Closing for a Short Break…
Transreal Fiction will be closed for a few days from Sunday until Thursday 26th September 2019
New Titles – w/e 21st September 2019
in hardcover:
Joe Abercrombie – A Little Hatred volume 1 of his new Age of Madness series
Stephen Baxter – Destroyer volume 1 of his new series World Engines. A frozen space shuttle pilot is re-awakened hundreds of years in the future but finds that their history doesn’t seem to match his memories…
Kassandra Montag – After the Flood in the far future, America is reduced to small communities on a scattering of islands. Myra & her daughter discover that her elder daughter may still be alive elsewhere and set out to find her…
Davidf Koepp – Cold Storage US bio-terror agent Roberto Diaz thought he had safely contained a fast-mutatung bio-weapon years earlier, but now it might be loose again!
in ‘B’ format:
Brandon Sanderson – Skyward the alien attacks are so fierce that Spensa may finally get her wish to be a pilot in the fight against them. Part 1 of Claim the Stars
L. L. McKinney – A Dream So Dark sequel to A Blade So Black Alice must cross The Veil into Wonderland again and battle the Black Knight in order to rescue her friends
Elizabeth Bear – Cleave 3rd part of her Jacob’s Ladder trilogy, set on a giant, damaged interstellat starship
Tom Toner – The Tropic of Eternity the 3rd of the Amaranthine Spectrum, which began with The Promise of the Child
Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald – Shatter War the 2nd book of the Time Shards series
Jonathan Whitelaw – The Man in the Dark in Hell, famous backstabbers Cassius & Brutus are eyeing up another victim, this time not Caesar but the Devil himself
Harry Harrison – The Stainless Steel Rat latest re-issue in Gollancz‘s Golden Age Masterworks series
Xavier Aldana Reyes (editor) – Promethean Horrors anthology from the Brtitish Library‘s Tales of the Weird series, subtitled Classic Tales of Mad Science
Dan Abnett – Double Eagle adventure set in the Sabat Worlds of the Warhammer 40,000 universe
paperbacks:
Syd Moore – The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas short story collection
art:
Kan Muftic – Figure Drawing for Concept Artists new to me, but originally published in 2017 by 3dtotal Publishing
magazines:
Interzone – issue # 283 includes an editorial and fiction by John Kessel
Black Static – issue # 71 filled with new fiction, art, commentary, book & film reviews…
Locus – issue # 704 cover date September 2019 featuring Silvia Moreno-Garcia on the cover talking about her novel Gods of Jade and Shadow, which I’ve just finished and is excellent! Also full Hugo Awards winners and the World Fantasy Awards ballot details
New Titles – w/e 14th September 2019
in hardcover:
Jay Kristoff – Darkdawn 3rd book of his fantasy series The Nevernight Chronicle
Alix E. Harrow – The Ten Thousand Doors of January the young ward of Mr. Locke lives with him in a huge, many-roomed mansion with mysterious doors, and then she finds a book that helps explain them all…
Brian Catling – Earwig a man starts spying on the strange girl he’s employed to look after and, after an odd encounter at a local bar, a black cat is delivered to the flat, which the girl immediately bonds with…
Jaime Lee Moyer – Brightfall Robin Hood has retreated to live in a monastery but his once Merry Men are dying mysteriously and Marion needs his help…
Margaret Atwood – The Testaments keenly awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
Barbara Hambly – Lady of Perdition the 9th Benjamin January case
in large format:
Sarah Pinsker – A Song for a New Day in the near future large public gatherings and concerts have been banned for security reasons but the music hasn’t disappeared, it’s just gone underground…
Jenna Glass – The Women’s War in a magical world, the patriarchy is under serious attack!
E. Catherine Tobler – The Kraken Sea in New York in 1893 a young boy in an orphanage just wants to be normal, but he has tentacles under his shirt and sometimes grows scales…
Ellen Datlow (editor) – The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven the annual anthology
in ‘B’ format:
Dave Hutchinson – The Rerturn of the Incredible Exploding Man Alex is hired to write about an experimental supercollider but then there’s an on-site incident…
Kim Stanley Robinson – Red Moon by mid-century, the main colonists on the moon are the still officially communist Chinese…
Alastair Reynolds – Shadow Captain book 2 of his Revenger series
Chris McCrudden – Battle Beyond the Dolestars space opera farce! Looks great fun!
