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Leonardo Espinoza Benavides

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‘Leo’ is a Chilean physician-writer & editor specialized in science fiction. As a doctor, he is a specialist in dermatology and venereology, with studies in psychodermatology and immunology. As a writer, he is best known for his short story cycle Más espacio del que soñamos (2018), set for a cinematographic adaptation by filmmaker Jorge Zavala, and Adiós, loxonauta (2020), recognized as a ‘book worth your consideration’ by the International Latino Book Awards and winner of the Chilean Altísimo Award (Premio Altísimo) 2022 for Best Work Published in 2020-2021. His most recent publication is Nomadismos del tiempo trifráctico (2022), an experimental SF short story collection. He’s currently serving as director of the Chilean SF&F Association ( ...more

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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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“To me science fiction is not a pastime. It’s the artistic expression from the literary world that nourishes me in transcendental aspects; the expression in which I encounter a unique rejoicing, satisfying an elemental hunger of my personality.”
Leonardo Espinoza Benavides

“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

“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

“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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