Romanian Science Fiction

	Romanian Science Fiction Romanian science fiction began in the 19th century and gained popularity in Romania during the second half of the 20th century. While a few Romanian science fiction writers were translated into English, none proved popular abroad. Early years The country's earliest science fiction story is Al. N. Dariu's ''Finis Romaniae'' (1873), an alternate history short story which presents the history of Romania after the sudden death of Carol I and a revolution against the new prince, which declares Romania a republic. The following story was '' Spiritele anului 3000'', a utopia written two years later, in 1875, by a teenager under the pen name "Demetriu G. Ionnescu", who would later become the statesman Take Ionescu. The short story is set in the year 3000, when the earth is populated by humans of small stature who reach maturity by age 15. Politically, the monarchies have been abolished, with all the states being republics and part of a world confederation. Religion and wars have disappea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Alternate History Alternate history (also alternative history, althist, AH) is a genre of speculative fiction of stories in which one or more historical events occur and are resolved differently than in real life. As conjecture based upon historical fact, alternative history stories propose ''What if?'' scenarios about crucial events in human history, and present outcomes very different from the historical record. Alternate history also is a subgenre of literary fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction; as literature, alternate history uses the tropes of the genre to answer the ''What if?'' speculations of the story. Since the 1950s, as a subgenre of science fiction, alternative history stories feature the tropes of time travel between histories, and the psychic awareness of the existence of an alternative universe, by the inhabitants of a given universe; and time travel that divides history into various timestreams. In the Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Romanian Revolution The Romanian Revolution ( ro, Revoluția Română), also known as the Christmas Revolution ( ro, Revoluția de Crăciun), was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world. The Romanian Revolution started in the city of Timișoara and soon spread throughout the country, ultimately culminating in the drumhead trial and execution of longtime Romanian Communist Party (PCR) General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena, and the end of 42 years of Communist rule in Romania. It was also the last removal of a Marxist–Leninist government in a Warsaw Pact country during the events of 1989, and the only one that violently overthrew a country's leadership and executed its leader; according to estimates, over one thousand people died and thousands more were injured. Following World War II, Romania was placed under the Soviet sphere of influence in 1947 with Communist rul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cristian Tudor Popescu Cristian Tudor Popescu (; often referred to as CTP; born October 1, 1956) is a Romanian journalist, essayist, engineer, short-story writer and political commentator. Author of science fiction stories during his youth, he also hosted talk shows for various television stations, and had contributions as a literary critic and translator. Popescu was the editor-in-chief of '' Adevărul'', and, in 2005, he founded the newspaper ''Gândul'' in association with Mircea Dinescu. He was also the president of the Romanian Press Club until November 2006, when he resigned his office over an issue regarding the representation of journalists in the Club. He was re-elected president on February 10, 2007. Based on opinion polls, he was designated Romania's best journalist four years in a row 2005–2008. Biography A native of Bucharest, he graduated Politehnica University in 1981, majoring in automation engineering. Popescu began writing fiction during the communist regime, focusing on his jour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Hard Science Fiction Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell's '' Islands of Space'' in the November issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction''. The complementary term soft science fiction, formed by analogy to hard science fiction,) first appeared in the late 1970s. The term is formed by analogy to the popular distinction between the "hard" (natural) and "soft" (social) sciences, although there are examples generally considered as "hard" SF, such as Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' series, built on mathematical sociology. Science fiction critic Gary Westfahl argues that neither term is part of a rigorous taxonomy; instead they are approximate ways of characterizing stories that reviewers and commentators have found useful. History Stories revolving around scientific and technical consistency were written as early as the 1870s with the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Vladimir Colin Vladimir Colin (; pen name of Jean Colin; May 1, 1921 – December 6, 1991) was a Romanian short story writer and novelist. One of the most important fantasy and science fiction authors in Literature of Romania, Romanian literature, whose main works are known on several continents, he was also a noted poet, essayist, translator, journalist and comic book author. After he and his spouse at the time Nina Cassian rallied with the left-wing literary circle ''Orizont'' during the late 1940s, Colin started his career as a Communism, communist and Socialist realism, socialist realist writer. During the early years of the Communist Romania, Romanian Communist regime, he was assigned offices in the Censorship in Communist Romania, censorship and propaganda apparatus. His 1951 novel ''Soarele răsare în Deltă'' ("The Sun Rises in the Danube Delta, Delta") was an early representative of Socialist realism in Romania, local socialist realist school, but earned Colin much criticism from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Camillo Baciu Camillo is an Italian masculine given name, descended from Latin Camillus. Its Slavic cognate is Kamil. People with the name include: Camillo Agrippa, Italian Renaissance fencer, architect, engineer and mathematician Camillo Almici (1714–1779), Italian priest, theologian and literary critic Camillo Astalli (1616–1663), Italian cardinal Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour (1810–1861), a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification, founder of the original Italian Liberal Party and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia Camillo Berlinghieri (1590 or 1605–1635), Italian painter Camillo Berneri (1897–1937), Italian professor of philosophy, anarchist militant, propagandist and theorist Camillo Boccaccino (c. 1504–1546), Italian painter Camillo Boito (1836–1914), Italian architect, engineer, art critic, art historian and novelist Camillo Borghese (1550–1621), Pope Paul V, the Pope who persecuted Galileo Galilei Camillo Borghese, 6th Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sergiu Fărcăşan Sergiu is a Romanian-language given name that may refer to: Sergiu Băhăian Sergiu Celibidache Sergiu Dan Sergiu Floroaia Sergiu Klainerman Sergiu Nicolaescu * Sergiu P. Pașca Sergiu Samarian Sergiu Suciu Sergiu Suciu (born 8 May 1990) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian club Trento. Club career Sergiu moved to Italy with his parents at the age of 13 and soon became affiliated with Torino under club presi ... Romanian masculine given names {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Adrian Rogoz Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Adrianus or Hadrianus. Its ultimate origin is most likely via the former river Adria from the Venetic and Illyrian word ''adur'', meaning "sea" or "water". The Adria was until the 8th century BC the main channel of the Po River into the Adriatic Sea but ceased to exist before the 1st century BC. Hecataeus of Miletus (c.550 – c.476 BC) asserted that both the Etruscan harbor city of Adria and the Adriatic Sea had been named after it. Emperor Hadrian's family was named after the city or region of Adria/Hadria, now Atri, in Picenum, which most likely started as an Etruscan or Greek colony of the older harbor city of the same name. Several saints and six popes have borne this name, including the only English pope, Adrian IV, and the only Dutch pope, Adrian VI. As an English name, it has been in use since the Middle Ages, although it did not become common until modern times. Religion * Pope Adrian I (c. 700–795) * Pope Adrian II ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Radu Nor Radu may refer to: People * Radu (given name), Romanian masculine given name * Radu (surname), Romanian surname * Rulers of Wallachia, see * Prince Radu of Romania (born 1960), disputed pretender to the former Romanian throne Other uses * Radu (weapon), a Romanian radiological weapon * Radu, Iran (other), multiple places * A tributary of the Mraconia in Mehedinți County, Romania * A tributary of the Tarcău in Neamț County, Romania * Radu Vladislas, a fictional vampire and the primary antagonist of the ''Subspecies'' film series See also * Radu Negru (other) * Radu Vodă (other) Radu Vodă may refer to: * Negru Vodă, a 13th-century voivode of Wallachia (Romania) * Radu Vodă, a village in Lupșanu Commune, Călăraşi County * Radu Vodă, a village in Izvoarele Commune, Giurgiu County * Radu Vodă Monastery Radu Vod� ... * * Ruda (other) {{disambig, place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]