About the Blogzine

This community blogzine will cover Europe and Europeans in Science Fiction. (Belated exclamation mark! In brackets!)

Explanation

"Europeans" may imply European authors as well as European characters. We are equally interested in what European authors have to say, and what happens, individually or collectively, to Europeans in science fiction. And in what happens there to Europe, for that matter.

Science fiction is understood here in a broad sense, in overlap with other genres, and at times presenting itself as something different but in reality containing some kind of SF element.

Find a longer explanation of our raison d'être here.

Forms in which we welcome contributions

• Short essays, in up to 1,000 words, about all that is mentioned above, under "Explanation."  They should all set out to answer clear questions, or have a clear focus. Please consider arranging proof-reading by a native English speaker before submitting text as our language-editing capacities are limited and this may be grounds for the rejection of a contribution.
• Reviews of works of fiction (written and other), or works of art in general, that are relevant to the theme of this blogzine.
• Flash fiction, in up to 1,000 words. European settings, characters and themes are given preference here.
• Pictures that may be interesting for a well-defined reason – to be illuminated in short and witty commentary for the audience of the blogzine.
• Other visual art.

Contributions in all of these forms may be submitted, with the least imaginable formatting (well, paragraphs are ok). Please take into account that this is not a for-profit undertaking, and thus no payment is offered. Only original contributions may be accepted, but the right to publish these elsewhere remains with the contributing authors.

Submit to: peter.marton at uni-corvinus (dot) hu (in the subject line, please add: "European SF").

Team

Péter Marton is chief editor (and founder as well as author) of this blogzine. He is Lecturer in International Relations at Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary, and also a writer of fiction himself.

Cseperke Tikász is a journalist (for the love of it) and analyses Mergers and Acquisitions (for a salary). Her articles have appeared in various Hungarian papers and magazines, including Magyar Nemzet, Globoport and Tropical Magazin.

The editorial team may grow in the future. (For this initiative to be successful, it will probably have to.)