EUtopias and Other Futures: A European Journal of Science Fiction

By Péter MARTON ** Join the  European Science Fiction group  on Facebook for related discussions. ** Published by Ad Astra (a Hungarian SF publishing house that operated from 2012 to 2018) as the third volume in a series of similar, thematically organised collections, this is a much weaker anthology of Hungarian authors' works than the one I wrote about here during the holidays. Whereas that one was world-class, this one feels more like the output of a distant colony of the SF universe... with due respect to some exceptions to this mentioned below. Even so, it is very interesting to read a volume like this, because the dividing line between good and bad is very strongly visible here (this also shows the importance of editing, I guess). Some authors just don't take what they write seriously enough and what they publish feels like they just wanted to get it over with, even if that took finding the cheapest, stupidest cliché one could think of in the given situation ...

A bottle of mineral water By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** At the risk of stating the obvious, you should read this review mostly only if you're familiar with the short story it is about. So this is where you can find the story , in the April 2017 issue of Clarkesworld . The author is Bogi Takács ( link to author page ) who describes oneself as "a Hungarian Jewish agender trans person and a resident alien in the US," and prefers to be referred to with the "e" personal pronoun in the third person. *** ¡El review! Sub-genre. This is far future SF. Key themes . Being left behind. Being used. Humanity regarding animals around them as somehow not "really" intelligent or sentient beings, using this as justification to do with them and with their environment whatever seems rational to them. With the coming effects of climate change looking rather nasty now , these ...