Bastion publishing house started on tuesday, 29th of april 2008, with a demonstation of force (as the public attendance also as the span of the announced editorial program). Leaded by the well knownd cultural animator Cornel Secu, it presented to the reader public with six brand new volumes, and the event from the lobby at the first floor of the Philharmonic orchestra of Banat was typical and atypical in the same measure.
It was typical because the book release („The antiquity in the Nietzsche's philosophy” by Gilda Valca, „The time of renunciation” by Marian Truta, „SF one” by Cristian Teodorescu, „The bold magnificent Java” by Brain d. Eubanks, „Flatland” by S.A. Abbot and „Lego – the constructor's unofficial guide” by Allan Bedford) attracted a lot of public and good words.
Atypical for an event of releasing books were the two artistic moments set by the director Mircea Puia in that evolved the actors Lavinia Oprescu and Adi Corec from the National Theatre Mihai Eminescu.
Among the ones on the release were Ioan Talpoş, the rector of the Universitatea de Vest, and Mircea Mihăieş, the vicepresident of the Romanian Cultural Institute, that noticed that „a very good strategy makes that the Bastion to pull out the town some value imposing local authors national wide while until now it was covered only the opposite route.”
Cornel Secu declared that he has as target the placing of the new publishing house in the top ten publishing houses in the country by the end of this decade. For the beginning the Bastion publishing house appeared with six titles, with 2 romanian SF-s („The time of renunciations” and „SF one”), but also „Flatland” by Edwin Abbot. About other 30 titles are already in the portofolio of the new publishing house, portfolio that annouces no less than 23 specialised collections as:
- Contor (coordinator Florin Dănilă – intended for marginal genres SF, F and A)
- Excentric (coordinator Ciprian Valcan – intended for frontier texts)
- Helion (coordinator Cornel Secu – intended to the SF)
- Insolit (coordinator Lucian V. Szabo – intended to the fantasy, horror, etc)
- John Clute presents (coordinator the literature critic John Clute, UK – intended for the foreign SF authors).
In the next period there are annouced to be released the books of authors like Ovidiu Pecican, Sergiu Farcaşan, George Anania, Ion Hobana, Cotizo Draia, Romulus Bărbulescu, Dănuţ Ungureanu, Costel Baboş, Lucian Merişcă, Lucian Szabo and Silviu Genescu.