Zoran Zivkovic

First Contact and Time Travel

Selected Essays and Short Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume collects both essays and fictional material around two core topics in the long career of the Serbian writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator. The first topic - first contact - is chiefly represented by his comprehensive essay on "The Theme of First Contact in the SF Works of Arthur C. Clarke" and reflected on the literary level with his short stories "The Bookshop" and "The Puzzle". Two shorter essays on the second topic - time travel in SF literature - introduce, amongst others, the well-known and fascinating mosaic novel Time Gifts, which skillfully explores the more literary side of the notions of past, present and future. In the annotations the author provides insights into his take on the subjects presented.

Produktdetails

• Science and Fiction
• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-90550-1
• 1st ed. 2018
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9783319905501
• ISBN-10: 3319905503
• Artikelnr.: 51965409

Autorenporträt

Zoran ivkovi¿ graduated in literary theory from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Belgrade in 1973. Until his recent retirement he was a professor at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade where he taught Creative Writing. ivkovi¿ has won several literary awards for his fiction: in 1994 his novel The Fourth Circle won the Milo Crnjanski award; in 2003, his mosaic novel The Library won a World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, and in 2007 he won the Isidora Sekuli¿ award for his novel The Bridge. In the same year he received the "Stefan Mitrov Ljubia" award for his lifetime achievement in literature. In 2014 and 2015 ivkovi¿ received three awards for his contribution to the literature of fantastika: Art-Anima, Stanislav Lem and The Golden Dragon.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Part 1: Essays.- The Theme of First Contact in the SF Works of Arthur C Clarke.- Chronomotion.- The Labyrinth Motif in SF.- Part II: Fiction.- The Bookshop.- The Puzzle.- Time Gifts.- The Cone.- Epilogue.

Rezensionen

"Zivkoviæ's fiction is rich in unexpected turns and twists, effects before the cause, and wondrous occurrences. ... This is a fascinating mix, full of the flavor of the past, ranging from the banal to the profound, and best read in small doses." (Franz Rottensteiner, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 46, 2019)

"It is a volume of two halves, combining as it does both fact and fiction largely built around the core ideas of 'first contact' and 'time travel'. ... the book proved to have the most interest, with ... highly original and beautifully crafted short stories based around the two core themes of the book." (John Silvester, Odyssey The e-Magazine of the British Interplanetary Society, Issue 59, 2019)