{"id":9906,"date":"2013-06-30T18:14:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T16:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=9906"},"modified":"2013-08-08T18:18:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T16:18:51","slug":"ana-antonescu-and-the-new-series-of-the-anticipatia-issue-1-6-collection-of-sf-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=9906","title":{"rendered":"Ana Antonescu and the new series of the Anticipa\u0163ia (issue 1-6) Collection of SF Short-Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

(a reader’s guide to fantasy)<\/font><\/p>\n

by Oliviu Crâznic
\ntranslation from Romanian by Alina-Olimpia Miron
\n 
\nclick aici<\/a> pentru versiunea rom\u00e2n\u0103\n<\/p>\n

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\nAn exceptional phenomenon for the lovers of fantasy literature occurred in the fall of 2012 thanks to Nemira Publishing: the revival of the Anticipa\u0163ia<\/i> Almanac <\/i>and the magazine Collection of SF Short-Stories<\/i> (book form, monthly issue and a very low price, around 9.9 RON or, in sales season, even lower) whose special issues address not only lovers of SF, but also those of fantasy or supernatural horror. The Almanac<\/i>\u2019s \u2013 very professionally made \u2013 first issue comprises mainly non-fiction articles connected to the SF field (otherwise, incredibly interesting), but also SF prose (short-stories signed by Roberto Quaglia, Sebastian Corn, Liviu Radu, Aurel C\u0103r\u0103\u015fel, D\u0103nu\u0163 Ungureanu, Marian Tru\u0163\u0103, Oliviu Cr\u00e2znic). Before we go deeper into the Collection of SF Short-Stories<\/i>, I would like to say a few words of appreciation about editor-in-chief Ana Antonescu\u2019s activity \u2013 as you\u2019ll immediately see, Ana is the excellent coordinator of a project that has so far succeeded in rising to particularly high standards on all levels, from price accessibility and exposure to the professional content selection and the wonderful covers (starting with issue 3) done by Tudor Popa, one of the few deserving Romanian illustrators (the illustrations in question depict scenes from the short-stories covered in that very issue of CSFSS! \u2013 an extremely rare thing on the Romanian book market).<\/p>\n

And now, let\u2019s take a look at the content of the first 6 issues of the Collection of SF Short-Stories <\/i>in order to better understand the reasons for the above statements \u2013 a brief presentation will suffice and will bear the absolute value of a demonstration.<\/p>\n

Thus, under the aegis \u201eCSFSS \u2013 the new series\u201d, one can read short-stories and novelettes signed by renowned foreign and Romanian authors, grouped in two per issue (except for the inaugural issue which contains only prose signed by Peter Watts): Allen M. Steele (The Emperor of Mars<\/i>) and Cristian Mihail Teodorescu (Sensoria<\/i>) \u2013 CSFSS issue 2, George R.R. Martin (In the lost lands<\/i>) and Oliviu Cr\u00e2znic (Lenore Arras<\/i>) \u2013 CSFSS issue 3 (special \u201eDark Fantasy\u201d issue), Hannu Rajaniemi (Elegy for a young elk<\/i>) and D\u0103nu\u0163 Ungureanu (The Chronicles of the Iridium People<\/i>) \u2013 CSFSS issue 4, Ted Chiang (The Merchant and the Alchemist\u2019s Gate<\/i>) and Liviu Radu (Galloping through the pyramid<\/i>) \u2013 CSFSS issue 5, Stephen King & Joe Hill (In the tall grass<\/i>) and \u015etefana Czeller (Dark Waters<\/i>) \u2013 CSFSS issue 6 (special \u201eHorror\u201d issue). Furthermore, there are articles on SF theory, criticism and literary history, but also on the popularization of science and interviews signed by Stephen Hawking, Alexandru Mironov, Mircea Opri\u0163\u0103, Oliviu Cr\u00e2znic, Ana Nicolau, Liviu Radu, Cristian Tama\u015f (Cristian Tama\u015f\u2019s study on the time travel theme in literature is highly useful), Mircea Pric\u0103jan, Mihnea Columbeanu and others.<\/p>\n

