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Many readers and critics possessing only a superficial acquaintance with Latin
American science fiction erroneously assume theworks tobe mere variations of
the more prestigious genres, magical realism and the literary fantastic.
(Oftentimes, thismisperception is fueled by publishers, who are unconvinced of
themarket appeal of a book labeled "science fiction.") Any foray into the
speculative thatcomes from Latin America runs the risk of being classified as
either magical realism or the fantastic, as if those genres were somehow
endemic and unavoidable. The term "sf" has now become internationally
accepted, however, and is widely used, sometimes to differentiate subgenres
within the overall rubric of the fantastic and at other, less fortunate times, to
label those works as "sub-literature." Although we use the designation "sf"
here, we must point out that sf is often intertwinedwith other speculative forms
inLatin America (most commonly horror and the fantastic). Historically, in the
absence of sustained attention from the literaryestablishment, Latin American
writers have been free to disregard themore stringentgenre boundaries that
shaped early sf production in the US. Therefore, this and any chronology of
Latin American sf will of necessity include texts not always or exclusively
identifiable as science fiction, especially to readers accustomed toworks from
parts of theworld with more established sf traditions and stronger ties to the
critical and market sectors.
The objective of this Chronology is to continue to inventory this type of
cultural production in Latin America and to present ithere inEnglish for the
first time. An earlier version was published inNovember 2000 in Chasqui, a
journal devoted to Latin American literary criticism. That first attempt was
written in Spanish and included coverage of regional works published between
*
1775-1999. While we have expanded this version of theChronology into the
twenty-firstcentury, we are nonetheless aware that itmay still be incomplete
and welcome additional titles for a future edition.
The selection criteria do not necessarily imply aesthetic or other value
judgments. Generally, this compilation does not include forms of the sf genre
such as poetry, film scripts, films, or comic books. The only exceptions are
indicated in the text.The Chronology ismostly organized by country and year
of publication, and the term "Latin American" ismeant to indicate the authors'
nationalities as well as the original language of the fictional works?that is,
either Spanish or Portuguese. If an author is classified under "Argentina," for
example, inmost cases this designates his or her country of origin. In some
instances, authors are listed under the countries where they spentmost of their
lives or where theirworks were published, rather thanunder the countries where
theywere born. Such is the case of Alfredo Cardona Pena, who was born in
Costa Rica in 1917 but whose works are listed under Mexico, where he lived
and worked until his death in 1995; such is also the case of Rene Rebetez, a
Colombian who lived and published inMexico formany years. If the author
published the work under a pseudonym, his or her real name is indicated in
square brackets thefirst time thepseudonym appears?for example, S. Fragoso
Lima [pseud, of Horacio Quiroga]?and thereafter is omitted. Novels and short
story collections are indicated by italics; the titles of short stories are given in
quotation marks. Some short stories have been listed individually in order to
highlight their importance; whenever possible, we have included the titlesof the
collections, anthologies, or magazines inwhich theywere first published. A
collection of short stories by either single or multiple authors is indicated in
parentheses as "(anth)."
Titles of magazines or fanzines from each country are listed following the
fictional works. They are organized chronologically according to the years in
"
which thosemagazines were incirculation (e.g., 1998-99")- In cases where the
magazine in question is still being published, this is indicated by a dash
following the date itfirst appeared (e.g., "1998- "). The number of issues is
shown in parentheses whenever possible. Some of the listedmagazines are not
sfmagazines proper but have published special issues on the genre. In these
cases, this informationappears inparentheses next to thename of themagazine.
Meriting its own subsection within the Chronology is the Spanish-language
magazine Nueva dimension, edited inSpain from 1968 to 1982, which published
thework of many Latin American sf authors throughout its 148 issues.2
The section entitled "Essays" includes critical works about Latin American
sfwritten in any language, as well as academic articles written in Spanish or
Portuguese thatdeal with sf in general. The bibliographical information about
primary texts has been kept to a minimum for reasons of space; the critical
works, however, are listedwith complete bibliographical information. For the
benefit of those who do not read Spanish or Portuguese, we have included a
section that lists sfworks available inEnglish translation.
Finally, the sections entitled "The Caribbean," "Mexico," "Central
America," "Colombia," "Venezuela," "Bolivia," "Peru," "Brazil,"
Daina Chaviano in Spain, Mexico, and the US. With Cuba still strong and
Puerto Rico emerging as a contender, sf in theCaribbean looks healthier today
than ithas ever been.
Mexico
Mexican science fiction has a long, though rather uneven, two-hundred-year
history thatcan be divided intofive distinct periods. The first, theprecursor era,
spans more than a century, beginning in 1775 with a philosophical short story
by Manuel Antonio de Rivas, a Franciscan friarwho imagined a trip to the
Moon as a prologue to his astronomical almanac. Almost 70 years later,
Sebastian Camacho Zulueta (under thepseudonym Fosforos Cerillos) offered his
vision of Mexico in the year 1970 as a model nation whose main method of
transportwas balloons. In 1849 Geronimo del Castillo Lenard also imagined his
countrymen in the twentieth century transported by balloons and ruled by a
monarch. From 1861 to 1871, writers such as Juan Nepomuceno Adorno,
Nicolas Pizarro, and Ignacio M. Altamirano sympathized with a liberal party
bent on preventing religion from hindering progress; these writers produced
Utopian works in which religion and technological advances joined forces to
ensure material progress. Pedro Castera celebrated the new popularity of
Comptian positivism in "Un viaje celeste" [A Celestial Trip, 1872] and his best
novel, Querens (1890), deals with the effects of mesmerism and hypnosis on
human will and our ability to reason.
The second period, from 1900 to 1939, is characterized by a clear interest
in improving the literaryquality of thegenre. To do this,Mexican writers found
ithelpful to follow foreignmodels such as Verne, Flammarion, andWells. The
most acclaimed writer of this period isAmado Nervo, who contributed to the
genre with poems such as "El gran viaje" [The Great Voyage, 1917] and such
excellent short stories as "La ultima guerra" [The Last War, c. 1900], where he
speculates about animal evolution into thefifty-sixthcentury. Other noteworthy
writers of the period are Carlos Toro, who imagined a global disaster brought
about by Halley's Comet in "En los dias del cometa" [In theDays of theComet,
c. 1910]; Martin Luis Guzman, who presents an intelligentmachine able to
en 1917"
predict the consequences ofWorld War I in "Como acab6 la guerra
[How theWar Ended in 1917, 1917]; and Julio Torri, with two stories also
published in 1917, "La conquista de la Luna" [The Conquest of theMoon] and
"Era un pais pobre" [ItWas a Poor Country]. The novel Eugenia: Esbozo
novelesco de costumbresfuturas [Eugenia: A Fictional Outline of Future Mores,
1919], by Eduardo Urzaiz Rodriguez, is an optimistic forerunner of Aldous
Huxley's Brave New World (1932); and Felix F. Palavicini's jCastigo! Novela
mexicana de 1945 [Punishment! Mexican Novel of 1945, 1926] is the first
Mexican dystopia.
The next period, from 1940 to 1964, is one of consolidation thatbegins with
the work of H.G. Wells's most successful Mexican follower, Guillermo
Zarraga, who wrote under the pseudonym Diego Canedo. His first novel, El
a
referi cuenta nueve [The Referee Counts to Nine, 1942], is set in parallel
universe where theNazis have invaded Mexico. He followed thatfirstwork with
Central America
Science fiction inCentral America first emerged in thework of twoModernist
authors, Ruben Dario and Maximo Soto Hall. Nicaraguan-born Ruben Dario,
inhis commentary on H.G. Wells's sfworks, held that itwas Wells's aspiration
to connect the "miracle of science" to the "religious miracle," just as Dario
himself tried to do with his short story "Veronica," his closest approach to the
genre. This story,written in 1896, was later rewritten and published in 1911
under the title "La extrana muerte de Fray Pedro" [The Strange Death of Fray
Pedro] and deals with the consequences of a skeptical friar's X-ray experiments
on a consecrated Host. Guatemala's Maximo Soto Hall, in his 1899 novel El
Her Una sombra en el hielo [A Shadow in the Ice] is amystery set in2195 about
an abandoned underground polar research station and an enigmatic figure who
disappeared along with it.Finally, IvanMolina Jimenez is the only other Costa
Rican authorwho has managed topublish two recent short-storyanthologies, La
miel de los mudos y otros cuentos ticos de ciencia ficcion [The Honey of the
Mutes and Other Costa Rican Science Fiction Stories, 2003] and El alivio de las
nubes ymas cuentos ticos de ciencia ficcion [The Relief of theClouds andMore
Costa Rican Science Fiction Stories, 2005].
Colombia
Colombia's literature is among the richest in theSpanish language, having given
us authors of the stature of Jose Eustasio Rivera, Jorge Isaacs, and Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, the grand master of magical realism. Yet science fiction
represents only a brief chapter in itshistory. Studies of the genre inColombia
are very rare, perhaps themost comprehensive of them being Ricardo Burgos
Lopez's "La narrativa de ciencia ficcion en Colombia" (2000) which is our
principal source of information for this introduction (see the full entrybelow in
"Studies in English on Latin American sf and studies on sf in Spanish and
Portuguese," 429).
