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Lädt ... The SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Masterpieces of Science Fiction from the Continentvon James Morrow (Herausgeber), Kathryn Morrow (Herausgeber)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Nice survey: short stories from French, Russian, Italian, Czech, Finnish, Polish, Spanish, Greek, Romanian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, and Danish. The names of some authors (Johnna Sinisalo) and translators (Michael Kandel) are already well-known. I read this in bits and pieces broken up over more than a year. Sinisalo's, Huberth's, and Cotrina's stories stick with me the most. Sinislo's is a truly frightening story of the sexualization of young girls that terrifies by being so plausible; Huberth's has a delightful transition in language that parallels the characters' development; and Cotrina's has a neat premise of there being other books within the negative space/white space of books. I was surprised by the number of stories ending with the narrator's death, which used to be something that editors used to tell writers to avoid. The introductions are valuable for more exploring. ( ) Wow. We in the US are really missing out because we are so stuck in the English Language. No doubt, this collection’s strength comes from the fact that it is allowed to pick the very best (spanning over 20 years). Any collection spanning such a timeframe should be strong. But, even with that leg up, there are definite knock your socks off stories contained herein. And it seems obvious that the European culture has brought a different, and exciting, slant to the story-telling. But for a very few exceptions, I ended each story having to take a breath and absorb what I read. These stories were different, these were exciting, these made me want to read more. These showed that we in the States need to open our doors to more of what the foreign world has to offer. Read this collection of stories and expand what you think you know about science fiction – particularly science fiction written outside the English language. There are no "masterpieces" here but there are a few excellent stories (I wholeheartedly recommend the selections by Johanna Sinisalo, Lucian Merişca, Sergei Lukayenko and Andreas Eschenbach) along with much that seems tired and lackluster. A number of the stories actually seem much closer in feel and form to standard European literary fantasy than science fiction-not a bad thing in itself but perhaps misleading for a reader looking for science-based tales. (José Antonio Cotrina's 'Between the Lines, a Borgesian tale, is a clear example of this: a pleasant and entertaining story but in no way science fiction). Both the opening and closing entries (by Jean-Claude Dunyach and Bernhard Ribbeck, respectively) are rather weak (the time travel issues in the Ribbeck story are no more sophisticated than you'd find in your average 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' episode) and the introduction and introductory paragraphs before each story are just plain awful. While I bought this in hardcover when it was first released, excited at the thought that European science fiction might finally be given its due in the English-speaking world, I don't think I'd do the same now that I've read the book. I support the idea but the execution here is fairly poor. Introduction: Extrapolations of Things Past, A Barbarously Brief Account of European Science Fiction from Micromegas to Microchips James Morrow Separations Jean-Claude Dunyach$ A Birch Tree, A White Fox Elena Arsenieva Sepultura Valerio Evangelisti The Fourth Day to Eternity Ondrej Neff Baby Doll Johanna Sinisalo Yoo Retoont, Sneogg. Ay Noo." Marek S. Huberath The Day We Went Through the Transition Ricard De La Casa & Pedro Jorge Romero Athos Emfovos in the Temple of Sound Panagiotis Koustas Some Earthlings' Adventures on Outrerria Lucian Merisca Destiny, Inc. Sergei Lukyanenko Wonders of the Universe Andreas Eschbach A Night on the Edge of the Empire Joao Barreiros Transfusion Joelle Wintrebert Verstummte Musik W. J. Maryson Between the Lines Jose Antonio Cotrina A Blue and Cloudless Sky Bernhard Ribbeck Zeige 4 von 4
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A new SFWA Hall of Fame anthology from european contemporary masters These powerful science fiction 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. "Wondrous worlds await U.S. fans in this sensitively chosen, impeccably translated anthology of Continental European science fiction stories. These 'disciplined speculations' by European writers and their painstaking translators not only excite the mind, they move the heart." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) onThe SFWA European Hall of Fame Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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