Adrian J. Walker – The End of the World Survivors Club sequel to The End of the World Running Club
Brandon Sanderson – Oathbringer: Part One the first half of the 3rd volume of The Stormlight Archive
Brandon Sanderson – Oathbringer: Part Two the second half of the 3rd volume of The Stormlight Archive
Seth Dickinson – The Monster volume 2 of The Masquerade and sequel to The Traitor (aka The Traitor Baru Cormorant)
Jenn Lyons – The Ruin of Kings a bard’s apprentice in trouble finds himself acclaimed by some to be the missing son of a Royal heir… Big new epic fantasy
Tom Holt – An Orc on the Wild Side his latest madcap fantasy!
Tyler Hayes – The Imaginary Corpse Tippy, an abondoned dinosaur toy, pulls himself together to try to solve a case in Playtime Town
Gail Carriger – Reticence the 4th of her Custard Protocol books
Wendy Trimboli & Alicia Zaloga – The Resurrectionist of Caligo a bodysnatcher is framed for murder and must rely on a sympathetic Princess and some Royal Blood Magic to avoid hanging
Rachel Harrison – Honourbound Warhammer 40,000 adventure featuring Commisar Severina Raine
Mike Ashley (editor) – Menace of the Monster anthology subtitled Classic Tales of Creatures From Beyond The latest collection from The British Library in their Science Fiction Classics series
in paperback:
James Rollins – Crucible his latest Sigma Force thriller
art, etc:
Gary Gianni – The Art of GG: George R. R. Martin‘s Seven Kingdoms hardcover with over 300 drawings and paintings inspired by events on the continent of Westeros
Frank Cho – Ballpoint Beauties softcover, mainly b&w line art
Tim Pond – The Field Guide to Drawing and Sketching Animals tips for drawing all sorts of wild animals; fish, butterflies,, arthropods, many of the big mammals, and more…Previously published but new to me
John Walsh – Harryhausen: The Lost Movies fully illustrated hardcover featuring projects and scenes which never made it to the big screen… extra dinos from One Million Years B.C., Sinbad Goes to Mars, Food of the Gods (novel by H. G. Wells) and many more!
Laurent Queyssi & Mruro Marchesi – Philip K. Dick: A Comics Biography hardcover graphic novel about the influential author
Jim Henson – Coronation Volume Three of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth series of h/c graphic novels
Philippe Coudray – Bigby Bear: For All Seasons featuring the ingenious and artistic Bigby Bear. Hardcover, full colour one-page strips of his various schemes and adventures with his friends. Very cute!
Andy Kirsch – Cats: Nature & Nurture the latest informative book from Science Comics
magazines:
Heavy Metal – Soft Wood (One Shot) a comedy special issue (cover A only) Bagged for adult content
gift:
J. R. R. Tolkien – The Tolkien Treasury neat little boxfile with 4 small hardcovers in it: Smith of Wooton Major, Roverandom, Farmer Giles of Ham & The Adventures of Tom Bombadil First time I’ve stocked it; it looks really nice!
calendars:
Alan Lee – Tolkien Calander 2020 with the Lonely Mountain on the cover…
New Titles – w/e 7th September 2019
in hardcover:
Seanan McGuire – The Unkindest Tide the 13th October Daye novel
Bob Proehl – The Nobody People Emmeline is one of a number of young mutants who just want to live quietly, but the government won’t let them… Loved his previous A Hundred Thousand Worlds
Eric Flint & Iver P. Cooper – 1636: The China Venture the latest 1632/Ring of Fire adventure
Randall Munroe – How To latest volume of absurd science advice from the creator of the XKCD strip & author of The Thing Explainer
in large format:
Edward Cox – The Song of the Sycamore controlled by an ancient spirit, Wendal returns from the wastelands and finds himself caught up in the struggle between the Magicians & the Engineers in the city of Old Castle…
Scott Russell Sanders – The Engineer of Beasts in the domed cities of the future, the only animals allowed are in zoos – and tey’re all mechanical versions of the animals…
J. S. Fields – Ardulum: Frst Don Neek, the captain of a tramp space freighter, rescues a slave girl who may turn out to be a member of an almost mythical elder race of aliens…
Les Johnson & Robert E. Hampson (editors) – Stellaris: People of the Stars short stories & articles inspired by the 2016 Tennesee Valley Interstellar Workshop (TVIT) Symposium centred around humanity’s future in space. Authors include Sarah Hoyt and Kevin J. Anderson
Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe (editors) – The Mythic Dream 18 re-imaginings of classic myths, by authors such as Naomi Novik, Jeffrey Ford & J. Y. Yang
in ‘B’ format:
Nina Allen – The Silver Wind 3 time travellers whose paths criss-cross through various times and alternate realities!
