First Contact and Time Travel
Selected Essays and Short Stories
Authors: Zivkovic, Zoran
Free Preview- First volume collecting part of this authors' non-fiction writings on SF
- Emphasizes the connection between hard and literary SF on the chosen topics
- Authored by an internationally known writer, researcher and essayist
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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.
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Zoran Živković 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. Živković has won several literary awards for his fiction: in 1994 his novel The Fourth Circle won the Miloš Crnjanski award; in 2003, his mosaic novel The Library won a World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, and in 2007 he won the Isidora Sekulić award for his novel The Bridge. In the same year he received the "Stefan Mitrov Ljubiša" award for his lifetime achievement in literature. In 2014 and 2015 Živković received three awards for his contribution to the literature of fantastika: Art-Anima, Stanislav Lem and The Golden Dragon.
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“Živkoviæ’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)
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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The Theme of First Contact in the SF Works of Arthur C. Clarke
Pages 3-36
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Utopia in Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End
Pages 37-44
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Chronomotion
Pages 45-49
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The Labyrinth Theme in Science Fiction
Pages 51-54
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Annotations 1
Pages 55-58
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- First Contact and Time Travel
- Book Subtitle
- Selected Essays and Short Stories
- Authors
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- Zoran Zivkovic
- Series Title
- Science and Fiction
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-90551-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-90551-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-90550-1
- Series ISSN
- 2197-1188
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 150
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations
- Topics
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