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

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:

“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...

“Chronicles from the End of the World”, Nautilus review, 2011

The first thing I liked about Chronicles at the End of the World is how Gurgu mixes the “Canadian” stories with the “Romanian” ones,  succeeding in creating a melange that brilliantly illustrates the different ways of writing SF and Fantasy, and the extreme thematic...