Post-Boomboom

A mathematics professor by training, Alberto Vanasco (1925–1993) was born in Buenos Aires and published his first novel, in 1947. His second effort, 1957) was made into a film in 1964 with the title Among his other non-SF works are the novels 1967), 1977), 1983), and 1987); the award-winning play 1948); two collections of poems, 1954) and1962); and the essay “Life and Works of Hegel” (“Vida у obra de Hegel,” 1973). As for Vanasco’s genre work, in the Spanish-speaking SF community his name is associated with Eduardo Goligorsky, since they were coeditors of the two groundbreaking sf anthologies 1966) and 1967). Vanasco later edited 1977).

“Post-boomboom,” from belongs to the tradition of the postholocaust rebuilding of civilization, but departs from it in several respects, since the main characters are not “savage men” who restore society in the end, nor do contemporary images of the lost world appear as references. The protagonists’ efforts to recover traces of scientific knowledge to pass on to their unpromising children have an ironic, tragicomical effect.