Fantastic Metropolis

Untranslated Books

Readers who read in English only have another Shadow Cabinet to consider: foreign-language books not yet translated into English. What follows is a partial list of titles that merit translation into English.

Serbian Authors

(Provided by Zoran Zivkovic.)

• Aleksandar Gatalica, Vek (The Century)
• Goran Petrovic, Opsada Crkve Svetog Spasa (The Siege of the St. Salvation Church)
• Goran Petrovic, Sitnicarnica kod srecne ruke (The Lucky Hand Trifle Shop)
• Veselin Markovic, Izranjanje (The Emerging)
• Goran Skrobonja, Od sapata do vriska (From a Whisper to a Scream)

Portuguese and Brazilian Authors

(Provided by Luís Rodrigues.)

• João Barreiros and Luís Filipe Silva, Terrarium: Um Romance em Mosaicos (Terrarium: A Novel in Mosaics)
• João Barreiros, O Caçador de Brinquedos e Outras Histórias (The Toy Hunter and Other Stories)
• José Gomes Ferreira, Aventuras de João Sem Medo (Adventures of Fearless John)
• Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro, O Vampiro de Nova Holanda (The Vampire of New Holland)
• Luís Filipe Silva,
  • GalxMente: A Cidade da Carne (GalxMind: The City of Flesh)
  • GalxMente: Vinganças (GalxMind: Vengeances)
• Daniel Tércio, A Pedra de Lúcifer (Lucifer’s Stone)

Hungarian Authors

(Provided by Péter Michaleczky.)

• Péter Zsoldos,
  • A feladat (The Challenge)
  • Távoli tuz (Distant Fire)
• András Gáspár, Kiálts farkast! (Cry Wolf!)
• Tibor Fonyódi a.k.a. Harrison Fawcett, A Katedrális legendája I-II (The Legend of the Cathedral)
• László L. Lorincz, Örök visszatérés (Forever Return)
• Sándor Szélesi, Az Excalibur keresése I-II (Search for Excalibur)
• Fabián László and György Kulin, Astra

See also: “A Brief History of Hungarian SF”.

Korean Authors

(Provided by Minsoo Kang.)

• Junghyo Ahn, Siljong (Missing): a man inexplicably loses his place in society—no one remembers who he is. As he goes on a search for his identity, he becomes privy to just about every conspiracy theory in recent Korean history, from the unsolved murders of important political figures to rumors of secret government projects.

• Guil Bok, Bimyung Eul Chajasu (In Search of an Epitaph): alternate history novel in which the Japanese sided with the Allies during World War II, resulting in Korea remaining a Japanese colony. The story takes place in the 1980’s when the Japanese managed to wipe out the Korean identity, and a young Korean intellectual(who thinks of himself as a provincial Japanese) runs across come old documents that mentions the province of Korea as having once been an independent kingdom.

• Guil Bok, Paran Dal Are (Under a Blue Moon): in the near future every wealthy country has a base on the moon. Since the North and South Koreas are in the process of unification, the rich South builds North a moon base for free. The scientists on each base then become embroiled in efforts by other internationals to declare independence for the moon. Not his best novel but a brilliant meditation on the North-South situation.

• Inhoon Choi, Gou Oun Mong (Cloud Nine Dream): a modern version of the old Korean novel of the same title. A surreal journey through some of the catastrophical events in recent Korean history, as a lost man meets a series of women from every level of society who mysteriously appear before him and tell him their stories.

• Ilji Ha, Se (The Bird): a man is tormented by a mysterious bird that follows him everywhere. After a long struggle with it, he gives up and turns into a bird himself.

• Ilji Ha, Gyungmajang Esu Senggin Il (The Event that Occurred at the Race Tracks): the most surrealist in Ha’s five-novel ‘Racetrack’ series. A Kafkaesque nightmare of a teacher who is invited to go to a ‘Teacher’s Retreat and Resort’ on an island. He arrives to find the place shabby and run like a totalitarian state from which there is no possible escape.

• Jang Jungil, Boathouse: a writer who was recently jailed for a bogus crime of writing an indecent novel (as it really happened to Jang) is trying to write again, but feels emotionally crippled by recent events in his life. A mysterious woman helps him by turning herself into an old-fashioned typewriter. He is able to write again, but the magical woman-typewriter involves him in a series of misadventures with gangsters.