Impossible Encounters

by Zoran Zivkovic, Alice Copple-Tosic (Translator), Youchan Ito (Other)

Overview

Six strangely related stories about six encounters that could or should have never happened. A post mortem encounter with a clerk who has a most bizarre offer; an elusive encounter with oneself, only decades older; a seemingly innocent encounter with a bookshop visitor who is desperately looking for an ordinary SF story; a memorable encounter with God in a train which, unfortunately, has to be forgotten; a dreamlike encounter with Devil in a Church as a first step on a road which doesn't lead to Hell; finally, a forbidden encounter of a dying author with one of his protagonists who brings an impossible book as a gift.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784908793127
Publisher:	Zoran Zivkovic
Publication date:	09/30/2019
Pages:	86
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author

Zoran Zivkovic is the author of The Book/The Author, The Fourth Circle, The Library, Seven Touches of Music, and Steps Through the Mist and the editor of the anthology Leviathan Three. He is the recipient of the 2003 World Fantasy Award, and his work has been published in 11 countries, produced for television, and optioned for film. He was named as a Guest of Honor for EuroCon 2007.

Editorial Reviews

• Impossible Encounters is a series of tales about, well, impossible encounters. The first line of "The Window" is "I died in my sleep." It then proceeds to recount what happens thereafter...--David Soyka, The New York Review of Science Fiction
• As might be expected of a European academic trained in literary theory, Zivkovic mingles postmodern flourishes--self-reflexivity, deconstructionist ruminations--with the materials of speculative fiction. Overall, he perhaps most strongly resembles Italo Calvino in the latter's fantastic vein. Surrealism, incongruous introspection, teasing narrative geometries, and startling systems of hyperbolic wit shape and illuminate his yarns, lending them an Escheresque elegance.--Nick Gevers, Locus
• The stories carry about them the feel of myth, of primal, perhaps archetypal, confrontation. Although the reader may not be aware of it as he or she progresses through the book, it becomes clear in retrospect that Zivkovic has consciously built towards his final story.--Michael Levy, The New York Review of Science Fiction
• Encounters that are impossible, encounters that are from beyond the boundaries of what we have decided is reality and possibility, and yet remain within the realms of what we call ordinary. They're quiet and soft in the nature of the extraordinariness. Subtle, delicate, and unassuming.--Tessa, Silence Without

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