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Awesome Review for Cosmobotica
Tony Pi just let me know of a new review of the Dieselpunk anthology. One that has good things to say about our story Cosmobotica: “After Dragonfire, my favorite story was Cosmobotica, by Costi Gurgu and Tony Pi. This took me by surprise since this was the kind of story I’d have expected to find in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine or Analog,circa 1970. That’s usually not my kind of thing. The combination of an interesting story, lovely writing and a character I cared about all combined to make this a delightful read.”
Ordinary World – Episode 2
Back in communism, they did not publish too many, yet a lot. Not many titles, but always around a hundred thousand copies of each. If you wonder why on Earth so many copies were published for a country with a small population of around 20 million, the answer is simple. Everything was centralized and the entire country got its sources from the center. From Bucuresti and the Communist Party. So, when they printed a book, they made sure it reached every corner of the country, every bookstore, every library, every school. And that’s a lot.
In a way the Communism was a writer’s Golden Age and Dark Ages wrapped up in a bundle.
Is There Something I Should Know? – Episode 1
My decade in Canada allowed me to discover a lot of misconceptions, omissions and twisted truths held by North American readers about European speculative fiction.
Let me tell you a story about me and the world I grew up in.
Cosmobotica
I know that for some of you this is old news, but for my website and blog is new. I also think this makes a good first post. So here it is:
Costi’s writing in “Short History of Romanian Speculative Fiction”, 2013
The art of Costi Gurgu lies on how he balances his characters perceptions of reality, as well as their moral motivations, between curiosity and greed, fear and sense of adventure. Short History of Romanian Speculative Fiction by Catalin Badea-Gheracostea, published in...
“Chronicles from the End of the World”, Helion review, 2012
Chronicles from the End of the World show Costi Gurgu again in the position of a complex writer, master of a wide array of stylistic tools, able to mix in subtle dosages the reality and the imaginary of fantastic origin. The secret of his recipe seems to be a carousel...