Colombian sf s predecessors appeared toward the end of the nineteenth
century and at thebeginning of the twentieth: "Futura" (1896), a shortpoem by
the distinguished writer Jose Asuncion Silva, and "Bogota en el ano 2000"
[Bogota in theYear 2000, 1905], an exercise in social extrapolation by Soledad
Acosta de Samper. Over two decades would pass before another sfwork would
come to light: Una triste aventura de catorce sabios [A Sorrowful Tale of
Fourteen Wise Men, 1928], an episodic social satire by Jose Felix Fuenmayor.
The 1930s were years of political stability and industrialization inColombia
and, in that context, two new sf novels appeared. Barranquilla 2132, by Jose
Antonio Osorio Lizarazo, used the familiar trope of a man falling asleep only
to awaken two centuries later in a future thatmirrors his own social reality. In
the realm of pulp fiction and extraordinary voyages, we have Viajes
interplanetarios en zepelines que tendrdn lugar en el ano 2009 [Interplanetary
Zeppelin Voyages That Will Take Place in theYear 2009, 1936] byManuel F.
Sliger, of interestnow only to literaryhistorians.
The 1940s and 1950s marked the start of political violence and guerrilla
warfare inColombia, and most authors abandoned the emphasis on regionalism
thatprevailed in earlier times and adopted a more universal and experimental
narrative style. Sf smost prolific period began in the 1960s with authors such
as Rene Rebetez and Antonio Mora Velez, who openly identified theirwork as
science fiction. For much of his life,Rebetez (1933-99) lived outside his native
country, primarily inMexico. There he published a large part of his oeuvre,
a
beginning with Las ojos de la clepsidra [The Clepsydra's Eyes, 1964], volume
containing many sf stories and poems. Those of his sf stories that appeared in
La nueva prehistoria y otros cuentos [The New Prehistory and Other Stories,
1967], Ellos lo llaman amanecer [They Call itDawn, 1996], and Cuentos de
amor, terrory otros misterios [Stories of Love, Terror, and otherMysteries,
1998] are well known for incorporating elements of the genre's traditional
iconography intoamythic, latino-flavored environment. Rebetez's early literary
criticism was published inCiencia ficcion: la cuarta dimension de la literatura
[Science Fiction: Literature's Fourth Dimension, 1966].
Mora Velez, a poet and writer, remains si's chief proponent in
short-story
Colombia. He has published three sf anthologies?Glitza (1979), Eljuicio de los
dioses [The Judgmentof theGods, 1982], and Lorna es una mujer [Lorna is a
Woman, 1986]?in which he develops the genre's main themes to reflect a
certain candor and trust in scientific progress. His two recent collections of
poetry are Los caminantes del cielo [Travelers of the Heavens, 1999] and El
fuego de los dioses [The Fire of theGods, 2001].
Science fiction has not yetmanaged to establish itself inColombia as a genre
in its own right, however. Unfortunately, few Colombian sf texts really pass
critical muster and the country's top writers have, for a variety of reasons,
tended to avoid the genre.
Venezuela
The earliest example of Venezuelan science fiction, a short story by Julio
Garmendia titled "La realidad circundante" [The Reality Around Us, 1927],
proposed a device that would enable the user to adapt effortlessly to any
circumstance, be itphysical or psychological. Nothing could better proclaim the
arrival inVenezuela of thenew genre of science fiction. Almost a decade later,
in his novel La galera de Tiberio [Tiberius's Galley, 1938], Enrique Bernardo
Nunez described his nation's futurebymeans of an ironic and critical timeline
of the years to come.
We have no other record of Venezuelan sf until the end of the 1960s, when
the start of the space race between theUS and the Soviet Union triggered in
Venezuela?as ithad in other Latin American countries?a prolific increase in
the number of sf authors. Most of them engaged the genre only briefly,
examples being the anthology Quorum (1967) by David Alizo and the short
stories "Conspiracion en Neo-Ucronia" IConspiracy inNew Uchronia, 1967]
by Francisco de Venanzi, "Racine desde el aeropuerto" [Racine from the
Airport, 1970] by Jose Balza, and "Jinetesde la luz" [Riders of theLight, 1970]
by Humberto Mata. De Venanzi's and Balza's stories criticize their present
society from the distance of a technologically perfect country, while Mata's
story takes a nostalgic look at contemporary human achievements thatwil 1be
scorned or ignored in the future.
Luis Britto Garcia, better known as a university professor and writer of
mainstream literature,made his debut with the anthology Rajatabla [To the
Letter, 1970], which contains many sf stories representative of his sharp sense
of humor and his irony; itwas awarded the prestigious Casa de las Americas
prize, an honor also bestowed upon his laternovel Abrapalabra [Hocus Wordus,
1979]. His most recent incursions into the genre appear in the anthology, La
orgia imaginaria [The ImaginaryOrgy, 1983].
In 1979, Julio E. Miranda published thefirst anthology of Venezuelan sf as
part of the "Libros de Hoy" collection sponsored by thenewspaper El Diario de
Bolivia
The two earliest examples of speculative fiction in Bolivia were written by
women: Adela Zamudio's "El viaje" [The Trip, c. 1920] is included in her
anthology Cuentos breves [Short Stories, 1975] and "El occiso" [The Slain Man,
1937] is a collection of three stories byMaria Virginia Estenssoro. The next two
experiments with the genre come from the 1940s, 2487 (a.k.a. Utopia 2487,
n.d.) byWerner Pless and Victima de los siglos [Victim of theCenturies, n.d.]
by Alvaro Montenegro. As noted in an article on Bolivian science fiction
appearing at < elforastero.blogalia.com>, it is significant thatboth writers felt
they had to use a similar strategy to place their characters in a highly
technological world in the distant future.3 In 2487, the protagonist sleeps for
about 500 years and in Victima de los siglos his counterpart is frozen by gas
after an atomic bomb explosion and wakes up 5000 years later. In both cases,
the travelers' effortsat understanding the future serve as vehicles for reflecting
on the present.
It is difficult even tofind exact titles and publication dates for the few other
sf stories written before the 1990s. There are references to authors such as
Harry Marcus, Edmundo Carmargo, Roberto Leiton, and Marcela Gutierrez,
whose works are being rescued in part by themagazine Correveydile, but
otherwise they are very difficult to find. One author who excels in the genre is
Hugo Murillo Benich, winner of national awards for his anthology Paraiso
[Paradise, 1990] and his 1995 short story "El Supraespacio" [Superspace].
There are a few short stories cited inParaiso thatwere published during the
1990s, butmore concerted effortson thepart of both publishers and writers had
towait until thebeginning of the twenty-firstcentury. One of those effortswas
a contest sponsored by theUnited Nations that resulted in an anthology of sf
stories by young writers, published by Santillana in2001. Among them,we may
note Greg Mercado ("El Koan-Testador" [Tester-Koan]) and Nayra Corzon
("Cognitivo disidente" [Cognitive Dissenter]) as young writers to watch.4
Fortunately, itseems that thenew centurymay yet produce Bolivian sfworks
of greater quality and rooted in a more autochthonous cultural form, ifwe are
to judge by the novel El viaje [The Trip, 2001] by Rodrigo Antezana, which
Peru
The earliest examples of science fictionwritten inPeru are two short stories by
Clemente Palma published in the first decade of the twentieth century. "La
ultima rubia" [The Last Blonde, 1904] places an alchemist in the year 3000, and
"El dia tragico" [The Tragic Day, 1910] plays on people's fears of Halley's
Comet. After Palma, it is not until the 1950s that twomore Peruvian writers,
Eugenio Alarco, an academic, and Hector Velarde, a humorist, look to thegenre
for inspiration. Alarco's La magia de los mundos [The Magic of theWorlds,
1952] depicts a society where involuntaryorgan donation is a matter of routine;
it is considered by some to be a classic of the genre in Peru. Some critics have
appreciated the literary influence ofHomer, Dante, and Cervantes on thenovel' s
poetic style,while others consider itsgory content tobe ahead of its time. Itwas
published inBuenos Aires in 1952 and has a sequel, Los mortales [TheMortals,
1966]. Velarde's contribution to the genre is a series of humorous essays?"La
perra en el satelite" [The Bitch in the Satellite, 1958]?that have the space race
and the atomic age as background.
Just as in the rest of Latin America, Peruvian science fiction gained
considerable strengthduring the 1960s and 1970s, with two significant figures
emerging at this time, Jose B. Adolph and Juan Rivera Saavedra. Ironically,
although Adolph is considered the primary sf author associated with Peru, he
was born inGermany and only became a Peruvian citizen in 1974. His work has
been translated into several languages and included in anthologies in the US,
Europe, and Latin America. A good example of Adolph's style and a classic of
Peruvian science fiction is the short story "El falsificador" [The Falsifier, 1972]
inwhich Latin American history and myth are cleverly juxtaposed. Most of
Adolph's oeuvre uses the conventions of the genre, although he himself prefers
to use the term "speculative fiction." Rivera Saavedra, on the other hand,
preferred themore widely used term "science fiction" and indeed included it in
Brazil
In themid-nineteenth century,Brazilian authors begin writing tales of imaginary
societies and voyages into the future in themode of Verne and Flammarion.
