Worlds and beings : Romanian contemporary science-fiction stories / selection and presentation of the texts by Horia Gârbea ; English translation by Magda Groza, Mihaela Mudure and Samuel Onn.
Flight over the silent mountain / Dănuț Ungureanu. A dash of kindness / Diana Alzner -- The bride from the garden / Rodica Bretin -- The crack / Aurel Cărășel -- The-Princess-from-the-Mirror / Sebastian A. Corn -- Where are you pedalling, Comrade Vasilescu? / Ștefana Cristina Czeller -- Angels, come out of your tombs! / Dan Doboș -- The most cheerful man on Earth / Antuza Genescu -- Wolds and beings / Antuaza Genescu -- MMXI (The shortcut) / Silviu Genescu -- The artefact / Mircea Liviu Goga -- Grey-Ray. The duty / Michael Haulică -- Rons, socketers and knots / Michael Haulică -- Among other mornings / Lucian Ionică -- All of the remaining days / George Lazăr -- Naked people on the streets / Victor Martin -- Out-of-the-Blue catastrophe / Lucian Merișca -- In a reddish light / Ovidiu Pecican -- Back to Black / Viorel Pîrligras -- Diplomatic relations / Florin Pîtea -- Omohom / Cristian Tudor Popescu -- El Dorado / Liviu Radu -- I remember the baker / Lucian Vasile Szabo -- Amnesia / Cristian Mihail Teodorescu -- The clouds and the sky / Marian Truță -- Flight over the silent mountain / Dănuț Ungureanu.
Summary:
"This anthology aims to provide the foreign reader with a number of significant samples of the works of a number of Romanian science fiction authors, predominantly dating from the last 25 years, which have produced some of Romania's best science fiction. It contains some of the shorter works of established authors who still possess considerable creative potential at no more than 60 years of age at the time the selection was made. Some - Liviu Radu, Cristian Tudor Popescu, Dănuț Ungureanu, Sebastian A. Corn, Michael Hăulică and Florin Pîtea among others - are acknowledged masters of the genre - not only among the communit of science fiction authors, but also literary critics as a whole, members of the Writers' Union of Romania and other authorities in the field. These are accompanied by the works of a number of young authors, who in recent years have published convincing, original material and who, in effect, represent a new generation of Romanian science fiction writers." --page 8.
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