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On January 20 the Argentine radio station “La voz de las madres” (Voice of mothers) in its program “Venezuela es el sur” (Venezuela is the south) interviewed the Venezuelan writer Susana Sussmann. The reason of the interview was the current call by the Asociación Venezolana de Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía (Venezuelan Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy) to edit an anthology of Venezuelan Science Fiction; Sussmann is part of the group of evaluators of this anthology. During the 8 minutes of the chat, Sussmann talked a little about of the literary and publishers scenario in Venezuela, The current proliferation of new editorial enterprises and the energy with which Venezuelan editorial world is supporting the emergence of new literary signatures. However the emphasis of Sussmann was in the Venezuelan Science Fiction, particularly in fantastic literature; both of which, despite not enjoying the full benefits of the mainstream literature, have managed to walk its own path and express their own voices with personality. His final words were of optimism and hope for the future of the Venezuelan SF.

You can hear the audio of the interview (spanish) in http://quarksdesabores.podomatic.com/enclosure/2008-01-20T16_17_05-08_00.mp3

The Venezuelan science fiction and fantasy Association (Asociación Venezolana de Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía – AVCFF) has called to Venezuelan writers to participate in an anthology of science fiction. The idea is to establish a collection of fiction books on science fiction, fantasy and terror whose first title is this anthology. The purpose of the anthology is to gather all Venezuelan SF writers of today in one book. The anthology is made up of stories from 3000 to 10000 words and is expected to will be published at the end of the year 2008. 

The writer R. R. Mota appeared in the Necronomicón # 16 with his story “El loto negro” (“The Black Lotus”). This is the first collaboration of Mota with Necronomicón. The story is an horror tale related to the myths of Cthulhu and tells the story of a flower cursed condemning those who see it. Mota is a young Venezuelan writer passionate about the visions of the genius of Providence. He host a forum on H. P. Lovecraft.  Necronomicón is a Venezuelan fanzine that publish very short Horror stories of writers of Latin America and Spain. It’s been on-line since 2004.   

The Venezuelan writers Alejandro Sosa Briceño and Susana Sussmann both published two short stories in the digital magazine “Crónicas de la Forja”. The magazine gathers the work of the participant writers in the literary workshop “Los Forjadores”. The story of Sosa Briceño is titled “Simulacro” (“Simulacrum”) and the one of Sussmann is titled “Ups!” Both stories talk about asteroids, planetary catastrophes and virtual reality.  

In the digital magazine “Vórtice en línea” #10 appeared published the story of Jorge De Abreu, “Método científico” (Scientific Method). The same story had been published before, although translated to the Italian, at the beginning of year in the collection “Schegge di futuro” compiled by Gianluca Turconi. “Método científico” is a science fiction history that mocked the scientific work and criticizes some of its ethical deviations. An issue of “Vórtice en línea” #10 can be downloaded from the address: http://www.vortice.elparnaso.com/vorticeenlinea10.pdf