Polish author Jacek Dukaj speaks with Bloomsbury Publishing about “Ice: a Trans-Siberian odyssey through political, criminal, scientific, philosophical and amorous intrigues, and into an endless winter to confront something utterly alien.” Check it out here.
“Threehearts and Me” by Clelia Farris, translated from the Italian by Rachel Cordasco (Bourbon Penn, November 1) “Trees at Night” by Ramiro Sanchiz, translated from the Spanish by Sue Burke (Clarkesworld, November 1) Ice by Jacek Dukaj, translated from the Polish by Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus, November 6) A Trans-Siberian odyssey through political, criminal,
JACEK DUKAJ The Old Axolotl: Hardware Dreams, translated by Stanley Bill (Allegro, 2015). “The Old Axolotl is an exhilarating post-apocalyptic tale about a world in which a cosmic catastrophe has sterilized the Earth of all living things. Only a small number of humans have managed to copy digitalized versions of their minds onto hardware in
OVERVIEW Polish SFT is a wonderful mix of science fiction and surrealism, fantasy and horror, cyberpunk and fairy tale. Since the 1960s, when Stanisław Lem, Witold Gombrowicz, and Stefan Grabiński were first translated and introduced to Anglophone audiences; to the present day, when Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher universe is available in English across various media; Polish
Lots of news came out this week regarding central and eastern European speculative fiction in English translation… keep ’em comin’ ! The publisher Head of Zeus has acquired World English rights to Polish author Jacek Dukaj’s thousand-page-long novel Ice. The book “conjur[es] an alternate 20th Century, where Russia and half of Europe are
translated from the Polish by Stanley Bill Allegro March 16, 2015 160 pages This isn’t your grandfather’s reading experience, and that’s the point. Jacek Dukaj, Poland’s most famous living sci-fi writer, has created a multi-dimensional text that explores what it means to be a human versus a machine with a human consciousness. The Old Axolotl
http://scifiportal.eu/a-dialogue-with-the-polish-writer-jacek-dukaj-by-cristian-tamas/
