Special Events

Please join our "Latin America Writes Back: Science Fiction in the Global Era" symposium guests for the following special events:

Sat. October 29, 10:00am-11:30

Writer's workshop in Spanish, The Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures, "La Casita," 1504 West University Avenue, led by Edmundo Paz-Soldán.

Open to the Gainesville community, prizes for best stories. Spanish speakers from the community and the university may participate. Final versions of stories to be sent to RLL by Feb. 1, 2006. A panel of judges will notify the winners by March 1.

Sat. October 29, 1:00-3:00 pm

Screening of film MOEBIUS, Hippodrome Theater, 25 SE 2nd Place

Free and open to the public
Presentation by the director, Gustavo Mosquera

Sat. Oct. 29 4:00-5:30 pm

Book signings and Wine Reception, Goerings Bookstore West
3433 W. University Avenue in Gainesville. Tel. 378-0363.

Works of related interest to the symposium will be available at Goerings Bookstore West.

• Fiction:
  
  • Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain (Wesleyan UP, 2003), co-edited by Andrea Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán.
  • The Movies of My Life (HarperCollins 2003) by Chilean author Alberto Fuguet.
  • The Matter of Desire (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), and Turing's Delirium (forthcoming HarperCollins) by Bolivian author Edmundo Paz-Soldán.
• Literary Criticism:
  
  • Test Tube Envy: Science and Power in Argentine Narrative (Bucknell UP, 2005), by J. Andrew Brown.
  • Brazilian Science Fiction (Bucknell UP, 2004) by M. Elizabeth Ginway

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