqueduct Press
- Translated by: Lawrence Schimel
- Abstract: Novel follows Terran scholar Rachel Monteverde’s journeys on Aanuk, a paradisiacal planet. The Aanukians are not the only people on the planet, however: Rachel is eager to meet the Fidhia, a cave-dwelling people who share a congenital condition that makes them blind
- Edition: 2016
TAMARA ROMERO:
- Her Fingers
- Author: Tamara Romero
- Publisher: Eraserhead Press
- Translated by: Tamara Romero
- Abstract: A red-haired witch with steel fingers, dragged unconscious from the currents of the Adrenaline River. An isolated researcher suffering from a disease called, the Gag. Covens of stoned witches dancing to techno in the forest. A punk whose specialty is replacing body parts with metal replicas. A lyrical, dark and charming bizarro story of intrigue and discovery from a dimension just beyond ours
- Edition: 2012
ALBERT SÁNCHEZ PIÑOL:
- Cold Skin
- Author: Albert Sánchez Piñol
- Publisher: Canongate U.S.
- Translated by: Cheryl Leah Morgan
- Abstract: Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a “weather official” on a tiny, remote island on the edges of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. At first adversaries, the two find that their tenuous partnership may be the only way they survive the unspeakably horrific reptilian creatures that ravage the island at night
- Edition: 2007
- Pandora in the Congo
- Author: Albert Sánchez Piñol
- Publisher: Penguin Canada
- Translated by: Mara Faye Lethem
- Abstract: It is 1914 when Marcus Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the depths of the Belgian Congo. He is the sole survivor of an ill-fated mining expedition in which both his masters, William and Richard Craver, died and from which their African porters fled. Garvey returns to London carrying two diamonds of extraordinary size, spinning a story too unspeakably terrifying to be believed
- Edition: 2009
JAIME SANTAMARÍA DE LA TORRE:
- Sun from Another World
- Author: Jaime Santamaría de la Torre
- Publisher: Babelcube
- Translated by: Carlos Araque Melgar
- Abstract: Year 2854, the Earth leaves the dark centuries that followed a pandemic that decimated humanity. The space race has finally resumed. After graduating as a space pilot, Michael Smith begins a trip to Mars on a rescue mission ignoring that route will take him to the Bidena Galaxy. There, the human race has restarted an ancestral conflict in which our protagonist will be immersed
- Edition: March 2020
CARLOS SISÍ:
- The Wanderers
- Author: Carlos Sisí
- Publisher: Permuted Press
- Translated by:
- Abstract: The city of Malaga is dead, but the promised eternal rest has yet to come to its inhabitants. In the Carranque camp, thirty survivors have built a shelter to keep out the dangers of the world. They fight not only to recover the city, but also the physical and mental degradation of surviving day to day after the pandemic
- Edition: 2011
JOSÉ CARLOS SOMOZA:
- The Art of Murder
- Author: Jose Carlos Somoza
- Publisher: Abacus
- Translated by:
- Abstract: In 2006, the art world has moved far beyond sheep in formaldehyde and the most avant-garde movement is to use living people as artwork. Undergoing weeks of preparation to become 'canvases', the models are required to stay in their pose for ten to twelve hours a day and, as art pieces, they are also for sale. But there is a darker side to this art movement when it is found that the models/works of art are sometimes used in interactive works - snuff movies, where the 'art' is filmed being tortured and killed
- Edition: 2005
- Zig Zag: A Novel
- Author: Jose Carlos Somoza
- Publisher: Harper
- Translated by: Lisa Dillman
- Abstract: While studying advanced physics at a prestigious European university, Elisa Robledo was invited to join a select research team on a secret project to manipulate String Theory. But the team's experiments went horribly awry... and something terrible was awakened. Now, years later, Elisa's former colleagues are dying, one by one. The nightmare they created by meddling with Time is taking a shocking and gruesome toll
- Edition: 2008
ÁNGEL LUIS SUCASAS:
- Moon Scars
- Author: Ángel Luis Sucasas
- Publisher: Nevsky Books
- Translated by: James and Marian Womack
- Abstract: In his stories, in which high literature meets videogames and comics, and where Tarantino runs alongside the geometric nightmares dreamt up by Lovecraft, Angel Luis Sucasas goes against the flow of conventional fantasy and offers us the heightened vision of a powerful and singular imagination. Werewolves, revenge, unexpected love and dystopian societies in which Peter Pan rubs shoulders with The Walking Dead this collection illuminates new worlds of fantastic reach, daring us to travel beyond our comfort zones
- Edition: 2017
CARME TORRAS:
- The Vestigial Heart: A Novel of the Robot Age
- Author: Carme Torras
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Translated by: Josephine Swarbrick
- Abstract: A thirteen-year-old girl wakes up in a future where human emotions are extinct and people rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life. Winner of the X Manuel de Pedrolo Award
- Edition: 2018
MARIAN WOMACK:
- Lost Objects
