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9780853239321

View from Another Shore European Science Fiction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780853239321

  • ISBN10:

    0853239320

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-01-05
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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A second edition, with a completely new contextual introduction and other new material, of a superb selection (first published in 1973 and for long out of print) of some of the best science fiction from continental Europe. Included are stories by Stanislaw Lem (Poland), Vsevolod Ivanov (Russia), Eurocon-award winner Adrian Rogoz (Romania), Herbert W. Franke (Germany), Wolfgang Jeschke (Germany), Gerard Klein (France) and others.

Author Biography


Franz Rottensteiner has been the editor of Quarber Merkur, the leading German language critical journal of science fiction, since 1963. In 2004, on the occasion of the hundredth number of this journal, he was awarded a special Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi
Introduction vii
Franz Rottensteiner
In Hot Pursuit of Happiness
1(41)
Stanislaw Lem
The Valley of Echoes
42(9)
Gerard Klein
Observation of Quadragnes
51(18)
J.-P. Andrevon
The Good Ring
69(13)
Svend Age Madsen
Slum
82(5)
Herbert W. Franke
The Land of Osiris
87(56)
Wolfgang Jeschke
Captain Nemo's Last Adventure
143(24)
Josef Nesvadba
The Altar of the Random Gods
167(8)
Adrian Rogoz
Good Night, Sophie
175(23)
Lino Aldani
The Proving Ground
198(17)
Sever Gansovsky
Sisyphus, the Son of Aeolus
215(18)
Vsevolod Ivanov
A Modest Genius
233(15)
Vadim Shefner
Notes on the Authors 248

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