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Leonardo Espinoza Benavides

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Leonardo Espinoza Benavides (a.k.a. Leo) is a Chilean physician-writer & editor specialized in science fiction. A dermatologist and venereologist with additional studies in psychodermatology, immunology, and general astronomy, he blends clinical science with speculative literature.

He is best known for Más espacio del que soñamos (2018, Puerto de Escape) and the short novel Adiós, loxonauta (2020, Sietch), recognized as a “book worth your consideration” by the International Latino Book Awards and winner of the Chilean Altísimo Award (Premio Altísimo) 2022. His work also ventures into experimental SF, as in Nomadismos del tiempo trifráctico (2022, Sietch).

Since 2008 his short fiction has been published in Latin America, Europe, the United Sta
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Más espacio del que soñamos

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Adiós, Loxonauta

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"Adiós, loxonauta" & sus apariciones

Quisiera compartir con ustedes una serie de enlaces donde ha podido aparecer esta querida novela que publiqué el año 2020 junto a Sietch Ediciones, "Adiós, loxonauta", un libro que me ha permitido una interacción maravillosa con colegas tanto lectores como escritores. ¡Ha sido un viaje fenomenal!

Comienzo con esta entrevista que me realizó Elaine Vilar Madruga, autora cubana, para la Asociación Her Read more of this blog post »
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Nomadismos del tiempo trifráctico by Leonardo Espinoza Benavides
" JL, largo tiempo que había repasado esta impresión de tu parte, pero ahora me doy el momento de realmente agradecerla. "
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" Muchas gracias, Julio! Aprecio tu lectura! "
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"Al igual que otro comentario, me tomé un tiempo para leer este libro. Cada mañana de camino al trabajo, intentaba leer uno o dos cuentos. A diferencia de otros libros de cuentos, estos no siguen una cierta línea, o como podríamos decir, no pareciera " Read more of this review »
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“Escribo sobre gente simple en mundos complejos: personas pequeñas que desbordan sueños y anhelos, que lloran y fallan y sin embargo siguen encontrando algún sentido.”
Leonardo Espinoza Benavides

“Era una regla universal: toda criatura que tuviera vida, tenía las facultades de quitar la de otros.”
Leonardo Espinoza Benavides, Adiós, Loxonauta

“I hold the belief that art consists of an intimate contact, in all of its diverse manifestations, attaining its meaning through each individual apprehension; an eternal subjectivity looking for the perfectreceptor. As I learnt from filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, whose cinema and the one of his peers are equally indispensable to me, the ultimate purpose of any art is, in its totality, to enrich the soul in a necessarily imperfect world.”
Leonardo Espinoza Benavides

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
Ray Bradbury

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden. It is actually much simpler than that, otherwise art would have no meaning. You have to be a child—incidentally children understand my pictures very well, and I haven’t met a serious critic who could stand knee-high to those children. We think that art demands special knowledge; we demand some higher meaning from an author, but the work must act directly on our hearts or it has no meaning at all.”
Andrei Tarkovsky

“El problema de la literatura fantástica y el subdesarrollo (...) está en plena vigencia. Contra los que pretenden subordinar la inteligencia al subdesarrollo esgrimiremos una arma poderosa: nuestra capacidad de extrapolarnos a cualquier planeta, al pasado o al futuro, a las entrañas del microcosmos o a los oscuros laberintos del inconsciente y desde allí —desde mi punto de vista cuya perspectiva puede proporcionar una objetividad casi marciana— haremos una crítica feroz y constructiva (...) Así pues tal vez entiendan los hombres cibernéticos que la science fiction no es escapismo: en nuestro es encuentro.”
René Rebetez

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