New short story online…

The short story ‘The White Shield House” is online at Kalkion, a multicultural web based SF/F magazine.

This story first appeared in my short story collection ‘AnaCrônicas’ as ‘A casa do escudo azul’ – the color change has a good reason, indeed – but it’s very different in tone and plot.

Hope you like it.

And many thanks to Fábio Fernandes, co-editor at Kalkion and the responsable for this piece’s publication.

Update

As WorldCon approaches – I’ll take the plane tomorrow to arrive at Montreal Wednesday morning – it’s time to Pack up and make the last arrangements.

I’m part of ConReporter crew. Check out the other members at their website. A bunch of good people dedicated to make WorldCon closer to you!

There’s two more activities that I didn’t mention in my last post:

- Friday, August 7 at 10:00 AM in P-521A, I will be in Broad Universe’s Rapid Fire Reading, with Kathy Sullivan, Phoebe Wray, Camile Alexa, Inanna Arthen, Elaine Isaak, Trisha Wooldridge, Cecilia Tan, Elissa Malcohn, Roberta Rogow, Odellia Firebird, Julia Dvorin, Kim Vandervort, Jody Lynn Nye, Ellen Dunham

- Saturday, at 11 am, I’ll participate in a workshop section with Delia Sherman and Elaine Isaak.

And don’t even mention the parties and the signings. Oh, my gods, the signings. So MANY writers I absolutely adore! How will I manage to meet all of them?

This will be my last post before departing. So, see you all at Montreal!

Anticipation – 67th Worldcon – Programme Schedule

As some of you might know, I’m going to Anticipation, the 67 th Worldcon, to be held in Montreal, Canada. I volunteered to be an active participant, eager to have the most of the experience of an international con as I could get.

Today, when the last obstacle was left behind, I can proudly announce my schedule to WorldCon. I’ll be in tables about medieval history and literature, about cultural traits and in two about the Lusophone Science Fiction World. It’ll be great to share what we all are doing in Brasil and Portugal.

Below, where you’ll be able to find me at WorldCon, besides Broad Universe table and party. (Hotel? For what? Sleeping? I can sleep at home, thanks)

When: Fri 9:00

Location:  P-511A
Title:  Through Loyal Eyes: How the Chronicler Olivier de La Marche Built Charles Duke of Burgundy
Session ID:  988
All Participants:  Ana Cristina Campos Rodrigues
Moderator:  <Not Available>
Description:  Ana Cristina Rodrigues is a Brazilian historian with a PhD in medieval history, and writer and president of the Science Fiction Reader’s Club (CLFC)
Duration:  1:00 hrs:min
Language:  English
Track: Human Culture

When: Fri 14:00

Location:  P-512CG
Title:  Food: Ancient, Modern, Future, Near and Far
Session ID:  901
All Participants:  Ana Cristina Campos Rodrigues, Cecilia Tan, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Jon Singer, Richard Foss
Moderator:  Cecilia Tan
Description:  We can write worlds and cultures through food. Food can tell us about trade routes and taboos. Food service can tell us about
economic and social units. Food can tell us about love.
Duration:  1:30 hrs:min
Language:  English

When: Sat 10:00

Location:  P-524C
Title:  Des Pyrénées à la Terre de Feu : la SF en espagnol et en
portugais
Session ID:  436
All Participants:  Ana Cristina Campos Rodrigues, Thibaud Sallé, Jean-Pierre Laigle, Georges Bormand
Moderator:  Thibaud Sallé
Description:  De nombreux univers de la SF s’écrivent en espagnol ou en portugais, en Europe comme dans les Amériques. Venez en apprendre
plus.
Duration:  1:00 hrs:min
Language:  French
Track: Literature in French

When: Sat 14:00

Location:  P-524A

Title:  Non North American Fandoms
Session ID:  966
All Participants:  Alon Ziv, Ana Cristina Campos Rodrigues, Carolina Gomez Lagerlof, Janice Gelb, Martin Hoare, Georges Bormand
Moderator:  Janice Gelb
Description:  Science Fiction is our common interest but how is SF celebrated in countries like Russia, Australia, Israel, Brazil, and Sweden?
Duration:  1:30 hrs:min
Language:  English
Track: Fan

When: Mon 10:00

Location:  P-524C
Title:  Imago Mundi Facticii :  Un miroir faussé
Session ID:  429
All Participants:  Ada G. Palmer, Ana Cristina Campos Rodrigues, Thibaud Sallé, Anne-Isabelle François
Moderator:  Thibaud Sallé
Description:  Quel rapport entre la France médiévale et la fantasy?
Des spécialistes nous livrent un verdict instructif.
Duration:  1:00 hrs:min
Language:  French
Track: Literature in French

And now it begins!

I have postponed my first english post for a few weeks. I was afraid of my baaad english and of having nothing relevant to say.

But, you know, the best way to learn something is making mistakes.  And so, it begins.

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Yes, there’s a brazilian Science Fiction. And it’s not new. It has a long story, beginning in the XIXth century with some Verne-influenced writers, like Augusto Zaluar, comes trough the XXth Century with names like Monteiro Lobato, Menotti Del Pichia and Dinah de Queiros.

But that’s History – and altough I’m a historian who works with documents and research for a living, it is not the purpose of this blog.

This is blog is about been a brazilian SF/Fantasy writer and the search for a place at the sun. Any one of the 4,5 billion.

Our market is a little too closed for novelties and is very difficult to make the breaktrough in a major publisher. Until now, all I got was some short stories in anthologies and a short story collection of my own.  

I’ve decided to make my horizons broader, to put my english lessons to the test and start a international carreer. So, here I’m.