These descriptive works, which have little real action and mostly passive
or
protagonists, deal with political reform through thedepiction of futureevents
societies, as in Joaquim Felicio dos Santos's Pdginas da Historia do Brasil
[Pages from Brazil's History, 1868-72] and Emilio Zaluar's novel O Doutor
Benignus [Dr. Benignus, 1875]. Beginning in the early part of the twentieth
century,works of this sort address more controversial topics, such as social and
agrarian reform, eugenics, and the social roles ofwomen. Utopian novels of this
Brazilian science fiction of the late 1960s and the 1970s can be divided into
two categories: narratives of the fantastic and dystopian novels. At this point,
almost all of the typical motifs of science fiction disappear, except for the
uncanny events of fantastic literature and the clockwork worlds of imaginary
technocratic regimes. Fantastic tales by Jose J. Veiga (A mdquina extraviada
[TheMisplaced Machine, 1968] and Sombras de Reis Barbudos [Shadows of the
Bearded Kings, 1972]) and by Murilo Rubiao (O pirotecnico Zacharias
[Zacharias, The Pyrotechnician, 1972]), includemotifs such as unfathomable
machines, unexplained appearances of animals inurban environments, unending
bureaucratic procedures, and Kafkaesque interrogations. In the 1970s, several
mainstream authors turned to dystopian fiction to avoid censorship by the
regime, disguising their critiques of its policies of fast-paced economic
development in their futuristic tales. As allegorical representations of Brazil
under military rule, these novels contain clear allusions to the regime's use of
censorship, media control, torture, imprisonment, and disappearances, tactics
of thepost-1968 crackdown bymilitary hardliners. The dystopian novels of the
period are characterized by a nostalgia for the past, especially in the idealized
portrayal of nature or women as repositories of authentic Brazilian identity,as
seen inworks such as Fazenda Modelo [Model Farm, 1974) by Chico Buarque,
Ofunciondrio Ruam [Ruam the StateWorker, 1975] byMauro Chaves, Ofruto
do vosso ventre [The Fruit of Thy Womb, 1976] by Herberto Sales, Asilo nas
tones [Asylum in theTowers, 1977] by Ruth Bueno, and Um dia vamos rir
disso tudo [Someday We Will Laugh about All This, 1976] by Maria Alice
Barroso. Recurrent themes include governmental regulation of reproduction and
sexual behavior, policies of modernization, the destruction of natural
environments, and control of themedia and the minds of citizens. In the
dystopian novels Umbra [Shadow, 1977)] by Plinio Cabral and Ndo verdspais
nenhum [And Still the Earth, 1981] by Ignacio de Loyola Brandao,
environmental degradation goes hand in hand with eroding personal freedoms
as Brazil faces the ecological and political consequences ofmilitary rule.
Coinciding with the end of the dictatorship in 1985, a new generation of
writers emerges and begins towrite in a wide variety of sf subgenres. In hard
science fiction, JorgeLuiz Calife's Horizonte de Eventos [Event Horizon, 1986]
and Roberto Schima's "Os fantasmas de Venus" [The Ghosts of Venus, 1993]
use outer space exploration and settlement to criticize the political and
environmental devastation caused by thedictatorship and itspolicies of economic
development. Other hard sf stories such as Fabio Fernandes's "Color Me Black"
(1998) and Carlos Orsi Martinho's "Pressao fatal" [Fatal Pressure, 2000] raise
as yet unresolved issues of race and gender within Brazilian society, which
persist despite technological advances in the future.Highlighting verbal play and
sensory overload made possible by computers, Brazil's cyberpunk introduces
elements of racial politics, sexuality, violence, and poverty to comment on social
and political changes takingplace inBrazil's urban culture. Brazilian cyberpunk
novels such as Silicone XXI (1988) by Alfredo Sirkis, Santa Clara Poltergeist
(1990) by Fausto Fawcett, and Piritas siderais [Outerspace Pyrites, 1993] by
Guilherme Kujawski use urban settings instead of cyberspace, stressing
Argentina
Argentina has a wide-ranging and richhistory of fantastic literature,particularly
of science fiction. The first example we can claim for the genre, "Delirio"
[Delirium], was published anonymously just before Argentina's Declaration of
Independence in 1816. This short story, an exercise in social and urban criticism
following thedicta of theFrench Revolution, is set in 1880 inBuenos Aires and
itsmain character is Tremebundo, a kind of superman who makes all sorts of
improvements in the city.
Many sfworks were written in the second half of the nineteenth century,
partly because of the political stability thathad been achieved after decades of
unrest and partly due to the creative impulse reigning in Buenos Aires society
at that time. Progressive liberalism, European Romanticism, "new sciences"
such as spiritualism and mesmerism, and the theoryof evolution all contributed
to the production of sfworks during thisperiod. The most prominent sfwriter
of the time was Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, with works such as Viaje
maravilloso del senor Nic-Nac [TheMarvelous Voyage ofMr. Nic-Nac, 1875]
and "Horacio Kalibang o los automatas" [Horacio Kalibang or theAutomatons,
1879], a work thatpredicts the advent of robots. Also worth mentioning from
that same period isEduardo de Escurra's Buenos Aires en el siglo XXX [Buenos
Aires in the 30th century, 1891] a work that reflects positivist thinking as it
relates to technological development.
During the first decades of the twentieth century, highly respected
Argentinian authors experimented with the genre, producing works of superior
literaryquality; these include Leopoldo Lugones's Las fiuerzas extranas [Strange
Forces, 1906] and Ricardo Rojas's La psiquina [The Psychine, 1917). There
were also some popular anarchist and socialist-Utopian works published at this
time, and La novelafantdstica, thefirstmagazine in Spanish entirely dedicated
to science fiction, was published inBuenos Aires in 1937.
La invencion deMorel [The Invention ofMorel] by Adolfo Bioy Casares was
published in 1940; this is a key novel inArgentinian literature and one of the
most influential sf novels written in Spanish. This novel?which Borges is said
tohave called perfect?explores two key topics in science fiction: the search for
immortalityand the nature of reality. Bioy Casares, winner of theCervantes
Award (the Nobel Prize of Spanish letters), turned to science fiction several
times, although critics did not acknowledge his affiliation with the genre for
quite some time. Jorge Luis Borges's work, although much closer to the
fantastic, also touches the realm of science fiction in stories such as "Las ruinas
circulares" [The Circular Ruins, 1964] and "La otramuerte" [The Other Death,
1949].
During the 1950s, science fiction came into its own as a genre, especially
after themagazine Mas alia [Beyond] was launched and a publishing house,
Minotauro, issued handsome editions of modern sf classics. Itwas also at this
time (1957) that the comic El Eternauta became available. This comic, with
scripts by H.G. Oesterheld and drawings by Francisco Solano Lopez, helped
popularize sfmotifs.
During the 1960s, sfworks began appearing more frequently in anthologies,
in short-storycollections, and as novels. The first important study of the genre
in Spanish, El sentido de la ciencia ficcion [The Meaning of Science Fiction],
appeared in 1966. In it,Pablo Capanna used his philosopher's skills to examine
sf smythological and religious roots. Later, the same authorwould write studies
about Cordwainer Smith, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, and J.R.R. Tolkien,
among others.
Science fiction in Argentina was strengthened during the 1970s by the
publication of specialized collections and several books by Argentinian authors.
Especially noteworthy are the short-story collections by celebrated author
Angelica Gorodischer, Bajo las jubeas enflor [Under the Flowering Jubeas,
1973] and Casta luna electronica [Chaste Electric Moon, 1977], with their
picaresque, colloquial, and epic tones. Gorodischer's most praised book, Kalpa
Imperial [Imperial Kalpa, 1983], portrays thegrowth of an empire in language
that is both precise and fluid.
After a bloody dictatorship and decades of political instability, the sf genre
began to flourishwith the returnof democratic governments in 1983. The point
of departure for thisnew period was the launching of themagazine El Pendulo
edited byMarcial Souto, a key proponent of sf during this time. El Pendulo, in
thewords of Swedish critic Sam J.Lundwall, was "undoubtedly thebest science
fictionmagazine in content, presentation and layout ever published anywhere"
("Adventures in the Pulp Jungle," Foundation: The International Review of
Science Fiction 34 [Autumn 1985]: 12). Numerous other publications, both
professional and amateur, also appeared in connection with the magazine.
Between 1983 and 1989more Argentinian sfworks were published than in the
whole of theprevious period. Among themost noteworthy authors of these years
are the two-time winner of the Spanish UPC Award, Carlos Gardini, with
Primera linea [First Line, 1983] and Mi cerebro animal [My Animal Brain,
1983]; Marcelo Cohen, highly regarded in academic circles, with lnsomnio
[Insomnia, 1986]; and Sergio Gaut vel Hartman, one of themain promoters of
the genre, with Cuerpos descartables [Disposable Bodies, 1986]. Two other
periodicals thatare still active began during this same period: Cudsar, edited by
Luis Pestarini, and Axxon, edited by Eduardo Carletti. The former started in
1984 and is the longest-running Spanish-language magazine dedicated to the
genre, and the latter is an electronic publication, a pioneer in itsfield thatbegan
itsdistribution via diskette in 1989 and now appears on a very popular web site.
