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- Title
Traces of 'Hard' Science in Selections from Tirso Aguimana de Veca's Una temporada en el más bello de los planetas.
- Authors
GóMez, Michael A.
- Abstract
In Historia y antología de la ciencia ficción española (2014), Julián Díez and Fernando Ángel Moreno trace a trajectory for the Spanish science fiction genre: an initial phase, from the mid-nineteenth century to the Civil War, in which production is inspired more by scientific fantasy and utopia than by 'hard' science such as physics; a second period coinciding with the Francoist dictatorship, characterized by a curtailing of SF production; third, a renaissance beginning in the 1980s, defined by a growing interest in 'coherencia científica'. In their estimation of nineteenth-century SF Díez and Moreno are not alone – see, for example, the work of Carlos Sainz Cidoncha and José-Carlos Mainer. However, as Dendle suggests in 'A Romantic Voyage to Saturn' (1968), there were few attempts to produce scientifically coherent SF in nineteenth-century Spain, but there were some. Outstanding among them are those of the histologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal and, less well known, Tirso Aguimana de Veca's Una temporada en el más bello de los planetas (1870–1871). It is to this work and, specifically, to a study of its keen interest in physical theories – an aspect previously ignored – that we turn our attention in this study.
- Subjects
UNA temporada en el mas bello de los planetas (Book); AGUIMANA de Veca, Tirso; SPANISH science fiction; SCIENCE in literature; ASTRONOMY in literature; PHYSICS in literature
- Publication
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839), 2019, Vol 96, Issue 3, p269
- ISSN
1475-3839
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3828/bhs.2019.16