- Editor: Marian Womack
- Publisher: Luna Press
- Abstract: These stories explore place and landscape at different stages of decay, positioning them as fighting grounds for death and renewal. From dystopian Andalusia to Scotland or the Norfolk countryside, they bring together monstrous insects, ghostly lovers, soon-to-be extinct species, unexpected birds, and interstellar explorers, to form a coherent narrative about loss and absence
- Edition: July 2018
SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FROM ARGENTINA:
- Ficciones
- Author: Jorge Luis Borges
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Translated by:
- Abstract: These seventeen pieces demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges’s genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal’s abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return
- Edition: 1994
- Bodies of Summer
- Author: Martin Felipe Castagnet
- Publisher: Open Letter
- Translated by: Frances Riddle
- Abstract: The existence of an afterlife is now a fact: heaven is the internet. Death is only an interruption as souls can be uploaded to the web and new bodies can be purchased by those wishing to reenter the physical world. Castagnet walks us through a stifling new version of reality where sex, gender, identity, religion, and politics are defined by the limitless possibilities of the human bodyhis death
- Edition: 2017
- The Bottom of the Sky
- Author: Rodrigo Fresán
- Publisher: Open Letter
- Translated by: Will Vanderhyden
- Abstract: At its core, The Bottom of the Sky is a novel about two young boys in love with other planets and a disturbingly beautiful girl. An homage to the history of American science fiction, it’s also about the Gulf War, 9/11, and a mysterious “incident.” It’s like a Kurt Vonnegut novel told by David Lynch through the lens of Philip K. Dick
- Edition: 2018
- Kalpa imperial
- Author: Angélica Gorodischer
- Publisher: Small Beer Press
- Translated by: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Abstract: In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories. Translation by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Edition: 2003
- Trafalgar
- Author: Angélica Gorodischer
- Publisher: Small Beer Press
- Translated by: Amalia Gladhart
- Abstract: Don't rush Trafalgar Medrano when he starts telling you about his latest intergalactic sales trip. He likes to stretch things out over precisely seven coffees. No one knows whether he actually travels to the stars, but he tells the best tall tales in the city, so why doubt him?
- Edition: 2013
- Prodigies
- Author: Angélica Gorodischer
- Publisher: Small Beer Press
- Translated by: Sue Burke
- Abstract: Prodigies explores the story of the poet Novalis's birthplace in the German town of Weissenfels after it is converted into a boarding house. Moving, subtle, and full of wit, irony, and dreams, this novel fills the house with the women who lived there throughout the nineteenth century, and across the flow of history constructs the secret drama of their destinies
- Edition: 2015
- Memory
- Author: Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría
- Publisher: Upper Rubber Boot Books
- Translated by: Lawrence Schimel
- Abstract: Memory explores the nature of oppression, genetic engineering, non-binary relationships, and—you guessed it—memory, on a colony on a terraformed Mars
- Edition: 2015
SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FROM BOLIVIA:
- Turing's Delirium
- Author: Edmundo Paz Soldán
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- Translated by: Lisa Carter
- Abstract: The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel “Turing” Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit of the Chamber’s latest target: Kandinsky, a “cyberhacktivist”. As Turing finds himself drawn into a web of murder, intrigue, and deception, he begins to suspect that his work is not as innocent as he once believed
- Edition: 2007
SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FROM CUBA:
- The Island of Eternal Love
- Author: Daína Chaviano
- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- Translated by: Andrea G. Labinger
- Abstract: Alone in a city that haunts her, far from her family, her history, and the island she left behind, Cecelia seeks refuge in a bar in Little Havana where a mysterious old woman's fascinating tale keeps Cecelia returning night after night. Her powerful story of long-vanished epochs weaves the saga of three families from far-flung pieces of the world whose connection forms the kind of family that Cecelia has long been missing-one cast from legendary, unbreakable love
- Edition: 2008
- A Legend of the Future
- Author: Agustín de Rojas
- Publisher: Restless Books
- Translated by: Nick Caistor
- Abstract: The father of Cuban Science Fiction takes place inside a spaceship on a mission to Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, while back on Earth, warring super powers threaten the fate of humanity. When the ship malfunctions on the return journey, the crewmembers must face their innermost fears amidst experiments in psychological and emotional conditioning and aliens that may or may not be real
- Edition: 2015
- A Planet for Rent
