The SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Masterpieces of Science Fiction from the Continent

by James Morrow, Kathryn Morrow

Overview

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) on The SFWA European Hall of Fame

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765315373
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/15/2008
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

James Morrow is the award-winning author of over ten novels, as well as novellas and short-story collections. His critically acclaimed works include Blameless in Abaddon, New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and The Last Witchfinder called "provocative book-club bait" and "an inventive feat" by critic Janet Maslin. He has twice received the World Fantasy Award, for Only Begotten Daughter and Towing Jehovah, and has also won the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife and their two enigmatic dogs.

Kathryn Morrow collaborates with her husband, James Morrow. The Morrows live in Pennsylvania but have been traveling as guests to the European SF conference in Nantes, France, every year for the last decade. They have many connections among the European writers and publishers, and have worked for years to assemble the translations in The SFWA European Hall of Fame, selecting and polishing the stories.

Table of Contents

Separations / Jean-Claude Dunyach
Birch Tree, White Fox / Elena Arseneva
Sepultura / Valerio Evangelisti
The Fourth Day to Eternity / Ondrej Neff
Yoo Retoont Sneogg Ay Noo / Marek S. Huberath
The Day We Went Through the Transition / Ricard de la Casa
Athos Emfovos in the Temple of Sound / Panagiotis Koustas
Some Earthlings' Adventures on Outerria / Lucian Merisca
Destiny, Inc. / Sergei Lukyanenko
Wonders of the Universe / Andreas Eschbach
A Night on the Edge of the Empire / João Barreiros
Transfusion / Joëlle Wintrebert
Verstummte Musik / W.J. Maryson
Between The Lines / José Antonio Cotrina
Baby Doll / Johanna Sinisalo
A Blue and Cloudless Sky / Bernhard Ribbeck

Editorial Reviews

A ground-breaking anthology. . . . The stories in The SFWA European Hall of Fame are not quite like any sf I've read before. Like much of the best sf, these stories tend to be allegorical, often absurdist, existential, and just plain weird. . . . You would be hard pressed to find another anthology whose works were more different from one another—and from the stories you're accustomed to—than this one. It's a mind-opening journey.”” —Cory Doctorow

“Wondrous worlds await US 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)

From the Publisher

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 Angelisti's "Sepultura," which offers a neo-Dantean Infernoscape; and W.J. Maryson's "Verstummte Musik," a Dutch 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)

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