Spanish science fiction

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Science fiction in Spanish-language literature has its roots in authors such as Antonio de Guevara with The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius (1527), Miguel de Cervantes in Don Quixote, Anastasio Pantaleón de Ribera's Vejamen de la luna (Satirical tract on the Moon, 1626/1634), Luis Vélez de Guevara's El Diablo Cojuelo (The Limping Devil, 1641) and Antonio Enríquez Gómez's La torre de Babilonia (The Tower of Babylon).

In the 20th century, magazines such as Nueva Dimensión and Narraciones Terroríficas (the Spanish-language version of Weird Tales) popularized science fiction among Spanish speakers worldwide.

History

special effects by Segundo de Chomón, can be considered the first Spanish science fiction film, even though the film was made for Pathé
.

Spanish science fiction starts mid 19th century; depending on how it is defined, Lunigrafía (1855) from

El anacronópete
 (1887), a story about time travel that predates the publication of The Chronic Argonauts by H. G. Wells; Rafael Zamora y Pérez de Urría's Crímenes literarios (1906), that describes robots and a "brain machine" very similar to our modern laptops; or Frederich Pujulà i Vallès' Homes artificials (1912), the first Science Fiction book in Catalan, and the first in Spain about "artificial people".[4][5] But the most prolific were Coronel Ignotus, and Coronel Sirius, who published their adventures in the magazine Biblioteca Novelesco-Científica. The 19th century literature up to the Spanish Civil War saw no less than four fictional trips to the Moon, one to Venus, five to Mars, one to Jupiter, and one to Saturn.[4][6]

The

radio serial for children Diego Valor; inspired by Dan Dare, the serial produced 1200 episodes of 15 min., and spun a comic (1954-1964), three theater plays (1956-1959) and the first Spanish Science Fiction TV series (1958), that has been lost.[10]

Modern, prospective, self-aware science fiction crystallized in the 1970s around the magazine Nueva Dimensión (1968-1983), and its editor Domingo Santos, one of the most important Spanish Science Fiction authors of the time.[6][4] Other important authors of the 70s and 80s are Manuel de Pedrolo (Mecanoscrit del segon origen, 1974), Carlos Saiz Cidoncha (La caída del Imperio galáctico, 1978), Rafael Marín (Lágrimas de luz, 1984), and Juan Miguel Aguilera (the Akasa-Puspa saga, 1988-2005).[4] In the 1990s the genre exploded with the creation many small dedicated fanzines, important Science Fiction prizes, and the convention HispaCon; Elia Barceló (El mundo de Yarek, 1992), became the most prolific, and possibly the best Science Fiction author from Spain.[4] Other recent authors are Eduardo Vaquerizo (Danza de tinieblas, 2005), Félix J. Palma (The Victorian trilogy, 2008-2014), and Carlos Sisí (Panteón, 2013).[11]

Spain has been continuously producing Science Fiction films since the 1960s, at a rate of 5 to 10 per decade. The 1970s was specially prolific; the director, and screenwriter

Plutón BRB Nero
(2008-2009), should also be mentioned.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Género literario: ciencia ficción española". Enforex (in Spanish). Retrieved 2016-02-06.
  2. ^ Ayala, Mª de los Ángeles (1996-10-26). "La obra narrativa de Enrique Gaspar: El Anacronópete (1887)". Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (in Spanish). Retrieved 2016-02-07.
  3. ^ Uribe, Augusto. "Una temporada en el más bello de los planetas. La primera novela española de ciencia ficción: Un viaje a Saturno en el siglo [XIX]". Viajes espaciales en globo del siglo XIX.
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    ISBN 978-84-376-3337-4
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  5. ^ Uribe, Augusto. "Los Hombres artificiales de Pujulà". La web de Augusto Uribe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2016-02-07.
  6. ^ a b "Spain". TheEncyclopedia of Science Fiction. 2016-07-21. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
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  8. ^ Canalda, José Carlos. "La gran historia de las novelas de a duro". Página personal de José Carlos Canalda (in Spanish). Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  9. ^ "Science Fiction Awards". Eurocon 78: Bruxelles/Brussel - Belgium. European Science Fiction Society. Retrieved 2012-09-17.
  10. ^ Merelo Solá, Alfonso (2009). La radionovela de ciencia ficción española: "Historias para imaginar" (in Spanish). Vol. XIV. pp. 139–154. Retrieved 2016-02-13. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  11. ^ Gómez-Jurado, Juan (2015-11-08). "La nueva ciencia ficción española" (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  12. ^ Jiménez, Jesús (2012-02-18). "La ciencia ficción, un género tan raro en el cine español como estimulante". rtve. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  13. ^ Merelo, Alfonso (2004-12-14). "El cine de ciencia ficción en españa: Una aproximación". Ciencia-ficcion.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2016-02-13.

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