The SFWA European Hall of Fame

A new SFWA Hall of Fame anthology
These powerful SF 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. James Morrow and Kathryn Morrow live in State College, Pennsylvania."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."--"Publishers Weekly"