Daniel Haeusser reviews short works of SFT that appear both online and in print. He is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Canisius College, where he teaches microbiology and leads student research projects with bacteria and bacteriophage. He’s also an associate blogger with the American Society for Microbiology’s popular Small Things Considered. Daniel reads
translated from the Hungarian by András Szabados Profiford Bt. May 6, 2018 (originally published in Hungarian in 1971) 190 pages (see András Szabados’s essay on Zsoldos (this site) and Bogi Takács’ essay “Geographic accidents: the Gregor Man trilogy by Péter Zsoldos” (via Locus)) Péter Zsoldos (1930-1997) was a Hungarian sf author in the US-UK tradition,
András Szabados is a freelance translator, who is also a fan of classic science fiction and has made it his mission to bring the previously unknown works of Peter Zsoldos to the English-reading audience. You can grab a copy of his translation of The Mission here. The Microcosm of Péter Zsoldos Trying to define classic
Two works of SFT have been included in the Man Booker International Prize 2018 longlist: László Krasznahorkai (Hungary), John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes, The World Goes On (Tuskar Rock Press) Ahmed Saadawi (Iraq), Jonathan Wright, Frankenstein in Baghdad (Oneworld)
