Robu, Cornel
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.
(1938-2016) Romanian lecturer in literature (at Cluj-Napoca University) and sf critic, some of whose many articles have appeared in English, including "A Key to Science Fiction: The Sublime" (Spring 1988 Foundation #42) and "Milestones in Postwar Romanian Science Fiction" (Summer 1990 Foundation). Panorama romanului românesc contemporan: 1944-1974 ["Panorama of the Contemporary Romanian Novel: 1944-1974"] (1974) with Ion Vlad is a useful survey, and includes sf authors. He edited the first reprint and critical edition (1986), with afterword in English, of the early Romanian sf novel În anul 4000 sau O cǎlǎtorie la Venus ["In the Year 4000, or A Voyage to Venus"] (1899) by Victor Anestin, and also edited the anthology of Romanian sf Timpul este umbra noastrǎ: Science-fiction românesc dinultimele douǎ decenii: Antologie comentatǎ ["Time is Our Shadow: Romanian Science Fiction 1969-1989: Anthology with Commentary"] (anth 1991), with an afterword in English. For the second edition of this encyclopedia Robu wrote the entry on Romania (which he substantially updated for the current edition) and contributed ideas to that on Sense of Wonder. [PN]
Cornel Robu
born Sighișoara, Romania: 23 September 1938
died Cluj-Napoca, Romania: 27 October 2016
works
- O cheie pentru science-fiction ["A Key to Science Fiction"] (Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2004) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Paradoxurile Timpulu în Science Fiction ["Time Paradoxes in Science Fiction"] (Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2006) [nonfiction: pb/]
- Scriitori români de science-fiction ["Romanian Writers of SF"] (Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2008) [nonfiction: binding unknown/]
works as editor
- Victor Anestin. În anul 4000 sau O cǎlǎtorie la Venus ["In the Year 4000, or A Voyage to Venus"] (Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Editura Dacia, 1986) [originally published 1899: with long introduction in Romanian, and afterword in English: pb/Mircea Baciu]
- Timpul este umbra noastrǎ: Science-fiction românesc dinultimele douǎ decenii: Antologie comentatǎ ["Time is Our Shadow: Romanian Science Fiction 1969-1989: Anthology with Commentary"] (Cluj-Napoca: Editura Dacia, 1991) [anth: binding unknown/]
- TWELVE of the Best Romanian SF Stories (Timişoara: Sedona Publishing House, 1995) [anth: pb/Eugenia Banciu]
- Teoria Pierde Omenia: Theory Kills Sympathy (Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2008) [nonfiction: anth: pb/]
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