The Spirit of Science Fiction

The Spirit of Science Fiction (Spanish: El espíritu de la ciencia-ficción) is a novel written by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño around 1984 and published posthumously. It was published in Spanish in 2016; an English-language translation by Natasha Wimmer was published in 2018 by Picador and in February 2019 by Penguin.Although unpublished at his death, The Spirit of Science Fiction was one of Bolaño's first completed novels, the manuscript bearing the inscription "Blanes, 1984", and reviewers saw it as a precursor to The Savage Detectives.