Science Fiction from Turkey in InterNova

About one and a half year ago I had the luck of being contacted by Ünver Alibey, a Cyprus-based Turkish writer and editor who became aware of InterNova, the international science fiction magazine that I edit in collaboration with writers, editors, and translators from all over the world. Ünver’s special field of interest is science fiction from the Mediterranean area, which includes strong connections to the science fiction scene in continental Turkey. On my suggestion that it might be interesting to compile an InterNova theme issue about Turkish science fiction he got to work with more determination than I had expected and presented me within two months with a high-quality selection of craftly translated stories almost all over which were interesting for InterNova.

The results of his efforts are now available to our readers in the tenth issue of InterNova that I have uploaded this week: eight stories by Cem Can, Selin Arapkirli, Funda Özlem Şeran, Nur İpek Önder Mert, Tuğrul Sultanzade, Tolga Aydin, Onur Selamet and Özgür Hünel, as well as a historical survey of Turkish science fiction by Özgür Tacer. I’m sure our readers will be impressed by the overall quality of the writing just as I was.