* SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Science Fiction Classics from the Continent
EDITED BY JAMES MORROW AND KATHRYN MORROW. Tor, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-765-31536-6
Wondrous worlds await U.S. SF fans in this sensitively chosen, impeccably translated anthology of Continental European science fiction stories, ranging from 1987 to 2005. Offering "emotional satisfaction and cerebral excitement," as James Morrow puts it in his introduction, highlights include Johanna Sinisalo's "Baby Doll," a Finnish denunciation of materialistic exploitation of children; Romanian Lucian Merisca's "Some Earthlings' Adventures on Outrerria," an excruciating political satire; Valerio Evangelisti's "Sepultura," which offers a neo-Dantean Infernoscape; and W.J. Maryson's "Verstummte Musik," a near-future Orwellian nightmare. A French twist on human-machine interface lifts Jean-Claude Dunyach's "Separations" into a meditation on the nature of artistic creativity, while Elena Arsenieva's "A Birch Tree, a White Fox" exquisitely illustrates the quintessential Russian soul. These "disciplined speculations" by European writers and their painstaking translators not only excite the mind, they move the heart. (June)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY . MARCH 12, 2007
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
EXTRAPOLATIONS OF THINGS PAST
A Barbarously Brief Account of European Science Fiction from Micromégas to Microchips by James Morrow
Jean-Claude Dunyach
SEPARATIONS Translated from the French by Sheryl Curtis
Elena Arsenieva
BIRCH TREE, WHITE FOX Translated from the Russian by Michael M. Naydan and Slava I. Yastremski
Valerio Evangelisti
SEPULTURA Translated from the Italian by Sergio D. Altieri
Ondrej Neff
THE FOURTH DAY TO ETERNITY Translated from the Czech by Jeffrey Brown
Johanna Sinisalso
BABY DOLL Translated from the Finnish by David Hackston
Marek S. Huberath
"YOO RETOONT, SNEOGG. AY NOO." Translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel
Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero
THE DAY WE WENT THROUGH THE TRANSITION
Translated from the Spanish by Yolanda Molina-Gavilán and James Stevens-Arce
Panagiotis Koustas
ATHOS EMFOVOS IN THE TEMPLE OF SOUND Translated from the Greek by Mary and Gary Mitchell
Lucian Merisca
SOME EARTHLINGS' ADVENTURES ON OUTRERRIA Translated from the Romanian by Cezar Ionescu
Sergei Lukyanenko
DESTINY, INC. Translated from the Russian by Michael M. Naydan and Slava I. Yastremski
Andreas Eschbach
WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE Translated from the German by Doryl Jensen
João Barreiros
A NIGHT ON THE EDGE OF THE EMPIRE Translated from the Portuguese by Luis Rodrigues
Joëlle Wintrebert
TRANFUSION Translated from the French by Tom Clegg
W. J. Maryson
VERSTUMMTE MUSIK Translated from the Dutch by Lia Belt
José Antonio Cotrina
BETWEEN THE LINES Translated from the Spanish by James Stevens-Arce
Bernhard Ribbeck
A BLUE AND CLOUDLESS SKY Translated from the Danish by Niels Dalgaard