Becky Chambers – To Be Taught if Fortunate bio-enhanced humans surveying distant star systems worry about their eventual return to Earth, and how it, and they, may have changed…
Juliet Marillier – The Harp of Kings the 1st volume of her new Warrior Bards series
Marina & Sergaey Dyachenko – Vita Nostra Russian teen Sasha is persuaded to attend the Institute of Special Technologies to master her abilities… I enjoyed the hardcover
Deborah Hewitt – The Nightjar Alice is forced to run from shadowy forces who want her to help them find other magically gifted people…
Victoria Schwab – Tunnel of Bones sequel to YA novel City of Ghosts, this time set in and under Paris instead of Edinburgh
art, etc:
Desirina Boskovitch – Lost Transmissions fascinating hardcover exploring odd corners of genre history, subtitled The Secret Historiy of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Harry Potter Film Vault – Volume 1: Forest, Lake, and Sky Creatures hardcover detailing various creatures, from J. K. Rowling‘s books. Mainly concept drawings with some text
New Titles – w/e 31st August 2019
in hardcover:
Chuck Wendig – Wanderers as civilisation collapses, a young female sleepwalker is joined by myriad others as she treks across America to an unknown destination… It looks very big!
John Birmingham – The Cruel Stars part one of his new Cruel Stars trilogy. After their defeat centuries earlier, the aliens have returned to contest human occupied space again…
Guillermo del Toro & Cornelia Funke – The Labyrinth of the Faun a new Pan’s Labyrinth novel! With b&w interior llustrations by Allen Williams
in large format:
Mathhew W. Frend – The Free World War in peaceful 2265, a popular VR simulation is of a world where WW2 goes very differently and the Soviets control the post-war world…
Damien Westly – Thirst for Revenge unfairly disgraced & stripped of his Captaincy and Pilot’s Licence, revenge must be sought!
Alexandra Rowland – A Conspiracy of Truths a storyteller, convicted as a witch and spy, finds himself a pawn in the political scheming of his captors…
Ellen Datlow (editor) – Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories giant volume with 30 new stories from the likes of Kadrey, McGuire, Littlewood & Mamatas
in ‘B’ format:
G. Rai – Konglomerate following the civilisation-destroying Great Flash, two survivors, an orphan and an ex-prisoner, fight against mutants and strange humanoids…
James Lovegrove – Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils. The 3rd of his Cthulhu Casebooks
Daisy Butcher (editor) – Evil Roots subtitled Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic the latest in the British Library‘s Tales of the Weird anthology series. 14 stories, including works by Ambrose Bierce, Abraham Merritt & H. G. Wells
in paperback:
Seanan McGuire – Night and Silence the 12th October Daye novel
art, etc:
Kate Lacour – Vivisectionary strange art depicting human and animal bodies (some mythological) in various stages of disection. Hardcover
Baron Yoshimoto – The Art of BY full colour h/c of exotic Japanese fantasy
Emmanuel Lepage – Springtime in Chernobyl hardcover graphic novel from IDW covering events from the reactor meltdown to the present day
Jonathan Fetter-Vorn – Moonbound subtitled Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight graphic novel all about our growing knowledge of the Moon with chapters about the Apollo 11 mission alternating with older historical sections
Mark Vedrines – Islandia part 1: Boreal Landing graphic novel about a French orphan who stows away to Iceland, set in the 17th C.
