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This piece in long-running Science Fiction magazine Locus surveys trends in contemporary Brazilian Science Fiction.

This article breaks down Brazilian SF by means of Periodization: sectioning off different time periods in the history of Brazilian SF in terms of its relationship to the literary and social context at the time.

This book is a larger survey of the history of SF in Latin America. It corrects erroneous notions about the genre as a European import, instead highlighting the emergence of SF as a global phenomenon that has had a sense of cultural specificity, in Brazil and elsewhere, since its inception.

The first chapter of this book focuses heavily on “Tupinipunk” writing in Brazil; a work that enmeshes the aesthetics of “cyberpunk” fiction with aspects of Brazilian national identity, indigenous cultures, and local ideas about spiritualism.

This chronology details the evolution of Brazilian SF, starting in the middle of the 19th century.