During the 1990s, a downturn in the economy brought a considerable
reduction in the publication of sf works. In 1991, ConSur I, the first Latin
American Science Fiction Convention, was held in Buenos Aires. A few
noteworthy novels appeared, but only sporadically, and many of the authors
whose names had appeared frequently a decade earlier either abandoned the
genre or remained silent. Unsurprisingly, pessimistic visions dominated this
period, inworks such as Anatomia humana [Human Anatomy, 1993] and Cruz
diablo [Vade Retro, 1997] by Eduardo Blaustein.
After Argentina's social crisis and financial default of 2001-02, the early
twenty-firstcentury shows signs of a new vitality,with new works by emerging
authors such as Alejandro Alonso's La ruta a Trascendencia [Route to
Transcendence, 2004] and Postales desde Oniris [Postcards from Oniris, 2004].
Also worth noting is the launch ofNautilus, edited by Carlos Abrahan, thefirst
publication inLatin America dedicated exclusively to sf criticism.
Chile
Futuristic fictionwas probably introduced toChilean readers during thecolonial
era throughworks such as Jean-Sebastien Mercier's Utopian time-travel fantasy,
UAn 2440 [In theYear 2440, 1771]. In 1877, Francisco Miralles published
Chile's first full-length speculative fiction novel, Desde Jupiter: Curioso viaje
de un santiaguino magnetizado [From Jupiter: The Curious Voyage of a
Magnetized Man from Santiago], a positivist critique of Chilean society written
at a time of popular fascination with theparanormal and, inprogressive circles,
a belief in human perfectibility through science and technology. One might
assume thatMiralles's novel spawned followers, yet todate scholars have found
nothing published between 1877 and 1913.
Up until the late 1950s, most Chilean sf authors paid little attention to
scientific plausibility, mixing the fantastic with technological innovations to
create a convenient platform fromwhich to examine serious social issues. Some
notable exceptions include Alberto Edwards (writing as Miguel de Fuenzalida)
and Ernesto Silva Roman, with his short story collections El dueno de los astros
[The Owner of theStars, 1929] and El holandes volador [The Flying Dutchman,
1948]. They wrote for rival magazines and penned thrilling stories full of
technological gadgetry and action-adventure heroics in the style of theUS pulps.
The appearance in 1959 ofHugo Correa's seminal novels, Los altisimos [The
Superior Ones] and Alguien mora en el viento [Someone Dwells Within the
Wind], was a turningpoint inChilean sf and is widely considered tomark the
first flourishing of the genre in Spanish America. The excitement of the space
race, combined with the expansion of theChilean publishing industryand the
availability of sf inSpanish?both translations and original works were published
in classic magazines such as Argentina's Mas Alia and Spain's Nueva
dimension?resulted inmore works appearing between 1959 and 1973 than in
the entire preceding eighty years. Writers were now less isolated from each
other and from their readers, and they shared a sense of purpose in developing
and promoting this new genre inChile. The first sf fan club was formed in the
1970s and around this time Julio Bravo Eichkoff launched two short-lived
fanzines, Sagitario (1972) and Aleph (1973). In addition to Hugo Correa, the
most important sfwriters from thisperiod are Elena Aldunate, with her 1967
anthology El senor de las mariposas [The Lord of theButterflies] and Antonio
Montero with Los superhomos [Supermen, 1963]. Although Chile's publishing
industry suffered during that country's military dictatorship (1973-89) and the
economic hardships of the 1980s, sfmanaged to survive with an average of two
new or reissued works published every year between 1974 and 1986.
A new generation has been sustaining Chilean sf since the late 1980s.
Fandom coalesced around Sochif (Sociedad Chilena de Fantasia y Ciencia
Ficcion) in the 1980s and Ficcionautas Asociados in the 1990s and these groups
hosted several public sf events. Moises Hasson, a much-published sfhistorian,
brought out thirteen issues of the fanzineNadir between 1986 and 1994. Fobos,
another noteworthy fanzine edited by Luis Saavedra, holds Chile's record for
longevity,with 23 print and electronic issues published between 1998 and 2004;
the entire run can be found online at < www. fanzine-fobos. cjb. net >. C urrently,
Chile's leading e-zine is Tau Zero (<www.tauzero.org>). Fobos sponsored
threenational sf short-storycontests and subsequently published three volumes
of prize winners, Pulsares 2002, Pulsares 2003, and Pulsares 2004. (An earlier
contest, not organized by Fobos, resulted in the collection Fixion 2000.)
Saavedra has written about Chilean fandom, and Hasson and Omar E. Vega
recently compiled a comprehensive bibliography of the genre (thisChronology
owes a large debt to these three researchers).
The literature itself isnow more self-consciously science fictional, andmany
of the genre's most innovative techniques and ideas are handled skillfully by
such writers as Diego Munoz, with Flores para un cyborg [Flowers for a
Cyborg, 1997]; Pablo Castro, with "Exerion," published in 2002 and available
inEnglish translation in the 2003 anthology Cosmos Latinos; and Sergio Amira,
with "PET," available in the 2002 edition of Pulsares: relatos chilenos de
ciencia ficcion. Jorge Baradit recently achieved a milestone inChilean sfwhen
his 2005 novel Ygdrasil was released by amajor internationalpublisher. Chilean
sf smomentum and quality may vary over time, as theydo everywhere, but the
genre is again on the ascendent thanks to a dedicated corps of writers and
promoters. There is every reason to expect a vigorous Chilean presence on the
future Spanish-language sf scene.
Uruguay
Uruguayan science fictionwas only a collection of isolated textsuntil the 1970s,
when a few authors began producing a body of work identifiable within the
genre. Itmust be noted that a significant portion of Uruguayan science fiction
was published outside the country, either because the authors lived abroad
(mostly inArgentina) or because they found better publishing conditions there
Spain.
1. That earlier version was the product of the combined efforts of Yolanda Molina
Gavilan, Miguel Angel Fernandez Delgado, Andrea Bell, Luis Pestarini, and Juan Carlos
Toledano. It was published as "Cronologia de CF latinoamericana: 1775-1999" in
2. Another great Spanish-language magazine, the Argentinian Mas alia, started even
earlier in 1953 and folded in 1957 after48 issues.
3. Most of the informationpresented here is also found on thatweb site
(< http://elforastero.blogalia.com/documentos/articulos/cienciaficcion.html >).
4. These two short stories can be found online at <http://espanol.geocities.com/
cifiper2002/colaboraciones.htm>.
5. Solange Iriarte, "Delirio boliviano" <http://sololiteratura.com/edm/
edmdelirio.htm > . For a discussion of Paz Soldan's El delirio de Turing, see J. Andrew
Brown's "Edmondo Paz Soldan and His Precursors: Borges, Dick, and the SF Canon"
elsewhere in this special section.
6. By using the suffix "itis"?as in tonsillitis, bronchitis?the term "Brazilitis" (as
opposed to "Brazilian," for example) is a play on words that deliberately evokes the
image of disease, and thus takes the mania for Brazilianess to the point of sickness and
repulsion.
Argentina
1816: Valdes, Antonio Jose. "Delirio." La Prensa Argentina (June 11 and 18).
1850: Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino. Argiropolis.
1865: Gorriti, Juana Manuela. "Quien escucha, su mal oye."
1875: Holmberg, Eduardo Ladislao. Dos partidos en lucha: fantasia
cientifica.
-. del senor Nic-Nac, en el que se refieren las prodijiosas
Viaje maravilloso
aventuras de este senor y se dan a conocer las instituciones, costumbres y
preocupaciones de un mundo desconocido. El Nacional. Rpt. Los argentinos
en la luna, ed. Eduardo Goligorsky, 1968 (only a fragment).
1877: Cane, Miguel. "Las armonias de la luz." Ensayos.
1879: Eduardo Ladislao. "Horacio o Los automatas."
Holmberg, Kalibang Rpt. 2000
inHistorias futuras: antologia de la cienciaficcion argentina, ed. Adriana
Fernandez and Edgardo Pigoli. There are other reprints.
1880: Olivera, Carlos. "El hombre de la levita gris." En la brecha.
1881: Monsalve, Carlos. "El hombre de piedra." Pdginas literarias.
-. "De un mundo a otro." Revista Liter aria #5.
Olivera, Carlos. a hora fija." En la brecha.
"Los muertos
1884: Eduardo Ladislao. de cera." La Cronica,
Holmberg, "Filigranas April 7th-12th.
Rpt. Filigranas de cera y otros textos, ed. Enriqueta Mori lias Ventura, 2000.
Other reprints are available.
1891: De Ezcurra, Eduardo. Buenos Aires en el siglo XXX.
1906: Bunge, Carlos Octavio. Thespis.
Lugones, Leopoldo. Lasfuerzas extranas (anth). Reprinted many times.
1908: Dittrich, Julio O. "Buenos Aires en el 1950 bajo el regimen socialista."
1912: Quiroule, Pierre. Sobre la ruta de la anarquia, novela libertaria.
