Description:A sampler of ФантА Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction, released for CoNZealand, the 2020 Worldcon.We—all human and non-human beings on this planet—live in an age that needs ever more bridges, both across the world and to the future. That’s why we—the members of Terra Fantasia and the Human Library, two creative communities from Bulgaria—offer you this sampler of ФантАstika. It is our hope that it will help build some of those bridges. It will be our joy if any of its stories manages to transport you to a place where you feel more complete, more at home, closer to what you dream to be. Or what you dream our world to be.As for the complete ФантА Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction, the big sister of this sampler, it’s still looking for its own home. As are all the novels whose excerpts we’ve included here. If you can point us to anyone who can offer them a home—agent, editor, or publisher—please find us at poslednorog-AT-gmail-DOT-com. Or tell us if you wish to read ФантАstika, all five hundred pages. Or talk about the new places it has taken you and the new dreams it has given you.We are standing next to you, listening.Kalin M. NenovP.S. There is a bonus story in this sampler which couldn’t make its way into the big ФантАstika. Can you spot it?ContentsTerra Fantasia Association of Bulgarian SF & F Writers and Artists / 7Human Library Foundation / 12ФантАstika Almanac: origins and visions / 14Introductory notes / 16Alternative reading orders / 18Science Fiction / 22 Dimitar Yankov / 22“Love in the Time of Con Crud” by Elena Pavlova / 33“How I Saved the World, Or, The Best Job” by Valentin D. Ivanov / 40The Celestial Way by Drake Vato (excerpts) / 64 Atanas P. Slavov / 123“The Most Terrible Beast” by Khristo Poshtakov / 156 Kalin Nikolov / 161“The Resolutions” by Atanas P. Slavov / :-) Stefan Lefterov / 185Fantasy & Magic Realism / 197To Wake a Dragon Girl by Nikolay Tellalov (excerpt) / 199 Kate Danailova / 216“The Assassination” by Johan Vladimir / 222 Plamen Semkov / 253I, Sinner Ivan by Nikolay Svetlev (excerpt) / 262The Coin by Lights amidst Shadows (excerpt) / 273 Peter Stanimirov / 295Orpheus Descends into Hell by Georgi Malinov (excerpt) / 333“The Dragon and the Orange Juice” by Genoveva Detelinova / 356Avant-garde Speculative Fiction / 373“Impossibly Blue” by Zdravka Evtimova / 374“Asked the Soldier, ‘Who Called Me?’” by Yancho Cholakov / 378“The Film-thin Bound” by Kalin M. Nenov / 432Chirpy Firewood by Maria Velcheva (excerpts) / 434“In the Beginning Was the Subway” by Lyubomir P. Nikolov / 465 Georgi Markov / 479Fandom / 485Ivan Yefremov SF & Futurology Club / 485Chronicles of Ivan Yefremov SF Club / 486Futurum / 502“The Keresztury TVirs” by Ivan Popov / 503Acknowledgments / 510We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with ФантАstika: Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction: CoNZealand Sampler. To get started finding ФантАstika: Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction: CoNZealand Sampler, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
362
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
The Human Library, Terra Fantasia
Release
2020
ISBN
ФантАstika: Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction: CoNZealand Sampler
Description: A sampler of ФантА Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction, released for CoNZealand, the 2020 Worldcon.We—all human and non-human beings on this planet—live in an age that needs ever more bridges, both across the world and to the future. That’s why we—the members of Terra Fantasia and the Human Library, two creative communities from Bulgaria—offer you this sampler of ФантАstika. It is our hope that it will help build some of those bridges. It will be our joy if any of its stories manages to transport you to a place where you feel more complete, more at home, closer to what you dream to be. Or what you dream our world to be.As for the complete ФантА Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction, the big sister of this sampler, it’s still looking for its own home. As are all the novels whose excerpts we’ve included here. If you can point us to anyone who can offer them a home—agent, editor, or publisher—please find us at poslednorog-AT-gmail-DOT-com. Or tell us if you wish to read ФантАstika, all five hundred pages. Or talk about the new places it has taken you and the new dreams it has given you.We are standing next to you, listening.Kalin M. NenovP.S. There is a bonus story in this sampler which couldn’t make its way into the big ФантАstika. Can you spot it?ContentsTerra Fantasia Association of Bulgarian SF & F Writers and Artists / 7Human Library Foundation / 12ФантАstika Almanac: origins and visions / 14Introductory notes / 16Alternative reading orders / 18Science Fiction / 22 Dimitar Yankov / 22“Love in the Time of Con Crud” by Elena Pavlova / 33“How I Saved the World, Or, The Best Job” by Valentin D. Ivanov / 40The Celestial Way by Drake Vato (excerpts) / 64 Atanas P. Slavov / 123“The Most Terrible Beast” by Khristo Poshtakov / 156 Kalin Nikolov / 161“The Resolutions” by Atanas P. Slavov / :-) Stefan Lefterov / 185Fantasy & Magic Realism / 197To Wake a Dragon Girl by Nikolay Tellalov (excerpt) / 199 Kate Danailova / 216“The Assassination” by Johan Vladimir / 222 Plamen Semkov / 253I, Sinner Ivan by Nikolay Svetlev (excerpt) / 262The Coin by Lights amidst Shadows (excerpt) / 273 Peter Stanimirov / 295Orpheus Descends into Hell by Georgi Malinov (excerpt) / 333“The Dragon and the Orange Juice” by Genoveva Detelinova / 356Avant-garde Speculative Fiction / 373“Impossibly Blue” by Zdravka Evtimova / 374“Asked the Soldier, ‘Who Called Me?’” by Yancho Cholakov / 378“The Film-thin Bound” by Kalin M. Nenov / 432Chirpy Firewood by Maria Velcheva (excerpts) / 434“In the Beginning Was the Subway” by Lyubomir P. Nikolov / 465 Georgi Markov / 479Fandom / 485Ivan Yefremov SF & Futurology Club / 485Chronicles of Ivan Yefremov SF Club / 486Futurum / 502“The Keresztury TVirs” by Ivan Popov / 503Acknowledgments / 510We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with ФантАstika: Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction: CoNZealand Sampler. To get started finding ФантАstika: Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction: CoNZealand Sampler, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.