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It has had as forerunners Braulio Tavares’s antho­logy Páginas do Futuro: Contos Brasileiros de Ficção Científica (Pages of the Future: Brazilian SF Short Stories 2011) Nelson de Oliveira’s huge, ambitious and multiple award-winning Fractais Tropicais: O Melhor da Ficção Científica Brasileira (Tropical Fractais: The Best of Brazilian SF 2018) and my anthology series Os Melhores Contos Brasileiros de Ficção Científica (Best Brazilian SF Short Stories 2007), Os Melho­res Contos Brasileiros de Ficção Científica: Fronteiras (Borders 2009), and As Melhores Novelas Brasileiras de Ficção Científica (Best Brazilian SF Novellas 2011). Lovecraft.Ī curious, inspiring trend gathered momen­tum in the past two years: the coming back of Brazilian SF and horror works from the past. We also saw other bestselling books less related to the current turmoil, like Stephen King’s It, Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology, Dean Koontz’s The Eyes of Darkness, Stephanie Meyer’s Midnight Sun, and several story collections and boxes of works by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Finally, Editora Pandorga, which has a line of luxury-bargain books, announced a slipcase with both classics in hardcover for January 2012. The same Cia das Letras produced and released a graphic-novel adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four done by artist Fido Nesti. Editora Aleph released both of Orwell’s classics with pop-comics artcovers done by Brazilian graphic designer Butcher Billy, and powerful Companhia das Letras released the books as local Penguin Classic editions, in addition to a hip hardcover edition. Publishing companies rushed to ride that wave with new translations of Orwell’s works, since he went into the public domain in 2020. These works are mostly dystopian novels such as The Handmaid’s Tale & The Testaments, Fahrenheit 451, Nine­teen Eighty-Four & Animal Farm, Brave New World, alongside Albert Camus’s La Peste (The Plague) and other books that clearly show Brazilians trying to figure out their authoritarian, conservative, bleak times. Most economy sectors have been impacted – yet, surprisingly, translated science fiction novels became a sure-footed presence in the bestselling lists. As I write this, the official death-toll is just over 200,000, and there’s no town or city in the country free of cases. Under a denialist president, Brazil has suffered dearly with the COVID-19 pandemics.