Sergio Toppi – Collected Toppi Volume Two: North America more amazing pencil work. Volume One back in stock. Some full colour pages but mainly b&w. Hardcover
Hugo Pratt – Corto Maltese: The Early Years the final volume, I think, in which a young CM meets both Jack London & Rasputin in the Far East!
Juan Gimenez – The Fourth Power re-issue of the classic bande desinee space opera, in hardcover from Humanoids!
Studio Ghibli – 100 Collectible Postcards neat box of full colour cards with art from all the major films made by the studio! Very nice.
New Titles – w/e 24th August 2019
in large format:
Miles Cameron – Bright Steel the 3rd book of his Masters & Mages series
Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple – The Last Tsar’s Dragons pre-Revolutionary Russia, with dragons!
Evan Currie – Archangel One during an uneasy peace, Archangel Squadron mount a secret mission deep into the heart of the Enemy’s space and have to conceal their identiy at all costs – even apparently fighting for the Enemy…
Tanith Lee – Love in a Time of Dragons & Other Tales 15 short stories, published by Immanion Press
David Stokes (editor) – Tales of the Sunrise Lands 18 short stories by Western writers, inspired by Japanese culture
in ‘B’ format:
Ari Marmell – The Conqueror’s Shadow Corvis Rebaine had failed in his dream to rule and now an upstart warlord was attempting the same thing…
Ari Marmell – The Warlord’s Legacy Rebaine is again living quietly, but someone has started impersonating him!
Hailey Edwards – Rise Against the 4th in The Foundling series, which began with Bayou Born
Cyriak Harris – Horse Destroys the Universe Betty & Tim are scientists conducting neurological experimentas on Buttercup, but discover the horse has it’s own ideas about who’s experimenting on whom!
S. J. Morden – No Way sequel to One Way. Frank is now the only person left alive on Mars…
Ian Thornton – The Deaths and Afterlife of Alastair Crowley what if The Great Beast hadn’t died, but was an ex-master spy now living in exile in Shangri-La!
Octavia Butler – Parable of the Talents re-print; Parable of the Sower arrived last week
Suzette Haden Elgin – Native Tongue her 1984 dystopia, now re-released as an Orion SF Masterwork
Naosh Koriyama & Bruce Allen (translators) – Japanese Tales From Times Past collection of fantasy and folklore from the Konjaku Monogatari Shu. New to me but originally publishd in 2015
Rachel Pollack – The Beatrix Gates plus… the 22nd volume in PS Publishing‘s Outspoken Authors series. A novella, three short tories, an essay, an interview by Terry Bisson and a bibliography
Paul Park – City Made of Words plus… the latest in PS Publishing‘s Outspoken Authors series. Several short stories, a couple of essays by him, an interview and a bibliography
Currently also have the Michael Blumlein, Sam Delany, Joe Lansdale, Ursula LeGuin & Madge Piercy volumes in stock as well…
in paperback:
Michael Mammay – Spaceside sequel to Planetside. A little enexpected, given how the 1st one ended!
art, etc:
Frederic Bremaud & Federico Bertolucci – Love: The Dinosaur wordless graphic novel anout a day in the life of a T. Rex; back in stock
New Titles – w/e 17th August 2019
in hardcover:
Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Gods of Jade and Shadow in the 1920s, having inadvertantly freed an ancient Mayan death-god, Casiopea embarks on a trek deep into the Mexican jungles with it to try to achieve her dreams…
in large format:
Rudyard Kipling – With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. featuring the Aerial Board of Control for world-wide air traffic, which is becoming a de-facto World Government as it controls trade… Originally from 1905, although this version is the 1909 text.