-.
1914: La ciudad americana.
anarquista
1917: Rojas, Ricardo. Lapsiquina.
1918: Angelici, Pedro. Homuculus.
1924: Lugones, Leopoldo. Cuentos fatales (anth).
Quiroule, Pierre. En la sonada tierra del Ideal.
1926: Ugarte, Manuel. El camino de los dioses (novela de la proximo, guerra).
\921: Bunge, Carlos O. La sirena (narraciones (anth).
fantdsticas)
1928: Nelson, Ernesto. "Las extravagantes de un habitante de Marte."
impresiones
1929: Mendez Calzada, Antonio. Abdicacion de Jehovd y otras patranas (anth).
1933: Bioy Casares, Adolfo (asMartin Sacastru.) 17disparos contra loporvenir (anth).
1939: Cancela, Arturo. La mujer de Lot.
1940: Borges, JorgeLuis, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Silvina Ocampo, eds. Antologia de
la literaturafantdstica.
Grassi, Alfredo Julio, and Alejandro Vignati, eds. Ciencia ficcion: nuevos cuentos
argentinos (anth).
Nacarato, Vicente. Las orbitas activas.
(anth).
Bajarlia, Juan-Jacobo. Formula del antimundo (anth).
1971: Flesca, Haydee, ed. Antologia de la literatura fantdstica argentina: narradores
del sigloXIX (anth).
Sainz Ballesteros, Hector. Prohibido estacionar (anth).
1972: Bajarlia, Juan-Jacobo. El dia cero (anth).
1973: Bioy Casares, Adolfo. Historias fantdsticas (anth).
Gorodischer, Angelica. Bajo las jubeas enflor (anth). Rpt. 1987; 1985.
Manguel, Alberto, ed. Antologia de la literatura fantdstica argentina: narradores
del sigloXX (mth.)
1974: Bioy Casares, Adolfo. Dormir al sol.
1975: Borges, Jorge Luis. "Utopia de un hombre que esta cansado."
Cocaro, Nicolas, and Antonio Serrano, eds. Cuentos fantdsticos argentinos:
segunda serie (anth).
Mariotti, Maximiliano. Pequeno molino del ocaso.
Moracci Bauvier Vila, Hector. 17cuentos cosmicos apocalipticos para terricolas
(anth).
Posse, Abel. Momento de morir.
Sainz Ballesteros, Hector. Dias singulares.
1976: Escudero, Adrian Nestor. Breve sinfoniay otros cuentos (anth).
1977: Goligorsky, Eduardo. A la sombra de los bdrbaros (anth). Rpt. 1986.
Gorodischer, Angelica. Casta luna electronica (anth).
Vanasco, Alberto. Nuevas memorias delfuturo (anth).
1978: Grimani, Santiago. Desde Delos enfrecuencia modulada (anth).
Sanchez, Jorge A., ed. Los universos vislumbrados: antologia de ciencia ficcion
argentina (anth).
Sanchez, Lesly. Las zonas transparentes (anth).
1979: Albamonte, Luis Maria. El ultimohombrede la Tierra (anth).
Calki. El univac.
Gorodischer, Angelica. Trafalgar. Rpt. 1984, 1986, 2004.
1980: Bignami, Ariel, ed. Fantdsticos e inquietantes (anth).
Dominguez, Mignon, ed. Cuentos fantdsticos hispanoamericanos (anth).
Lugones, Leopoldo. 'El espejo negro' y otros cuentos, ed. Pedro Luis Barcia
(anth).
Posse, Abel. La reina delplata.
Saenz, Dalmiro, and Sergio Joselovsky. Latinoamerica, go home.
Souto, Marcial, ed. Historia de la Fragua y otros inventos (anth).
-. para (anth).
Trampas pesadillas
Shua, Ana Maria. Viajando se conoce gente (anth).
1989: Cohen, Marcelo. El oido absoluto.
Montes, Francisco. Memorias de una mujer italiana: ano 2101.
Magazines
1937: La novelafantdstica (1 issue).
1947: Hombres delfuturo (3 issues).
1953: Urania (2 issues).
1953-57:Mas alia (48 issues).
1957-59: Pistas del espacio (14 issues).
I960-?: The ArgentineScience Fiction Review (11 issues).
1962: Ficcion cientificay realidad (2 issues).
1964-68:Minotauro (10 issues).
1965: Geminis (2 issues).
1968: Antelae (1 issue).
1969: El Alienigeno Solitario (3 issues).
1972: Kadath (1 issue).
1976: ElPerof(l issue).
Tralfamadore (1 issue).
1976-77: La revistade cienciaficcion yfantasia (3 issues).
1977-79: Umbral Tiempo Futuro (9 issues).
1978: Entropia (1 issue).
1979: Suplementode Humor y Ciencia Ficcion (2 issues).
1979-80: El Pendulo (4 issues).
Bolivia
c.1920: Zamudio, Adela. "El vertigo."
1937: Estenssoro, Maria Virginia. "El occiso."
c.1940: Pless, Werner. 2487. Rpt. 1989.
1943: Montenegro, Alvaro. Victima de los siglos.
"
c. 1960: Camargo, Edmundo. La escalera."
c. 1970: Marcus, Harry. El abismo de Est re lias.
1975: Zamudio, Adela. Cuentos breves.
1990: Murillo Benich, Hugo. Paraiso (anth).
1996: Bruzoni, Erika. "El individuo."
1997: Arocena, Fernando. Latinoamerica 2025.
1998: Cardenas Franco, Adolfo. "Vuelo rasante."
Gabriel, Paul. "Corto circuito."
Gutierrez, Marcela. "Titulares de periodicos."
1999: Murillo Benich, Hugo. "Chaucer en los Andes."
2001: Antezana, Rodrigo. El viaje.
Mesa, Isabel, and Rafael Archondo, eds. El futuro en cuentos: Finalistas y
ganadores del concur so juvenil de cuento de ciencia ficcion (anth).
2004: Daher, Gary. Elhuesped.
Brazil
1856: De Macedo, Joaquim Manuel. "O fim do mundo." Jornal do Commercio, June
13.
1868-72: Dos Santos, JoaquimFelicio. Pdginas da Historia do Brasil, escritas no ano
2000.
1869: De Macedo, Joaquim Manuel. A luneta mdgica.
1875: Zaluar, Emilio Augusto. O Doutor Benignus.
1899: Freitas, Emilia. A rainha do Ignoto.
1909: Barnsley, Godofredo Emerson. Sao Paulo no ano 2000.
1922: Teofilo, Rodolfo. O Reino do Kioto.
1923: Coutinho,Albino. A liga dos planetas.
1925: Cruls, Gastao. A Amazonia misteriosa. Rpt. 1987.
1926: Lobato, Monteiro. O Presidente Negro.
1929: Bittencourt, Adalzira. Sua Excelencia a presidente da republica no ano 2500.
1930: Del Picchia, Menotti. Republica 3000 /Afilha do Inca (alternatetitlesof same
work).
Neves, Berilo. A costela de Addo (anth).
-. Seculo XXI (anth).
1931: Neves, Berilo. A mulher e o diabo (anth).
1934: Martins, Epaminondas. O outro mundo.
ciencificcdo (anth).
De Carvalho, Vinicius. Russia livre ou o unico deus verdadeiro.
Menezes, Levy. O 3planeta (anth).
Rubiao, Murilo. Os dragoes (anth).
1966: Bueno, Ruth. Diario das mascaras.
Carneiro, O Homem
Andre. que adivinhava (anth).
Ribas da Costa, Joao. Dunquerque universal.
espago.
Teixeira Scavone, Rubens. O projeto dragdo.
1989: Carmo, G. Odisseia no planeta Terra.
(anth).
De Sousa Causo, Roberto. Terra Verde.
Lodi-Ribeiro, Gerson, ed. Phantastica brasiliana: 500anos de historias e doutros
Brasis (anth).
Moreira, Silvana, and Antonio de Macedo, eds. A viagem (anth).
2001: Calife, Jorge Luiz. As sereias do espaco (anth).
Klautau, Michelle. O crepusculo dafe.
Raposo, Alexandre. Eden 4 (anth).
Salzano Masini, Andre Carlos. Humanos.
Magazines
1955-60: Fantastic (12 issues).
1968: Galaxia 2000 (6 issues).
Magazine de Ficcdo Cientifica (20 issues).
1983-88: Hiperespago (fanzine).
1985-2005: Somnium (89+ issues; fanzine;officialpublicationof theClube de Leitores
de F.C. [theSF Readers Club]).
1990-: Megaton fanzine (71 + issues).
Borduna & Feiticaria (10 issues; fanzine).
1990-92: Isaac AsimovMagazine (25 issues).
1993-2003:Hiperespago (fanzine).
1993-: Noticias ...do Fim do Nada (61 issues; fanzine).
1996-2002: Papera Uirande (3 issues; 8 special issues; fanzine).
1997: The Brazuca Review (3 issues; fanzine).
2001: Quark (10 issues).
2001-: Sci-Fi News (7+ issues).
Chile
1875: Tallman, Benjamin. ;Una vision del porvenir! o El espejo del mundo en el ano de
1975.
