View from Another Shore: European Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 13)

Hardcover, revised edition, xvi + 256 pages, NOT ex-library. A diagonal crease on the rear blank endpaper and the last page. Else fine. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Very good, bright dust jacket. -- Contents: Introduction; In Hot Pursuit of Happiness / Stanislaw Lem; The Valley of Echoes / Gérard Klein; Observation of Quadragnes / J.-P. Andrevon; Good Ring / Svend Age Madsen; Slum / Herbert W. Franke; The Land of Osiris / Wolfgang Jeschke; Captain Nemo's Last Adventure / Josef Nesvadba; Altar of the Random Gods / Adrian Rogoz; Good Night, Sophie / Lino Aldani; The Proving Ground / Sever Gansovsky; Sisyphus, the Son of Aeolus / Vsevolod Ivanoz; A Modest Genius / Vadim Shefner. -- This is a second edition, with a completely new contextual introduction and other new material, of a superb selection (first published in 1973 and for long out of print) of some of the best science fiction from continental Europe. These stories, varied in subject and treatment and ranging in tone from the gentle humour of Vadim Shefner's A Modest Genius to the sharp satire of Lem's In Hot Pursuit of Happiness, provide an important contribution to the body of foreign SF in Translation. …