(från Planetasf-listan. --AE) * SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Science Fiction Classics from the Continent EDITED BY JAMES MORROW AND KATHRYN MORROW. Tor, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-765-31536-6 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 Evangelisti's "Sepultura," which offers a neo-Dantean Infernoscape; and W.J. Maryson's "Verstummte Musik," a 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. (June) PUBLISHERS WEEKLY . MARCH 12, 2007 *********************** CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction EXTRAPOLATIONS OF THINGS PAST A Barbarously Brief Account of European Science Fiction from Micromégas to Microchips by James Morrow Jean-Claude Dunyach SEPARATIONS Translated from the French by Sheryl Curtis Elena Arsenieva BIRCH TREE, WHITE FOX Translated from the Russian by Michael M. Naydan and Slava I. Yastremski Valerio Evangelisti SEPULTURA Translated from the Italian by Sergio D. Altieri Ondrej Neff THE FOURTH DAY TO ETERNITY Translated from the Czech by Jeffrey Brown Johanna Sinisalso BABY DOLL Translated from the Finnish by David Hackston Marek S. Huberath "YOO RETOONT, SNEOGG. AY NOO." Translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero THE DAY WE WENT THROUGH THE TRANSITION Translated from the Spanish by Yolanda Molina-Gavilán and James Stevens-Arce Panagiotis Koustas ATHOS EMFOVOS IN THE TEMPLE OF SOUND Translated from the Greek by Mary and Gary Mitchell Lucian Merisca SOME EARTHLINGS' ADVENTURES ON OUTRERRIA Translated from the Romanian by Cezar Ionescu Sergei Lukyanenko DESTINY, INC. Translated from the Russian by Michael M. Naydan and Slava I. Yastremski Andreas Eschbach WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE Translated from the German by Doryl Jensen João Barreiros A NIGHT ON THE EDGE OF THE EMPIRE Translated from the Portuguese by Luis Rodrigues Joëlle Wintrebert TRANFUSION Translated from the French by Tom Clegg W. J. Maryson VERSTUMMTE MUSIK Translated from the Dutch by Lia Belt José Antonio Cotrina BETWEEN THE LINES Translated from the Spanish by James Stevens-Arce Bernhard Ribbeck A BLUE AND CLOUDLESS SKY Translated from the Danish by Niels Dalgaard -- ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx/tel 073-68622[53+mercersdag] Pangram för 29 sv bokstäver: Yxskaftbud, ge vår wczonmö iqhjälp! ----- SKRIVA - sf, fantasy och skräck * Äldsta svenska skrivarlistangrundad 1997 * Info http://www.skriva.bravenet.com eller skriva- request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx för listkommandon (ex subject: subscribe).