1878: Miralles, Francisco. Desde Jupiter: Curioso viaje de un santiaguino magnetizado.
1924: Sienna, Pedro. La caverna de los murcielagos.
1927: Land, R.O. [pseud, of Julio Assman]. Tierra Firme: Novela futurista.
1929: Silva Roman, Ernesto. El dueho de los astros (anth).
1932: Astica Fuentes, Manuel. Thimor.
1933: Perry,David. Ovalle: El 21 de abril del ano 2031.
1934: Huidobro, Vicente. La proximo.
Thayer Ojeda, Luis. La Atldntida pervertida.
1935: Silva, Hugo. Pacha Pulai.
y fantasia.
Correa, Hugo. Donde acecha la serpiente.
Magazines
1965: Espacio-tiempo (2 issues).
1972: Sagitario (2 issues).
1973: Aleph (1 issue).
1986-94: Nadir (fanzine, 13 issues).
1987: Nova (fanzine, 1 issue; official magazine of the Chilean Science Fiction Club).
Colombia
1896: Silva, Jose Asuncion. "Futura" (poems).
1905: Acosta de Samper, Soledad. "Bogota en el ano 2000."
1928: Fuenmayor, Jose Felix. Una triste aventura de catorce sabios (anth).
1932: Osorio, JoseAntonio. Barranquilla 2132.
1936: Sliger,Manuel F. Viajes interplanetariosen zepelines que tendrdnlugaren el oho
2009.
1965: Espinosa, German. La noche de la Trapa (anth).
1967: Loperr, Jaime. La perorata.
1974: Gaviria Coronado, Alberto. Brujos cosmicos (anth).
1976: Arango Cano, Jesus. Mi gran aventura cosmica.
1979: Ardila, Ruben. Walden Tres.
Mora Velez, Antonio. Glitza.
1982: Mora Velez, Antonio. Eljuicio de los dioses.
1986: Mora Velez, Antonio. Lorna es una mujer.
1990: De J. Henriquez, Rafael. Los dioses descienden al amanecer.
1995: Restrepo Cuartas, Jaime. El cero absoluto.
1996: Rebetez, Rene. Ellos lo llaman amanecer.
1998: Price, Jaime,et al, eds. Cuentos de cienciaficcion (anth).
Rebetez, Rene, Cuentos de amor, terror y otros misterios.
2000: Rebetez, Rene, ed. Contempordneos delporvenir:primera antologia colombiana
de cienciaficcion (anth).
Costa Rica
1920: Gagini, Carlos. La caida del dguila.
1995: Quijano Vincenzi, Laura. Una sombra en el hielo.
1996: Sasso, Roberto, and Pablo Rojas, eds. CR. 2040 (anth).
2003: Molina Jimenez, Ivan, ed. La miel de los mudos y otros cuentos ticos de ciencia
ficcion, (anth).
Ortiz, Alberto. Azor y Luna.
2005: Molina Jimenez, Ivan, ed. El alivio de las nubes y mds cuentos ticos de ciencia
ficcion (anth).
Cuba
1875: Calcagno, Francisco. Historia de un muerto.
1888: Calcagno, Francisco. En busca del eslabon.
1920: Planas, Juan Manuel. La corriente
del golf.
1964: Arango, Angel. van los cefalomos? (anth).
lAdonde
Hurtado, Oscar. La ciudad muerta de Korad (poems). Rpt. 2002.
1966: Arango, Angel. Elplaneta negro (anth).
Correa, Arnaldo. Asesinato por anticipado.
Collazo, Miguel. El librofantdsticode Oaj.
1967: Arango, Angel. Robotomaquia (anth).
Correa, Arnaldo. El primer hombre a Marte.
Magazines
1993-?: I+Real (virtualmagazine inDOS format).
1997-98: Nexus (2 issues).
1998-: miNatura.
2001?- Oaicdn literario
2005-: isparo en red (PDF format).
2005-: ubit.
Ecuador
1989: Ubidia, Abdon. Divert Inventos (anth).
1994: Paez, Profundo en la galaxia (anth).
Santiago.
2000: Santibanez, J. D. Ejecutese el mahana.
2003: Santibanez, J. D. El mago.
El Salvador
1972: Menen Desleal, Alvaro of Alvaro Menendez Leal]. Hacer el amor en un
[pseud,
refugioatomico (anth).
-. La ilustre familia androide (anth).
1973: Menen Desleal, Alvaro Tribulaciones de un americano que estudio demografia
(anth).
1974: Lindo, Hugo. Espejos paralelos (anth).Rpt. 1978.
1999: Serrano, Rodolfo. El Zodiaco.
Guatemala
1899: Soto Hall, Maximo. Elproblema.
Mexico
1775: De Rivas, Fray Manuel Antonio. "Sizigias y cuadraturas lunares ajustadas al
meridiano de Merida de Yucatan por un anctitona o habitador de la Luna, y
dirigidas al bachiller don Ambrosio de Echeverria, entonador de kyries
funerales en la parroquia del Jesus de dicha ciudad, y al presente profesor de
logaritmica en el pueblo de Mama de la peninsula de Yucatan, para el ano del
Senor de 1775" (manuscript).Critical editionsbyAna Maria Morales, 1992,
andMiguel Angel Fernandez Delgado, 2001.
1844: Cerillos, Fosforos [pseud, of Sebastian Camacho Zulueta]. "Mexico en el ano
1970." El Liceo Mexicano.
1849: Del Castillo Lenard, Geronimo. "Gacetin de Merida, Capital del Bajo Yucatan,
enero30de 1949."
1861: Pizarro, Nicolas. El monedero.
1862: Nepomuceno Adorno, Juan. "El remoto porvenir." Laarmonia del universo. Rpt.
1882.
1871: Altamirano, Ignacio Manuel. La Navidad en las montanas.
1872: Castera, Pedro. "Un viaje celeste." El Domingo: Semanario de Literatura,
Ciencias y Mejoras Materiales.
1890: Castera, Pedro. Querens. Rpt. 1923, 1986, 1987.
-. "Rosas y fresas." Dramas en un corazon.
1898: Natalis [possible pseud, of Amado Nervo]. "Cuentos del porvenir" ("El interes
del dinero," "El periodismo en la antigiiedad" and "La guerra y los
1918: Nervo, Amado. "El gran viaje" (poem). El estanque de los lotos. Rpt. 1993. Sin
espiritus," and "El negro que se pinto de negro." Los domadores y otras
narraciones.
Delhumeau, Eduardo. El ano 3000 bis.
Canedo, Diego. Palamds, Echevete y yo, o el lago asfaltado.
1947: Bernal, Rafael. Su nombre era muerte.
Toro, Carlos. "El hombre artificial," "El dieciocho de mayo," and "Cuento del
futuro. El miedo: algunos cuentos.
Canedo, Diego. La noche anuncia el dia.
1952: Arreola, Juan Jose. "Baby H.P.," "Anuncio," and "En verdad os digo."
Confabulario.
1954: Fuentes, Carlos. "El que invento la polvora." Los dias enmascarados.
c.1955: America, Enrique [pseud, of Enrique Francisco Camarena]. La dama del nuevo
mundo.
1955: Arreola, Juan Jose. "Parabola del trueque." Confabulario y varia invencion.
1956: Camarena Machorro, Pedro. El mundo que sohamos.
1957: Caballero, Jose Luis. "Rayos beta." Aventura yMisterio.
De la Llave, Gustavo. "Verde y ambar." Aventura yMisterio.
1959: Castro Leal, Antonio. "La literatura no se cotiza" and "Una historia del siglo
XX." El laurel de San Lorenzo.
1961: Rojas Garciduefias, Manuel. La gran amiba.
1962: Castillo Ledon, Beatriz. "Rubicundo Hematies."
Ochoa Sandoval, Eglantina. "Breve resena historica." Anuario del cuento
mexicano.
1964: Cardena, Jaime. "Charles Darwin IV." El domino: cuentos.
Gutierrez Arias, Arturo, and Irene G. de Lanz.
El mensaje de Fobos.
Leal Cortes, Antonio. "Orestes." El cuento mexicano del siglo XX: antologia.
Rebetez, Rene. Los ojos de la clepsidra (anth).
1966: Cardona Pena, Alfredo. Cuentos de magia, misterio y horror (anth).
Rebetez, Rene. "El alegre planeta." La ciencia ficcion: breve antologia del
1978: Almazan, Marco Aurelio. "La vida sexual de los robots." Los gormondios de
marfesia.
Aviles Fabila, Rene. Fantasias en carrusel (anth).
-. "Fiat lux." Pueblo en sombras.
Tamaulipeca.
Schaffler Gonzalez, Federico. "Prediction cumplida" and "Un error de calculo."
ficcion (anth).
1989: Cornejo, Gerardo. Al norte del milenio.
Morales, Juan Jose. Elproyecto Superman y otros cuentos (anth).
Rubio, Arnulfo. Oniria.
Schaffler Gonzalez, Federico. Absurdo concur sante (anth).
Porcayo, Gerardo Horacio. Los mapas del caos: Breve antologia de ciencia
Porcayo, Gerardo Horacio. Lapiel del vacio: Cuentos del espacio exterior (anth).