in ‘B’ format:
Andrew Skinner – Steel Frame Root’s own mecha fighting robot has been destroyed and she’s assigned another one, almost ready for the junk yard, but there’s a mission to carry out on the edge of Human space…
Marie Brennan – Turning Darkness Into Light the 6th of her Natural History of Dragons series, which began with A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent
Octavia E. Butler – Parable of the Sower re-issue, along with companion volume Parable of the Talents (which should have come in as well, but a box has gone missing… )
JG Faherty – Hellrider the psychotic ghost of a murdered biker… From Flame Tree Press
Jonathan Janz – The Darkest Lullaby Chris and his wife inherit an old house with an evil reputation… published by Flame Tree Press
Yvonne Howell (editor) – Red Star Tales anthology of 18 stories from ‘A Century of Rusian & Soviet Science Fiction‘. Stories appear to date from 1892 to 1992
in paperback:
Karen Chance – Brave the Tempest the 9th Cassie Palmer adventure
art, etc:
John Aroudi (editor) – From Hell’s Heart full colour hardcover with dozens of current artists each illustrating a quote from across Herman Melville‘s oeuvre; Moby Dick, Bartleby, Typee, White Jacket, and others…
Cathy & Arnie Fenner (editors) – Spectrum 11 in softcover and hardback
Cathy & Arnie Fenner (editors) – Spectrum 19 in hardback. Both editions available again for a short time. I should have had other back volumes (5, 9 & 20) but my order was cancelled… Spectrum 26 (this year’s volume) is due in mid/late November
3DTotal Publishing – Creating Characters for the Entertainment Industry 300 pages of detailed info, from initial concept presentation to the final product. Full colour softcover
J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets illustrated edition of Volume Two with art by Jim Kay. Now out in softcover
magazines:
Heavy Metal – issue # 294 Industrial Special edition. 2 different covers
Hi-Fructose – volume 52 with 16 page Jim Woodring b&w insert!
Illustration – Number Sixty Five featuring large articles on Aiden Lassell Ripley, Ollie Harrington & Coles Phillips
Locus – issue # 703 with William Gibson
New Titles – w/e 10th August 2019
in hardcover:
Lois McMaster Bujold – The Flowers of Vashon the latest novella from Subterranean Prss, featuring Lady Vorkosigan
in large format:
Mike Shackle – We Are the Dead Tinnstra deserted the army as the Egril defeated her people decisively using dreadful magic. Now she has to prove herself… Book 1 of The Last War
Breanna Teirntze – Lord of Secrets an outlawed wizard saves a runaway slave but they both end up in prison…
Lord Dunsany –Tales of Three Hemispheres 14 of his best short stories, with small b&w illustrations by Tim Kirk (taken from the earlier Owlswick edition) Also includes Idle Days on the Yann
Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng (editors) – The Sea is Ours anthology of a dozen Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia
Karen Lord (editor) – New Worlds, Old Ways anthology of 11 stories subtitled Speculative Tales From the Carribean
in ‘B’ format:
Adam Roberts – By the Pricking of Her Thumbs P.I. Alma, from The Real Town Murders, is investigating a murder, although she’s not sure whose, when an obsessive Stanley Kubrick fan kidnaps her…
Stephen Aryan – Magebane volume 3 of his Age of Dread trilogy. which began with Mageborn & Magefall
Micah Yongo – Pale Kings sequel to Lost Gods, set in the Five Lands
Stanislaw Lem – Tales of Pirx the Pilot collection of 5 stories, which form the tale of a space pilot’s career. First issued in English in 1979. Translation by Louis Iribarne
Ian MacPherson – Wild Harbour a couple flee to the remote Highlands to escape the encroaching war… Novel from 1936, re-issued by The British Library
in paperback:
Edward Willett – Worldshaper 1st volume of the Worldshapers series. Shawna is a potter, reluctantly drawn into a weird mission to use her skills to help mend the flaws in other, alternate worlds…
magazines:
restock of available issues of both Graphite and CDQ: Character Design Quarterly
New Titles – w/e 3rd August 2019
in hardcover:
D. K. Friends – Widow’s Welcome investigating a curious murder Cora finds herself sucked into the murky politics surrounding the up-coming election. Book 1 of the Tales of Fenest, set in a world where stories have power…
in large format:
Strefan Spjut – Trolls sequel to 2015’s Stallo, set deep in the Norwegian forests a decade later…
Cherie Priest – The Toll two honeymooners drive across an unmapped bridge in the Florida swamps…
Glen Cook – Chronicles of the Black Company omnibus edition of the 1st three novels in the series: The Black Company, Shadows Linger & The White Rose. Back in stock after a long break!
