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Barceló, Miquel

Entry updated 29 December 2025. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor, Fan.

(1948-2021) Spanish computer-systems and aeronautical engineering professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, translator, editor and author; he also directed the polytechnic's PhD program on Sustainability, Technology and Humanism. He founded and edited the Fanzine Kandama from 1980 until its discontinuation in 1984, publishing both translations of noteworthy English-language authors and Spanish-language authors who would later become important figures themselves, including Domingo Santos, Rafael Marín Trechera, and Elia Barceló. He was most well-known in his role as a professional editor of sf and fantasy books from 1986, in which year the publisher Ediciones B launched its Nova genre imprint with Barceló at the helm. For this imprint he edited many anthologies of Premio UPC prizewinning stories beginning with Premio UPC 1992 (anth 1993), uncredited.

As an sf scholar, he is best known as the author of Ciencia ficción: Guía de lectura ["Science Fiction Reader's Guide"] (1990), followed twenty-five years later by Ciencia ficción: Nueva Guía de lectura ["Science Fiction: A New Reader's Guide"] (2015). He co-authored the sf novel El otoño de las estrellas ["The Autumn of the Stars"] (2001) with Pedro Jorge Romero. He revised the entry for Spain in the second edition of this encyclopedia. He was also a columnist for the computer magazine Byte. He should not be confused with the painter Miquel Barceló (1957-    ). [PN/DKn/DRL]

Miquel Barceló Garcia

born Mataró, Catalonia, Spain: 1948

died Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain: 22 November 2021

works (selected)

  • El otoño de las estrellas ["The Autumn of the Stars"] (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 2001) with Pedro Jorge Romero [pb/Gemma Pellicer and Raúl García]

nonfiction

works as editor

series

Premio UPC

  • Premio UPC 1992 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 1993) uncredited [anth: Premio UPC: pb/Juan Miguel Aguilera]
  • Premio UPC 1993 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 1994) uncredited [anth: Premio UPC: pb/Trazo]
  • Premio UPC 1994 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 1995) uncredited [anth: Premio UPC: pb/Trazo]
  • Premio UPC 1995 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 1996) uncredited [anth: Premio UPC: pb/Trazo]
  • Premio UPC 1996 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 1997) uncredited [anth: Premio UPC: pb/]
  • Premio UPC 1997 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 1998) uncredited [anth: Premio UPC: pb/]
  • Premio UPC 1998 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 1999) uncredited [anth: Premio UPC: pb/Gemma Pellicer, Raúl García]
  • Premio UPC 1999 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 2000) uncredited [anth: Premio UPC: pb/]
  • Premio UPC 2000 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 2001) uncredited [anth: Premio UPC: pb/]
  • Premio UPC 2001 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 2002) [anth: Premio UPC: pb/]
  • Premio UPC 2002 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 2003) [anth: Premio UPC: pb/]
  • Premio UPC 2003 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 2004) [anth: Premio UPC: pb/]
  • Premio UPC 2004 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 2005) [anth: Premio UPC: pb/Sara Salvador]
  • Premio UPC 2005 (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 2006) [anth: Premio UPC: pb/]
  • XVI Premio UPC (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 2007) [anth: Premio UPC: pb/]
  • XVII Premio UPC (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 2008) [anth: Premio UPC: pb/]

individual titles as editor

  • Cronopaisajes (Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones B, 2003) with Peter Haining [anth: trans of Haining's Timescapes (anth 1997) with new introduction and two added Spanish stories: pb/Sara Salvador]

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