Fantasy

What to do if the state in which you live is ruled by an autocratic monarch, supported by a gang of oligarchs, insolent bureaucrats and generals? What to do ...

Michael Kandel occasionally translates science fiction from Polish (Stanislaw Lem’s The Cyberiad), occasionally acquires science fiction for Harcourt Brac...

What should a conscientious citizen do during a zombie virus pandemic? Self-isolate by wearing a muzzle? What if he is just a sheep, a beast whose destiny is...

The fusion of physics and religion takes an unexpected turn in Lawrence Person’s…

The hero of the story travels in a time machine into the past to change the lives of “lost writers who created magnificent things and vegetated in squalor.” ...

Ever since finishing his acclaimed new novel, Jack Faust (Avon), Michael Swanwick has had an outpouring of short fiction. We’ve been lucky to be c the rec...

The hero of the story returns home and sees how the basketball backboard is being removed from his house - it will no longer be needed, because his son, his ...

Alexander Kabakov’s novel “The Writer” can be classified as political fiction, although it contains incomparably more realities of modern life than fantasy.<...

“The Shortest Night,” like the author’s earlier story, “The Tragedy of Solveig” (December 1996), takes place in the world of Kaleva. This planet is the ve...

He built his Time Machine by accident, from his own nerve plexus, responsible for perception and intuition. The car set its own destination. The first was th...