In this issue Roberto Mendes and Ricardo Loureiro have managed to bring together another great collection of story art and non-fiction writing from around the world. The fiction section features works by previous World Fantasy Award winners including Ken Liu.
The non-fiction section features an interesting interview with Zoran Živković on the fantastical tradition in European writing:
The term “fantastika”—used in slightly different ways in many European languages—doesn’t seem to have a satisfactory English equivalent. It could have been “fantasy” if that term hadn’t been reduced to a marketing label that means “Tolkienesque” fiction.
Fantastika is by no means limited to that narrow section of the spectrum. It is, in fact, the spectrum itself—all nonmimetic prose. Nearly 70 percent of everything written during the past five thousand years is nonmimetic and belongs to one of many forms of fantastika: folklore, oneiric, fairytale, epic, and so forth.
There’s also a wonderful profile of Romanian artist George Munteanu, that’s worth a look (note the cover image is his as well).
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