EUtopias and Other Futures: A European Journal of Science Fiction

By Péter MARTON ** Join the  European Science Fiction group  on Facebook for related discussions. ** In this new format, I will post one-paragraph/one-sentence briefs on books and short stories of interest, saving you (as well as for myself) a lot of time even as I hope to still be able to give you enough information to make up your mind as to whether you're interested in the given story. It might be useful to add that I very much remain interested in writing longer reviews of anthologies and novels, too -- this is just an additional trick to pull from the bag to keep things going and keep you posted. First up in Briefings on Readings is Celle qui n'avait pas peur de Cthulhu  (The One Who Wasn't Afraid of Cthulhu) by Karim Berrouka : At times light entertainment, mixing comedy and action, at times lightly philosophical, this book gives you a mildly critical take on the body of work by Lovecraft (and also about religion) and takes you on a ride through the wor...

Le Quartier Haussmannien dans la "brune", as French commentators sometimes joke about the movie... By Cseperke TIKÁSZ ** Join the  European Science Fiction group  on Facebook for related discussions. ** The key to a good disaster movie may be how the creators combine the bigger picture with the micro perspective of characters we can care about. Think Kate and Jack in Titanic. In this French SF movie, Just a breath away ( Dans la brume - 2018 ), we have a micro/family drama but we do not get anything like the bigger picture. We are left without answers as to the basic whys of the story. After a sudden earthquake, Paris is covered by a murderous smoke. Everyone envoloped by this mysterious smoke, breathing it in, is dead in seconds, but it stops somewhere between the 4th and 5th floor level and only very-very slowly continues to rise. So there remain survivors. One of them is the character played by Romain Duris (you might know the guy from The Spanish Apartment/L...