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

James Morrow, Kathryn Morrow

Macmillan, Apr 15, 2008 - Fiction - 336 pages

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

Contents

• LUCIAN MERIŞCa Some Earthlings Adventures: 20
• JEANCLAUDE dunyach SEPARATIONS: 27
• ELENA ARSENIEva A Birch TREE A WHITE: 45
• VALERIO EVANGELISTI Sepultura: 60
• ONDŘEJ NEFF The Fourth Day to EterniTY: 86
• JOHANNA SINISALO BABY DOLL: 100
• MAREK S HUBERTH Yoo Retoont Sneogg Ay Noo: 124
• RICARD DE LA CASA AND PEDRO JORGE ROMERO THE: 155
• PANAGIOTIS KOUSTAS Athos Emfovos in THE TEMPLE: 172
• Translated from the Romanian by Cezar Ionescu: 183
• SERGEI LUKYANENKO DESTINY: 205
• ANDREAS ESCchbach Wonders of the UNIVERSE: 221
• JOÃO BARREIROS A NIGHT on the Edge of THE EMPIRE: 234
• JOËLLE WINTREBERT TRANSFUSION: 244
• W J MARYSOn Verstummte Musik: 252
• JOSÉ ANTONIO COTRINA BETWEEN THE LINES: 273
• BERNHARD RIBBECK A Blue and Cloudless: 291
• ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS: 325
• SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY: 331

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Masterpieces of Science Fiction from the Continent
• Editors: James Morrow, Kathryn Morrow
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2008
• ISBN: 0765315378, 9780765315373
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Science Fiction / General