The SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Masterpieces of Science Fiction from the Continent
Author: | Kathryn Morrow James Morrow |
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Synopsis
A new SFWA Hall of Fame anthology
These powerful SF stories represent the best writers and stories in most of the major contemporary European languages. Editors James and Kathryn Morrow spent years working with translators to achieve sharp, polished, entertaining versions of these stories in English. This anthology belongs in every library of SF, personal or public.
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments - essay by James Morrow and Kathryn Morrow
- Introduction: Extrapolations of Things Past: A Barbarously Brief Account of European Science Fiction from Micromégas to Microchips - essay by James Morrow
- Separations - shortstory by Jean-Claude Dunyach (trans. of Séparations 2005)
- A Birch Tree, A White Fox - shortstory by Elena Arsenieva
- Sepultura - shortstory by Valerio Evangelisti (trans. of Sepultura 1998)
- The Fourth Day of Eternity - shortstory by Ondrej Neff
- Baby Doll - (2007) - novelette by Johanna Sinisalo (trans. of Baby Doll 2002)
- "Yoo Retoont, Sneogg. Ay Noo." - shortstory by Marek S. Huberath (trans. of "Wróciees Sneogg, wiedziaam..." 1987)
- The Day We Went Through the Transition - (1998) - shortstory by Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero (trans. of Ed día que hicimos la Transición 1997)
- Athos Emfovos in the Temple of Sound - shortstory by Panagiotis Koustas
- Some Earthlings' Adventures on Outerria - shortstory by Lucian Merisca
- Destiny, Inc. - shortstory by Sergei Lukyanenko (trans. 2001)
- Wonders of the Universe - shortstory by Andreas Eschbach (trans. of Die Wunder des Universums 1997)
- A Night on the Edge of the Empire - shortstory by João Barreiros
- Transfusion - (1991) - shortstory by Joëlle Wintrebert (trans. of Transfusion 1988)
- Verstummte Musik - shortstory by W. J. Maryson (trans. of Verstummte Musik 2005)
- Between the Lines - shortstory by José Antonio Cotrina (trans. of Entre líneas 2000)
- A Blue and Cloudless Sky - novelette by Bernhard Ribbeck (trans. of En blå og skyfri himmel 1996)
- About the Translators - essay by uncredited
- About the Editors - essay by uncredited
- Select Bibliography - essay by uncredited
- Story Copyrights - essay by uncredited
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