Fremde Welten – Wege und Räume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert

Strange Worlds – Paths and Spaces of the Fantastic in the 21st Century

October 1^st of 2010 marks the beginning of a new era for the European fantastic as the Ger­man-based Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung e.V. (GFF) (Association for Research on the Fantastic) inaugurated itself at its first annual conference at the University of Hamburg. The four-day event from Sep 30th to Oct 3rd offered its participants more than one hundred and thirty talks in four different strands, both in English and in German, discussing key issues of the fantastic in Europe and especially in European academia.