The Road To Science Fiction - Volume 6: Around The World

Volume 6: Around The World

(White Wolf, July 1998)

Contents:

FRANCE

  • excerpt from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
  • "The War of the Twentieth Century" by Albert Robida
  • "Another World" J.-H. Rosny-Aîné
  • "The Dead Fish" by Boris Vian
  • "Heavier Than Sleep" by Philippe Curval
  • "The Valley of Echoes" by Gérard Klein
  • "The Knot" by Élisabeth Vonarburg

GERMANY

  • "The Sandman" by E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • "The Universal Library" by Kurd Lasswitz
  • "The Hunter Gracchus" by Franz Kafka
  • "The Building" by Herbert W. Franke
  • "Loitering at Death's Door" by Wolfgang Jeschke
  • "Ikaros" by Erik Simon

SCANDINAVIA AND FINLAND

  • "Mnemosyne's Children" by Svend Åge Madsen
  • "Time Everlasting" by Sam J. Lundwall

EASTERN EUROPE

  • Epilogue from R.U.R. by Karel Čapek
  • "The Hunt" by Stanisław Lem
  • "The Divided Carla" by Josef Nesvadba
  • "That Invincible Human Spirit, or, The Golden Ships" by Alexandr Kramer
  • "The Neuhof Treaty" by Ovid S. Crohmalniceanu

RUSSIA

  • "The Strangers" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
  • "Share It With Me" by Kirill Bulychev

ITALY

  • "The Time Machine" by Dino Buzzati
  • "Cancerqueen" by Tommaso Landolfi
  • "The Spiral" by Italo Calvino

SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA

  • "The Alabaster Garden" by Teresa Inglés
  • "The Babylon Lottery" by Jorge Luis Borges
  • "Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles" by Gabriel García Márquez
  • "Chac-Mool" by Carlos Fuentes

INDIA

  • "Einstein the Second" by Laxman Londhe

CHINA

  • "The Mirror Image of the Earth" by Zheng Wenguang
  • "Corrosion" by Ye Yonglie

JAPAN

  • "Beyond the Curve" by Kōbō Abe
  • "Take Your Choice" by Sakyo Komatsu
  • "The Legend of the Paper Spaceship" by Tetsu Yano

Read more about this topic:  The Road To Science Fiction

Famous quotes containing the words the world, volume and/or world:

    “I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it’s hard to think of doing something else where you know you’ll never be the best. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you’re the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it’s not all there is to life and I’m ready to explore the alternatives.”
    —Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)

    “And all the great traditions of the Past
    They saw reflected in the coming time.

    And thus forever with reverted look
    The mystic volume of the world they read,
    Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
    Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune seventy times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)