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- Title
Science Fiction in Chile.
- Authors
Maure, Remi
- Abstract
Chile could not lay claim to any indigenous SF until 1959. That year, however, marked the first appearance in print of Hugo Correa, who remains the most prolific as well as the best writer of SF that Chile has so far produced. Los Altissimos (The Superiors, 1959), his first book (of five, to date) is something of a classic, certainly an auspicious beginning to a ‘Golden Age’ of Chilean SF. Second to Correa is Antonio Montero Abt, with three SF titles to his credit—most notably, Acá del tiempo (This Side of Time, 1969). But Montero apparently ceased writing after 1970, and no one else of talent among his compatriots has since devoted her or himself of writing SF exclusively and in quantity. There is, perhaps predictably, one renowned ‘mainstream’ author, Miguel Arteche, who momentarily condescended to an S-F future history, El Cristo hueco (The Empty Christ, 1969). And among the SF books of the '60s, those of Armando though they have written little and that little entirely in the form of short fictions. So, too, among '70s' writers, Carlos Ruiz-Tagle and José Bohr can be singled out, especially the latter for his Mañana hacia el ayer (Tomorrow Towards Yesterday, 1975). And finally, just for the record, there also exist some execrable SF stories by Roberto von Bennewitz and René Peri Fagerstrom. Chile's ‘Golden Age’ has proved to be short-lived: it lasted until about the time of Allende's overthrow—until 1975, to be precise—since which time SF activity in the country has virtually come to a complete halt.
- Subjects
CHILE; SCIENCE fiction; FICTION writing; CORREA, Hugo; MONTERO, Antonio; LITERATURE; ADVENTURE stories
- Publication
Science Fiction Studies, 1984, Vol 11, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
0091-7729
- Publication type
Literary Criticism