- Author: Yoss
- Publisher: Restless Books
- Translated by: David Frye
- Abstract: Yoss critiques ‘90s Cuba by drawing parallels with a possible Earth of the not-so-distant future. Wracked by economic and environmental problems, the desperate planet is rescued, for better or worse, by alien colonizers, who remake the planet as a tourist destination. Ruled over by a brutal interstellar bureaucracy, dispossessed humans seek better lives via the few routes available
- Edition: 2015
- The Year 200
- Author: Agustín de Rojas
- Publisher: Restless Books
- Translated by: Nick Caistor and Hebe Powell
- Abstract: Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash “abnormal” attitudes such as romantic love. When the Empire returns, the world’s fate falls into the hands of two brave women
- Edition: 2016
- Super Extra Grande
- Author: Yoss
- Publisher: Restless Books
- Translated by: David Frye
- Abstract: 2017 Philp K. Dick Award finalist. In a distant future in which Latin Americans have pioneered faster-than-light space travel, Dr. Jan Amos Sangan Dongo has a job with large and unusual responsibilities: he’s a veterinarian who specializes in treating enormous alien animals. When a colonial conflict threatens the fragile peace between the galaxy’s seven intelligent species, he must embark on a daring mission through the insides of a gigantic creature and find two swallowed ambassadors—who also happen to be his competing love interests
- Edition: 2016
SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:
- Wicked Weeds: A Zombie Novel
- Author: Pedro Cabiya
- Publisher: Mandel Vilar Press
- Translated by: Jessica Powell
- Abstract: Set at the contact zones between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this is a polyphonic novel, an intense and sometimes funny pharmacopeia of love lost and humanity regained; a most original combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction addressing issues of global relevance including novel takes on ecological/apocalyptical imbalance bound to make an impact
- Edition: 2016
SHORT FICTION AVAILABLE ONLINE:
The infestation (excerpt) by Felicidad Martínez at Spanish Women of Wonder (2017)
Techt (excerpt) by Sofía Rhei at Spanish Women of Wonder (2017)
Summer in Amber by Susana Vallejo at Persistent Visions (2016)
Gracia by Susana Vallejo in Strange Horizons (Oct 31, 2016)
Esmeralda by Tamara Romero in Strange Horizons (Oct 31, 2016)
Terpsichore by Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría in Strange Horizons (Oct 14, 2016)
Bluebeard Possibilities by Sofia Rhei in Speculative Fiction in Translation (Sept 5, 2016)
Orange dogs by Marian Womack in Weird Fiction review (Oct 19, 2015). Reprint in Year's Best Weird Fiction vol.3
The Beginning in the End by Sergio Parra in 'Journeys Through Time and Space: A Tomorow Project Anthology' edited by Ed Finn and G. Pascal Zachary (Sep 29, 2015)
Black Isle by Marian Womack in SuperSonic (Jul 31, 2015)
Reversible cities by Sofia Rhei in Talisman (2014)
The Texture of Words by Felicidad Martínez in 'Terra Nova: An Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Science Fiction' (Jun 21, 2013)
Eternal return by Rodolfo Martínez in The World SF Blog (March 5, 2013)
The Golden Line of the Horizon Poetry by Sofia Rhei in Strange Horizons (Aug 6, 2012)
RELATED ARTICLES ONLINE:
Spanish-speaking writers are producing ambitious science fiction and fantasy. Let these books be your introduction by Lavie Tidhar & Silvia Moreno-Garcia in The Washington Post (September 21, 2020)
Spanish-speaking writers are producing ambitious science fiction and fantasy. Let these books be your introduction by Lavie Tidhar & Silvia Moreno-Garcia in The Independent (September 27, 2020)
Two Spanish SF Classics by Mariano Villarreal in Speculative Fiction in Traslation (Nov, 2017)
Spanish SF in the 21st Century by Mariano Villarreal in Speculative Fiction in Traslation (Nov, 2017). Article published in the magazine of EuroCon Barcelona (Nov, 2016)
Introduction. Spanish SF: A Phantom Genre by Sara Martin in Science Fiction Studies #132 (July, 2017). Abstracts of some articles on Spanish SF
Spanish Science Fiction by Science Fiction Encyclopedia (July 21, 2016)
Elements of the Fantastic: Elia Barceló & Ricard Ruiz Garzón in Conversation in Strange Horizons (Oct 31, 2016)
Science Fiction in the Spanish University by Sara Martín in Alambique (2016)
Spain's science fiction and its history by Alejandro Mohorte and José Nieto in The Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation (Sept 1, 2015)
The Invention of Speculative Fiction in Spain by Cristina Jurado in APEX Magazine (Sept 9, 2015)
Spanish Science Fiction: A Round Table Discussion with Spain's Top Contemporary Voices by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro in Clarkesworld (Apr 3, 2015)
Spain: A New Playground for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by Cristina Jurado in Europa SF (Apr 24, 2014)
Science Fiction from Spain (excerpt) by Mariano Villarreal in Europa SF (Jul 3, 2013)
Spanish science fiction by Enforex (2013)
Pulp Science Fiction in Spain, Before And During Totalitarianism by Jess Nevins in io9 (Jan 1, 2013)
Spanish Science Fiction by Wikipedia (May, 2011)