Reyes, Jose Javier. Nacer de nuev.
Schaffler, Federico Schaffler. "Los crimenes que conmovieron al mundo."
Cuentistas Tamaulipecos: Del fin de siglo hacia el nuevo milenio. Ed. Orlando
Ortiz.
Taibo II, Paco Ignacio. "El tunel." Mariachis, muertos sonriendoy otros cuentos
extrahos.
mujeres y de vampiros.
Canabal Paullada, Esthela. La mirada de un ciclope (anth).
Fernandez Delgado, Miguel Angel, ed. Visiones perifericas: antologia de la
ciencia ficcion mexicana (anth).
Frank, Eduardo. Mundos azules (anth).
Gonzalez Mello, Flavio. "En orbita." El teatro de carpa y otros documentos
extraviados.
Guzman Wolffer, Ricardo. Bestias de sangre yfuego.
Malpica, Antonio. El impostor.
Martinez Cantu, Ricardo. Libro de la luna libre (anth).
Martre, Gonzalo. /Jet Set / Cuando
Coprofernalia la basura nos tape (anth).
Mendoza, Leo. Borges, y otras historias hechizas
El Che, (anth).
Pascal, H. Unaparca matemdtica y otros cuentos alucinados (anth).
Pifla, Gerardo. "El gato de Schrodinger" and "La erosion de la tinta." La erosion
de la tinta y otros relatos.
antologia.
Fernandez, Bernardo. El llanto de los niiios muertos (anth).
Fuentes, Carlos. La silla del dguila.
Horacio Porcayo, Gerardo. las sirenas canton.
Cuando
Magazines
1929-: Revista de Revistas (mostly foreign authors).
1934-36: Emocion (90 + issues; first Mexican pulp magazine).
1948-53: Los Cuentos Fantdsticos (48 issues; Mexican version of Famous Fantastic
Mysteries).
1955-57: Enigmas (16 issues; in agreement with Startling Stories and Fantastic Story
Magazine).
1956-57: Ciencia y Fantasia (14 issues; The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
1957-?: Aventura yMisterio.
1958: Fantasias del Futuro (1 issue; material from Science Fiction Quarterly, Super
Science Fiction, Future Science Fiction, Planet Stories, and The Original Science
Fiction).
1964: Crononauta (2 issues).
1976-82: Contactos Extraterrestres (published several sf stories).
1977-95: Ciencia
y Desarrollo (from issue #13, published one sf story per month, by
foreign and national authors).
1977-78: Espacio (6 issues).
1978: Kosmos 2000 (2 issues).
1978-81: Oculto (published several sf stories,by foreignand national authors).
1981-: Comunidad CONACYT (published twodouble sf issues,#128-131,Nov.).
1984-: Revista de revistas (issue #3904 dedicated to sf).
Plural (issue #163 dedicated toLatin American sf).
1989-:Revista de revistas (issues #4149, #4150, and #4151 dedicated to sr).
1991: Estacosa (2 issues, fanzine).
1991-92: Prolepsis (3 issues, fanzine).
1991-: Tierra Adentro (double issue #51 dedicated to new Mexican sf)
1992: Otracosa (1 issue; virtual magazine).
1992-98: A Quien Corresponda (many issues on Mexican and Latin American sf).
1992-2000: Umbrales (49 issues).
1993-96: Laberinto (8 issues; fanzine).
1993-98:La langosta sehaposado (9 issues; virtualmagazine).
1993-99: Asimov Ciencia Ficcion (16 issues; Mexican version of Asimov's Science
Fiction).
1995-96:Nahual! (6 issues; fanzine).
1995-97:fractal'zine (9 issues; fanzine).
1996-:Revista de revistas (issue #4444 on sf).
1997-98:Azoth (4 issues; fanzine).
Complot Internacional (2 issues on sf).
Charrobot (8 issues).
1998-2002: Sub (5 issues; fanzine).
1998-:Generacion (issue #21 on cyberpunk).
2002: El Oscuro Retorno del Hijo del;Nahual! (3 issues).
Tierra Adentro (1 issueon sf).
VagonLiterario: Literatura e infanciapara el adulto de habla hispana (1 issueon
children's sf).
2002-04: Blanco Movil (3 issues on sf).
2003: Sol de Tierra: Revista del InstitutoCoahuilense de Cultura (1 issueon sf).
2004: CIECAS (1 special issueon sf; published by the InstitutoPolitecnico Nacional).
Nicaragua
1959: Dona, William Henry. Sputch-Nica.
Peru
1904: Palma, Clemente. "La ultima rubia."
1910: Palma, Clemente. "El dia tragico."
1934: Palma, Clemente. XYZ.
1952: Alarco, Eugenio. La magia de los mundos.
1958: Velarde, Hector. Laperra en el satelite.
1963: Belli, Carlos German. "Oh hada cibernetica" (poem).
1966: Alarco, Eugenio. Los mortales.
1968: Adolph, JoseB. El retornode Aladino (anth.)
1971: Adolph, Jose B. que la muerte
Hasta (anth.)
Estremadoyro B., Jose M. Glasskan: El planeta maravilloso.
-. Los homos y la tierra.
1972: Adolph, JoseB. Invisiblepara lasfieras (anth.)
1973: Adolph, JoseB. La ronda de los generates.
-. Los monstruos que vendrdn (anth.)
1974: Adolph, JoseB. Cuentos del relojero abominable (anth.)
1975: Adolph, JoseB. Mahana fuimosfelices (anth.)
Stagnaro Ruiz, Giancarlo. Hiperespacios.
1976: Belevan, Harry, ed. Antologia del cuento fantdstico peruano (anth.)
Rivera Saavedra, Juan. Cuentos sociales de ciencia-ficcion (anth.)
1978: Belevan, Harry. Lapiedra en el agua.
1983: Jose B. "El dia que saltaron los chinos," in El cuento peruano 1975
Adolph,
1979, ed. Ricardo Gonzalez Vigil.
1984: Adolph, JoseB. La batalla del cafe (anth.)
-. Mariana, las ratas.
1986: Belevan, Harry. Fuegos artificiales (anth.)
1987: Bravo de Rueda, Jose Alberto. "Arakne," in "Cide Hamete Benengeli coautor del
Magazines
2002-03: Ciencia Ficcion Peruana (E-zine).
2003 -: Velero 25 (E-zine).
Puerto Rico
1998: Stevens-Arce, James. El Salvador de almas (Soulsaver). Trans, from the original
Uruguay
1898: Piria, Francisco. El socialismo triunfante o Lo que sera mi pais dentro de 200
anos.
1910: Fragoso Lima, S. [pseud, of Horacio Quiroga]. El hombre artificial.
1935: Quiroga, Horacio. Mas alia (anth).
1970: Levrero, Mario [pseud, of Jorge Varlotta]. La ciudad. Rpt. 1999.
-. La mdquina en Gladys
depensar (anth).
1973: Carson, Tarik. El hombre olvidado (anth).
1974: Varlotta, Jorge. Nick Carter se divierte mientras el lector es asesinado y yo
agonizo.
1976: Terra Arocena, Horacio. El planeta Arreit.
1977: Elissalde, Enrique. Ciencipoemas: la computadora dijo basta (poems).
1978: Federici, Carlos Maria. "El nexo de Maeterlinck."
1980: Levrero, Mario. Paris.
1982: Blengio Brito, Raul. El ultimo hombre.
Levrero, Mario. Ellugar. Rpt. 1991.
-. Todo el tiempo (anth).
1983: Levrero, Mario. Aguas salobres (anth).
1985: Obes Fleurquin, Felix. Urugabon al final de la calle (anth).
1986: Carson, Tarik. El corazon reversible
(anth).
Levrero, Mario. Caza de conejos. Rpt. Lo mejor de la ciencia ficcion
latinoamericana, ed. Bernard Goorden and A.E. Van Vogt, 1998 (anth).
1987: Levrero, Mario. Desplazamientos.
-. libres (anth).
Espacios
-. Fauna.
1989: Carson, Tarik. "El estado superior de la materia."
1990: Rodriguez Barilari, Elbio. Alarmas & excursiones (anth).
-, ed. Mas vale tarde que nunca (anth).
Magazines
1988: Trantor (1 issue).
1989: Smog (2 issues).
1989-95:Didspar (3 issues).
2002-03: Dias extrahos (2 issues).
Venezuela
1927: Garmendia, Julio. "La realidad circundante." La tienda de los muhecos.
1938: Nunez, Enrique Bernardo. La galera de Tiberio.
1967: Alizo, David. "Los convidados," "La rebelion de Emilio," "Alarma general,"
"Segun sus obras," "Quorum," "La nube de humo." Quorum.
1967: De Venanzi, Francisco. "Conspiration en Neo-Ucronia." Papeles.
1970: Balza, Jose. "Racine desde el aeropuerto." Ordenes.
Mata, Humberto. "Jinetes de la luz." Imdgenes y conductos.
1971: BrittoGarcia, Luis. Rajatabla (anth).
1973: Berroeta, Pedro. La salamandra.
Estrada, Pascual. desvanecido
Rostro memoria (anth).