Two studies on literary history and theory are of great interest in our series: Oliviu Cr\u00e2znic \u2013 Dark Fantasy Literature<\/i> and Mircea Pric\u0103jan \u2013 Horror Literature<\/i>. Why these two studies? For a very simple reason: both of them also analyze Romanian fantasy and horror authors. More specifically, among the \u201edark fantasy\u201d authors there are: Costi Gurgu (Re\u0163etarium<\/i>, The Swamps of the South<\/i>, The Saints\u2019 Hotel<\/i>, Rash Seed<\/i>, The Stone Cry<\/i>, The Gods\u2019 Complaint<\/i>, Beyond the Lighthouse at World\u2019s End<\/i>), \u015etefana Czeller (Long\u2019s the road to grey<\/i>), Ana-Maria Negril\u0103 (The Song of Dawn<\/i>), Bogdan Tudor Bucheru (The Inheritance<\/i>), Liviu Radu (Sword Blade<\/i>, The Agreement<\/i>, The Descendants<\/i>, Gossip before Battle<\/i>, Night Shrink<\/i>, The Solitude of the Night<\/i>), C\u0103t\u0103lina Fometici (Sunrise<\/i>), and Oliviu Cr\u00e2znic with the exemplifying novelette Lenore Arras<\/i> from the respective CSFSS issue; regarding the \u201ehorror\u201d genre, Mircea Pric\u0103jan mentions several important Romanian authors (I.L. Caragiale \u2013 The Easter Torch<\/i>, Cezar Petrescu, G. Galaction \u2013 C\u0103lifar\u2019s Mill<\/i>, M. Eminescu \u2013 The Genii<\/i>, V. Voiculescu, M. Eliade, Pavel Dan, Radu \u0162uculescu \u2013 The Microwave Oven<\/i>, M. C\u0103rt\u0103rescu \u2013 The Twins<\/i>, Blinding<\/i>, O. Nimigean \u2013 Mortido<\/i>, Liviu Radu \u2013 Terror<\/i>, Sergiu Some\u015fan \u2013 The Number of the Beast<\/i>, Mircea Pric\u0103jan \u2013 In the Full Shadow of Reality<\/i>, Victor Dragomir \u2013 The Face in the Ashes<\/i>, Oliviu Cr\u00e2znic \u2013 …And in the end there was the nightmare<\/i>, \u015etefana Czeller \u2013 Ink and Blood<\/i>, Ciprian Mitoceanu, A.R. Deleanu \u2013 The Water Whisperer<\/i>, Anna Vary \u2013 The Last Witch from Transylvania<\/i>, Cristina Nemerovschi \u2013 Satanic Blood<\/i>, Florin Irima \u2013 A Dark Window<\/i>, \u015etefan Bolea \u2013 Gothic<\/i>). Furthermore, Mircea Pric\u0103jan mentions several authors who have yet to be published and are trying their hand at the \u201ehorror\u201d genre in various publications, as well as two thematic anthologies published by Millenium Books (Beyond the night \u2013 12 Faces of the Gothic,<\/i> editor Oliviu Cr\u00e2znic, and Zombies \u2013 The Book of the Living Dead<\/i>, editor Mircea Pric\u0103jan).<\/p>\n

What\u2019s truly interesting is that some authors appear in both studies (Liviu Radu, Oliviu Cr\u00e2znic, \u015etefana Czeller and C\u0103t\u0103lina Fometici), and the two anthologies mentioned have several names in common (Liviu Radu, George Laz\u0103r, Ciprian Mitoceanu, Oliviu Cr\u00e2znic, Laura Sorin, Narcisa Stoica), which proves the existence of some authors focused on these connected fields and, not haphazardly, \u201edrawn\u201d to them.<\/p>\n

Once again, congratulations to Nemira Publishing and Ana Antonescu for what they offer the Romanian fantasy readers: quality, professionalism, Western standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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