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This paper examines Elia Barceló's collection of stories Sagrada [Sacred, 1989]. Firmly within the conventions of science fiction (high technology, exploration and colonization of other worlds, alien species, etc.), the collection stands out for its intense reflection on emotional bonds between humans and nonhumans and for placing female characters at the center of this web of relationships. This paper shows how women's roles in these stories not only renew the generic codes of sf, giving prominence to mother and goddess figures, but also deconstruct the literary representations of the feminine by challenging the idea of woman as life-giver and rejecting the idea of women in love as passive and defenseless.

El objeto de estudio de este trabajo es la narrativa fantástica juvenil y, concretamente, la novela El efecto Frankenstein, de Elia Barceló. El éxito editorial de la narración no mimética entre los jóvenes convierte esta modalidad en la herramienta más apropiada para el fomento del hábito lector. Igualmente, la ampliación de las posibilidades del subgénero para introducir nuevos modelos y para cuestionar los límites de los estereotipos sexo-genéricos es cada vez más fructífera. El efecto Frankenstein es una novela fantástica que dialoga también con la ciencia ficción y aprovecha los rasgos propios de la narración no mimética para llevar a cabo una reconstrucción histórica de los conceptos de sexo y género, así como de las desigualdades tanto de género como de clase social.

This article examines the way in which the future of Europe is imagined in European cinema, especially in European speculative fiction and science fiction. The first part of this article discusses the dynamics and parameters within which European science fiction and European science fiction cinema navigate when they imagine the future face of Europe and the construction of pan-European identities. The second part of the article focuses on one example as a case study of cultural transfer to illustrate these processes: Damir Lukačević's film Transfer (2010, Germany), an adaptation of Mil euros por tu vida (2003), a short story by the Spanish science fiction writer Elia Barceló. The discussion pays attention to the cultural translation process from literature to film, from a Spanish to a German context, and to the changing image of the future. In drawing on other examples from contemporary European science fiction cinema for comparison, the analysis shows that both texts align with a wider European discourse on migration and race and, more specifically, are examples of a European imaginary that envision the future of Europe as shaped by Europe's colonial past, persistent racism, and continuing exploitation of the Global South.

Translated from the Spanish, The Goldsmith's Secret by Elia Barcelo (MacLehose Press) this 2003 prizewinner is dedicated to singer/poet Leonard Cohen. With its opening sentence \"4.00am.

\"El caso del artista cruel (The Case of the Cruel Artist),\" by Elia Barcelo, is reviewed.

Elia Barcel. El vuelo del Hipogrifo. Madrid. Lengua de Trapo. 2002. 448 pages. euro19.50. ISBN 84-89618-87-9

Set in recognizable places for Spanish readers, and in a time very near the present, these stories speak about current subjects of a personal and social nature: the excess of violence and unscrupulous behavior towards the most disadvantaged, exaggerated protectionism and social control, the ideals of health, beauty, and eternal youth over other values, etc.