John Ormsby (1829–1895)

This is the first version of the poem I read, way back in 1963. It sucked me into the world of the reconquesta. Although other translations are more accurate, and are more vivid like the one by Merwin, this does remain my first.

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This is the souvenir book of an exhibition about science fiction in the Barbican in London which I went to in June 2017, and don’t seem to have written up at the time. It’s a really wonderful collection of sf art, mainly book covers with some magazine covers, comics and stills from films or TV, combined with some decent essays by the likes of Andy Sawyer, Tade Thompson, Susan Stepney and Bruce Sterling. I show more particularly appreciated the piece on Soviet science fiction by Alyona Sokolnikova. show less