Anuário Brasileiro de Literatura Fantástica: Ficção científica, fantasia e horror no Brasil em 2005

• Published in: Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 2008, Vol.19 (3 (74)), p.422-425
• Main Author: Ferreira, Rachel Haywood
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Subjects: Reviews; Verne, Jules (1828-1905)
• ISSN: 0897-0521

With a print run of one hundred copies and a print quality that makes details such as accents difficult to discern, the Anuário exemplifies the problems Brazilians face on the supply side of fantastic literature in securing professional publication and distribution services, and, on the demand side, the difficulty of access on the part of potential consumers. The subsequent inclusion of seven pages of prizes awarded in the US and Great Britain (among them the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, British Science Fiction, and British Fantasy awards) is justified by the editors by the long tradition of these awards and because the lists provide a reading guide for those who read English and "a reliable reference on the state of the genre in its two most important markets" (1) . [...]limited budget and lack of staff meant that the editors had to operate with a potentially wide margin of error for the statistics given, that some information for the bibliographies was obtained secondhand, and that inclusion in this volume was in part determined by which authors and publishers sent their publications to the editors (v, 44) . [...]throughout the 2005 Anuário there are scattered indications of the changing landscape of the Brazilian fantastic.