Darran Anderson – Imaginary Cities new edition at last! Non-fiction
in ‘B’ format:
Jy Yang – The Ascent to Godhood the 4th in the Tensorate series
Robert Jackson Bennett – Foundryside in the city of Tavanne escaped slave Sancia is persuaded to try to steal an ancient artifact…
Brian Ruckley – The Free stand alone fantasy novel back in stock. A band of mecenaries take one last job…
in paperback:
Eric Flint – Worlds 2 collection which includes a short Ring of Fire novel (The Austro-Hungarian Connection), a short novel (Fanatic) set in David Weber‘s Honor Harrington universe, some short pieces from The Grantville Gazette and 7 other stories
Michael Z. Williamson – Tide of Battle collection of short tories and essays
Kevin J. Anderson & Sarah J. Hoyt – Uncharted magical, alternate history version of the Lewis & Clark expedition the Arcane Territories
Greg Weisman – Ravnica 1st volume of War of the Spark, the first new Magic: The Gathering novel for many years!
art, etc:
Pie Internatonal – Retrospective Scenes From a Sentimental World matching volume to Beautiful Scenes From a Fantasy World & Everyday Scenes From a Parallel World. All are full colour softcovers with glossy wrap-around dustjackets. Various artists.
William Gibson – Alien 3 graphic novel of his unused script for the 3rd film in the Alien franchise. adapted by Johnnie Christmas & Tamra Bonvillain
Enki Bilal – Monster big new hardcover from Titan Books collecting the whole Monster tetralogy of The Dormant Beast, December 32, Rendez-vous in Paris & Four? in English for the first time.
Phillippe Thirault & Jorge Miguel – Shanghai Dream a pair of aspiring film-makers flee Germany in 1938 and end up in China… Full colour softcover from Humanoids
Ben Katchor – Conversations collection of interviews about his art spanning his career
New Titles – w/e 27th July 2019
in hardcover:
Andrew Caldecott – Lost Acre the 3rd volume of his Rotherweird trilogy, with b&w illustrations by Sasha Laika
Blake Crouch – Recursion people are waking up and finding their memories are all different…
Alexander Dan Vilhjalmsson – Shadows of the Short Days fantasy novel set in Reykjavik
Terry Goodkind – Hateful Things the 2nd novella in The Children of D’Hara series, which is set in the world of The Sword of Truth
Mark Saward – Resurrection of the Daleks the latest Doctor Who novella
in large format:
Aliette de Bodard – The House of Sundering Flames 3rd in the series which began with The House of Shattered Wings
Max Gladstone – Empress of Forever a billionaire entrepreneur finds herself fighting for survival at the end of time
Andy Duncan – An Agent of Utopia collection of ‘a dozen new and selected’ stories
Vandana Singh – Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories collection of 14 short stories
Neil Clarke (editor) – The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four 29 top stories from 2018
in ‘B’ format:
David Wellington – The Last Astronaut the sole astronaut still alive leads a team to investigate a strange, alien object which has taken up station around Earth…
Lee Fonda – Jade War sequel to Jade City, and the 2nd in her Green Bone Saga about controlling the magical jade trade
Muriel Jaeger – The Question Mark 1925 dystopian novel featuring a man displaced 200 years into the future
Emily Tesh – Silver in the Woods a solitary man lives in a cottage deep in the woods with his cat and his dryads…
Hailey Edwards – Bayou Born a young girl is rescued from the swamps but has no memories and apparently no traceable past…
Elizabeth Bear – Sanction sequel to Pinion and previously published as Chill. 2nd in her Jacob’s Ladder trilogy. Set on a giant, damaged generation starship, the original titles were Dust, Chill & Grail but now the books have been re-titled Pinion, Sanction & Cleave
Steven Erikson – The Second Collected Tales of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach includes The Wurms of Blearmouth, Crack’d Pot Trail & The Fiends of Nightmaria
Jodi Taylor– Long Story Short collection of 8 tales set in the world of her Chronicles of St. Mary’s time travel research institute background
Alan Garner – Where Shall We Run To? childhood autobiography
in paperback:
Gareth L. Powell – About Writing advice and ideas
Jorge Luis Borges – The Garden of Forking Paths small edition of 5 of his short stories – only £1.00; I also already stock matching volumes by Italo Calvino & Stanislaw Lem
