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description: stika: Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction is the first anthology introducing Bulgarian SF to the English-speaking world. It collects short fiction and novel excerpts by twenty-four authors originally written between 1978 and 2020. Most of the short fiction has been reprinted from professional magazines such as Oceans of the Mind Future Science Fiction Digest Compelling Science Fiction and DreamForge Anvil. Our authors have received dozens of national and several international awards including four European SF (ESFS) Awards: two Debut awards for Lights amidst Shadows and Genoveva Detelinova Best Work for Children for Elena Pavlova and Best Magazine for the Bulgarian version of stika. The almanac also contains about a hundred pages of full-color or black-and-white art by over a dozen Bulgarian artists.stika is a dream come trueboth for Atanas P. Slavov and the members of Terra Fantasia Association of Bulgarian SF &amp; F Writers and Artists who have dedicated half a century to the promotion of speculative fiction in Bulgaria and around the world and for Kalin M. Nenov and the Human Library Foundation who have translated human-evolving fiction into English since 2005. In an age when we need ever more bridges across the world and to the future stika comes to offer you some. Will you walk them?ContentsNote: The current selection was last updated on 13 July 2020Terra Fantasia Association of Bulgarian SF &amp; F Writers and Artists / 7Human Library Foundation / 12stika Almanac: origins and visions / 14Introductory notes / 16Alternative reading orders / 18Science Fiction / 22Artist: Dimitar Yankov / 22Love in the Time of Con Crud by Elena Pavlova / 33How I Saved the World Or The Best Job by Valentin D. Ivanov / 40Beating the Air by Velko Miloev / 48Artist: Vasil Ivanov / 54The Celestial Way by Drake Vato (excerpts) / 64Deflation by Valentin D. Ivanov / 89Virgil and the Water by Svetoslav Nikolov / 93Mindster by Valentin D. Ivanov / 113Artist: Atanas P. Slavov / 123The Empty Room by Aleksandar Karapanchev / 149The Most Terrible Beast by Khristo Poshtakov / 156Artist: Kalin Nikolov (Illustrations) / 161Father by Ivaylo G. Ivanov / 177Artist: Stefan Lefterov / 185Fantasy &amp; Magic Realism / 197To Wake a Dragon Girl by Nikolay Tellalov (excerpt) / 199Artist: Kate Danailova / 216The Assassination by Johan Vladimir / 222Artist: Plamen Semkov / 253I Sinner Ivan by Nikolay Svetlev (excerpt) / 262Three Tales of a Very Windy Town by Lyubomir P. Nikolov / 268The Coin by Lights amidst Shadows (excerpt) / 273Artist: Peter Stanimirov / 295Words Unspoken Beasts Unnamed by Krasimira Stoeva / 307Mina the Spells and the White Vial by Vesela Flamburari (excerpt) / 327Orpheus Descends into Hell by Georgi Malinov (excerpt) / 333Artist: Dimo Milanov / 346The Dragon and the Orange Juice by Genoveva Detelinova / 356Avant-garde Speculative Fiction / 373Impossibly Blue by Zdravka Evtimova / 374Asked the Soldier Who Called Me? by Yancho Cholakov / 378A Small Step by Mari Paskalev / 391Journey to Akkad by Val Todorov / 397Artist: Kalin Nikolov (Graphic Arts) / 415Dragonflies and Planets by Aleksandar Karapanchev / 421That Thing Gone with the Birds by Val Todorov / 423The Film-thin Bound by Kalin M. Nenov / 432Chirpy Firewood by Maria Velcheva (excerpts) / 434Wrong by Zdravka Evtimova / 459In the Beginning Was the Subway by Lyubomir P. Nikolov / 465Artist: Georgi Markov / 479Fandom / 485Ivan Yefremov SF &amp; Futurology Club / 485Chronicles of Ivan Yefremov SF Club / 486Artist: Emil Valev / 498Futurum / 502The Keresztury TVirs by Ivan Popov / 503Acknowledgments / 510You can ask for a preview version of the almanac from the link in the URL field below.
language: English
title: ФантАstika: Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction
publisher: None