Hungarian science fiction

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Hungarian science fiction comprises books and films in the fiction genre produced all across Hungary. [1]

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Early examples

Kuczka and Pohl date the beginnings of Hungarian science fiction to the late eighteenth century, following Enlightened examples from NorthWestern Europe. [2] Two early examples they note are György Bessenyei's Tarimenes utazdsa (The Voyage of Tarimenes) (1804) and Sandor Barotzi's A mostani adeptus (The Adept of Our Days) (1810), Ferenc Ney's Utazds a Holdba (Voyages to the Moon) (1836), Miklós Josika's Yegnapok (The Last Days) (1847), and prominently Mór Jókai's Jövő század regénye (Novel of the Next Century) (1872).

Some of Jókai's pupils continued this tradition: Titusz Tovolgyi's Az uj vilag (The New World) (1888), and Istvan Makay's novel Repidogeppel a Holdba (By Airplane to the Moon) (1899).

Translation of foreign authors was important, such as works by Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Albert Robida, Edward Bellamy, J.-H. Rosny aîné,, Jerzy Żuławski, and Jack London.

Early twentieth century

During this period the literary magazine Nyugat (The West) was a key promoter of the genre. Prominently, some of the works by Frigyes Karinthy, Sándor Szathmári, and Mihaly Babits gained popularity.

Kádar era

During the Kádár era (1956-1989), the work of Péter Kuczka, particularly his translation of Anglo-American science fiction was key in promoting the genre. According to Sohár, up to 1965, translation occurred indirectly vía publications in Russian, including works by Isaac Asimov. [3] A Science Fiction Work Committee was formed in the Hungarian Writers' Union that run the quarterly journal, SF Tajekoztato. [2]

Authors

Films

Animation

Magazines

Galaktika was a science fiction magazine of Hungary, published between 1972 and 1995. The peak of 94,000 copies was very high (compared to the population of Hungary [pop. 10 million] while Analog magazine was printed in 120,000 copies in the United States [pop. well over 200 million]), when reached its peak period, it was one of the largest science-fiction magazines of the world, and the quality of individual volumes was high.

A newer publication with the same name has been published since 2004 that is known for its practice of translating and publishing works without obtaining the permission of the authors and without paying them. [20]

Video games

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Hungary at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
  2. 1 2 Kuczka, Péter; Pohl, Frederik (1982). "Science Fiction in Hungary" . Extrapolation. 23 (3): 213–220. doi:10.3828/extr.1982.23.3.213 . Retrieved 8 August 2025.
  3. ↑ Sohár, Anikó (2023). "From the United States(via the Soviet Union) to Hungary The first Asimov translations in the Kádár era". Pázmány Papers. 1 (1): 195–212. doi: 10.69706/PP.2023.1.1.12 . Retrieved 8 August 2025.
  4. ↑ "Alraune (1918) la SilentEra". Archived from the original on 2017-12-04. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  5. ↑ Wingrove, David. Science Fiction Film Source Book (Longman Group Limited, 1985)
  6. ↑ The Adventures of Pirx
  7. ↑ The Adventures of Pirx, origo.hu
  8. ↑ A feladat
  9. ↑ Zsoldos Péter: A feladat (Móra Ferenc Könyvkiadó, 1976) ISBN   9632111354
  10. ↑ "11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 3 April 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  11. ↑ Hernádi Gyula (1971). Réz Pál (ed.). Az erőd. Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó. pp. 5–254.
  12. ↑ "Football of the good old days (Régi idők focija) (dir. Pál Sándor, 1973)". Hungarian Culture Centre. Archived from the original on 21 November 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
  13. ↑ "21st Moscow International Film Festival (1999)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 22 March 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  14. ↑ Review of Pater Sparrow's Stanislaw Lem adaptation "1" Archived 2018-04-29 at the Wayback Machine , quietearth.us
  15. ↑ Billington, Alex (21 August 2011). "Indie Trailer Sunday: Steampunk Sci-Fi 'Thelomeris' Stunning Teaser". firstshowing.net. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  16. ↑ Hart, Hugh (22 August 2011). "Thelomeris Trailer: Mark Hamill's Hungarian Steampunk Sci-Fi". WIRED. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  17. ↑ Scott, Jordan (7 June 2008). "Les Maîtres du temps". Le Palais des dessins animés. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
  18. ↑ Ito, Robert (2012-11-09). "Living Through Animated Millenniums". The New York Times . Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  19. ↑ Varga, Ferenc (2011-10-12). "Végre bemutatják Jankovics Marcell 23 éve készülő filmjét". Origo (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  20. ↑ Rambo, Cat (26 September 2016). "The Galaktika Situation". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America . Retrieved 29 September 2016.
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