1975: Quintero, Ednodio. "Valdemar Lunes, el inmortal." Volvere con misperros.
1977: Bello Porras, Jose Gregorio. Andamiaje (anth).
Armando Jose. Me parecio que saltaba por el espacio como una hoja
Sequera,
muerta (anth).
1979: Britto Garcia, Luis. Abrapalabra.
Miranda, Julio E. Ciencia ficcion venezolana: antologia (anth).
1983: BrittoGarcia, Luis. La orgia imaginaria (anth).
1985? Vargas, Arquimedes. 666.
1988: Nuno, Juan., et al. Fantasmas computarizados (anth).
1989: Sabino, Carlos A. La religionde los hanksis.
1994: Quintero, Ednodio. El rey de las ratas.
Magazines
1986-94: Cygnus (5 issues).
1988-99: La Gaceta de Ubik (24 issues).
1993-94: Necronomicon (2 issues).
1998; 2002-: Desde el lado obscuro (E-zine, 8+ issues).
Goligorsky, Eduardo. "When the Birds Die." Trans. Vernor Vinge. The
Knopf, 1970.
-. The Misplaced Machine and Other Stories. Trans. Pamela G. Bird. New
York: Knopf, 1970.
1973: Carneiro, Andre. "Darkness." Trans. Leo L. Barrow. The Year's Best Science
Fiction. Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss. London: Sphere, 1973: 94-112.
1975: Bioy Casares, Adolfo. A Plan for Escape. Trans. Suzanne Jill Levine. New York:
Dutton, 1975.
1978: Bioy Casares, Adolfo. Asleep in the Sun. Trans. Suzanne Jill Levine. New York:
Persea, 1978.
1979: Rubiao, Murilo. The Ex-Magician and Other Stories. Trans. Thomas Colchie.
New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
1982: Sales, Herberto. The Fruit of thy Womb. Trans. Michael Fody III. Bringsty:
Wyvern, 1982.
1983: Rebetez, Rene. "The New Prehistory." Trans. Damon Knight. The Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction (June 1983). The Penguin World Omnibus of
Science Fiction. Ed. Brian W. Aldiss and Sam J. Lundwall. London: Penguin,
1986. 231-35.
1985: Brandao, Ignacio de Loyola. And Still the Earth. Trans. Ellen Watson. New
York: Avon, 1985.
1986: Carneiro, Andre. "Life as an Ant." Trans. Joe F. Randolph. Tales from the
Planet Earth. Ed. Frederik Pohl and Elizabeth Ann Hull. New York: St.
Martin's, 1986. 27-40.
Federici, Carlos Maria.
"'Oh, Lenore!' Came the Echo." Trans. Joe F.
1991: Gorodischer, Angelica. "Under the Yubayas in Bloom." Beyond the Border: A
New Age in Latin American Women's Fiction. Ed. Nora Erro-Peralta and
Caridad Silva. Pittsburgh:Cleis, 1991. Rev. ed. Gainesville: UP of Florida,
2000. 110-31.
1992: Agosin, Marjorie, ed. Secret Weavers: Stories of theFantastic by Women of
Argentina and Chile. New York: White Pine, 1992. (Science fiction, fairy
tales, and political allegories by 18 authors.)
1996: Esquivel, Laura. Law of Love. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. New York:
Crown, 1996.
1998: Gorodischer, Angelica. "The End of a Dynasty" [excerpt from Gorodischer's
Kalpa Imperial]. Trans. Ursula K. Le Guin. Starlight 2. Ed. Patrick Nielsen
Hayden. New York: Tor, 1998. 216-50.
2000: Pereira, Carla Cristina. "Xochiquetzal." Trans. David Alan Prescott. Altair6&
7 (2000): 70-81.
2001: Lugones, Leopoldo. Strange Forces. Trans. Gilbert Alter-Gilbert. Pittsburgh:
Latin American Literary Review, 2001.
2003: Bell, Andrea, and Yolanda Molina-Gavilan, eds. and trans. Cosmos Latinos: An
Duran, Ana Luisa. El cuento fantdstico y raw del modernismo. Diss. UCLA,
1970.
1971: Alvarez Villar, Alfonso. "La ciencia ficcion /,un nuevo humanismo?" Atldntida
9.50 (1971): 174-89.
1972: Bente, Thomas O. "'El guardagujas' de Juan Jose Arreola: ^satira politica o
Rioja, Ines. "La ciencia-ficcion y el arte de la tecnica del miedo." Arbor 365
(1976): 113-17.
Scolarici, T.E. Ciencia-Ficcion: Estructuray clave. Buenos Aires. Aymi, 1976.
Rojas Hernandez, Arturo Cesar. "La tematica de ciencia ficcion en los relatos de
Rene Barjavel." Diss. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico-Facultad de
Filosofia y Letras, 1978.
1979: Capanna, Pablo. "Humor y ciencia ficcion." Suplemento de Humor y Ciencia
Ficcion. 1 (1979): 8-11.
-. "Robert cuando el humor da de
Sheckley: que pensar." Suplemento
Humor y Ciencia Ficcion 2 (1979): 10-13.
-. "Stanislav Lem: el delirio metodico." El Pendulo 4 (1979): 65-69.
Rodriguez Monegal, Emir. "Fiction Under the Censor's Eye." World Literature
fuerzas extranas by Leopoldo Lugones. Buenos Aires: Ediciones del 80, 1981.
9-45.
Capanna, Pablo. "La muerte del senor Sto Odin." El Pendulo 4 (1981): 83-85.
-. "Isaac Asimov o La maquina de escribir." El Pendulo 2 (1981): 65-71.
(1986): 36-53.
-. "Recordando al senor Smith." El Pendulo 11 (1986): 76-85.
Chaviano, Daina. "Veinte anos de ciencia ficcion en Cuba." Cuasar 9-10 (1986):
199-211.
Gaut vel Hartman, Sergio. "Ciencia ficcion en laArgentina." Gigamesh 3 (1986):
69-75.
Mosier, Patricia. "Communicating Transcendence in Angelica Gorodischer's
Trafalgar." Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana 12.2-3 (1983): 63
71.
Serra, Emilio. "Sobre la ciencia fiction argentina." Gigamesh 4 (1986): 96-102.
1987: Chaviano, Daina. "Para una bibliografia de la CF cubana." Letras cubanas 6
(1987): 273-80.
Dellepiane, Angela B. "Critical Notes on Argentinian Science Fiction Narrative."
(1987): 44-50.
1988: Barcia, Pedro Luis, ed. "Estudio preliminar." "El espejo negro"y otros cuentos
(1988): 79-80.
De Ambrosio, Jose. "Una forma de plagio en la literatura fantastica." Cuasar 18
(1989): 101-103.
Lqjo de Beuter, Maria Rosa. "Dos versiones de la Utopia: 'Sensatez del circulo'
de Angelica Gorodischer y 'Utopia de un hombre cansado' de JorgeLuis
Borges." Mujery sociedad en America: IVSimposio internacional, Vol. I. Ed.
JuanaAlcira Arancibia. Northridge,CA: California StateUP, 1988. 93-104.
Maack, A. "Ilda Cadiz Avila, autora de cuentos de ciencia ficcion." Revista
Cauce 182 (1988): 13.
Mauso, Pablo Villarubia. "Ciencia ficcion en Brasil." Nadir 10 (1988): 8-10;
Nadir 11 (1991): 2-10.
Mosier, Patricia. "Women inPower inGorodischer's Kalpa Imperial." Spectrum
of the Fantastic. Ed. Donald Palumbo. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988. 153
61.
Velasco Moreno, Juan. "Perfume, musica, color: sinestesia, ocultismo y ciencia
ficcion en dos relatos de Leopoldo Lugones." Modernismo hispdnico. Ed.
GilbertAzam. Madrid: ICI, 1988. 314-19.
1989: Bayeto, Roberto. "Ciencia ficcion, automoviles, decadencia y sociedad de
consumo." Diaspar 1 (1989): 34-40.
De Ambrosio, Jose. "ABC de la ciencia ficcion argentina." Cuasar 21 (1989):
90-103.
-. "El universo mecanica cuantica y ficcion especulativa."
multiplicado:
Cuasar 19 (1989): 116-30.
Dellepiane, Angela B. "Narrativa argentina de ciencia ficcion: Tentativas
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Berumen, Humberto Felix. "Miriada." Diario 29 [Tijuana] (July 23, 1992): n.p.
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Mazzocchi, Mirtha Paula. "Oesterheld y la gran aventura de la historieta
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Sarlo, Beatriz. "Horatio Quiroga y la hipotesis tecnico-cientifica." La
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Ricardo. "La literatura de ciencia ficcion en Colombia." Nautilus
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ABSTRACT
This bibliography presents the most comprehensive inventory to date of science fiction
published in Latin America. Arranged chronologically and spanning more than two
centuries (1775-2005), itgives bibliographic information
about sfnovels, anthologies,
magazines, and key short stories originally published in Spanish or Portuguese. The
listings are prefaced by an essay that reviews the genre's and its major
development
exponents in each country and region studied. The bibliography also contains a directory
of primary works available in English translation and concludes with a guide to relevant
critical essays.