An alien race (the sowers) spreads life on selected planets of the Arm of Scutum-Crux. Every 802 years, the aliens return to harvest and annihilate everything to start over. But the settlers of the Arm of Orion are not resigned to their fate and decide to embark on an adventure with humans to find out the reason for all this accumulation of events. It is the argument ofThe Centaur’s Harvest, thescience fiction novelwritten by Eduardo Gallego Arjona and Guillem Sánchez Gómez who has won this year theUPC Science Fiction Award. The work will be published in the NOVA collection of Ediciones B.
The special mention of the award, which celebrates its eighteenth edition this year, has been for thenovela The Flowers of Vlau, by the Belgian writer Alain Le Bussy, in which a science journalist finds himself immersed in a plot to control the pelope, a very powerful medicinal plant.
The conference that traditionally accompanies the awards ceremony was given by theAmerican writer Lois Bujold, which throughout its career has won some of the genre’s most notable awards, such as Hugo, Nebula and Locus. “In science fiction today there is a lotfeeling of wonder“He said.” More people have greater access to more knowledge than ever before in history; world problems are many, but there are also many intellectual resources with which to deal with them. I see no reason why the genre that invented the sense of wonder should be trapped in the melancholy and gloom that is twenty years out of date. “
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