Welcome #

This website is a miscellaneous portfolio of fiction and non-fiction texts I write, read and translate. I produce my original writings both in [language] and in [language] —my native language—, considering which I also translate some of my own work. My favourite literary genre is science fiction. I also enjoy certain kinds of fantasy, and historical fiction. Furthermore, I have a fundamental interest in philosophy, which I perpetually cultivate. Cōgitō ergō quaerō. Quaerō ergō legō. Legō ergō sum.^[1]

Navigate to the main categories via the uppermost retractable menu. All pages contain their own general index, and each of the larger titles (the level 1 headings) displays a corresponding hyperlink to their right.

On Science Fiction #

When I use the term “science fiction” I usually include what the authors of the excellent The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction call genre science fiction, as well as what I like to call science fiction sensu stricto. By the latter I mean an orientation that is congruent with the definition developed by Darko Suvin in his Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre (1979, rev. 2016), i. e. not strictly or necessarily determined by science, technology or the future, but:

[...] by the hegemonic literary device of a locus and/or dramatis personae that (1) are radically or at least significantly different from the empirical times, places, and characters of “mimetic” or “naturalist” fiction, but (2) are nonetheless —to the extent that SF [sic] differs from other “fantastic” genres, that is, ensembles of fictional tales without empirical validation— simultaneously perceived as not impossible within the cognitive (cosmological and anthropological) norms of the author's epoch.

For more about this and other treatments through the history of the genre, I recommend reading the article “Definitions of SF”, in the aforementioned encyclopedia (eds John Clute and David Langford, 4th edn, 2021).

On Free (Libre) and Open-Source Software #

Though I am not a software developer or other kind of information technology specialist, it behoves me to indicate that I concur with free (libre)^[1][2] and open-source^[3] software (FOSS^[4]), as well as the overlap with digital privacy and security. It is based on this interest that I use the tools and services I have selected for certain functions, in accordance with my necessities, and within my possibilities — which, naturally, tend to allow only for a partial alleviation of the ethical problems in this juncture. The fediverse^[1][2] might have the most constructive and sustainable future. You can consult my GitHub profile to view the programs and developers I follow there. Certainly, I also recommend the famous Arch Linux wiki, a trove of information.

Acknowledgments #

My thanks to Divya Ranjan for his guidance on HTML, CSS, GNU/Linux and related FOSS matters, website hosting, etc. I likewise value our conversations on philosophy and psychoanalysis.

I thank writers Forrest Cameranesi and Herries Anderton for allowing me to bring extracts of their respective works into Spanish.

The CSS featured here is my slightly customized version of awsm.css, created by Igor Adamenko. Previously, I was using my version of Simple.css, created by Kev Quirk. They are classless by default, and I write this website in semantic HTML.

Contact #

1. Based on Descartes's famous quote, cōgitō ergō sum (“I think, therefore I am”), my personal and partially humorous adaptation means: “I think, therefore I seek. I seek, therefore I read. I read, therefore I am.”^[↑]