June 1, 2019
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May 28, 2019
In January 2018, I set myself a goal of reading six translated SFF works. Amatka is my third book. (I know, it’s 2019!) Prior to this, I attempted Eden, by Stanislaw Lem, which I’m sorry to say was a slog, and one of Lem’s admittedly more difficult works; and I Remember You, by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, a properly chilling ghost story…
January 30, 2019
In January of last year, I set myself a goal of reading six translated SFF works. This was my second book. (I know, it’s 2019!) [Editor’s note: to be fair, Ronya read and reviewed this in December, and it just so happened that we had space to fill in January.] I Remember You Written by: Yrsa Sigurdardottir (tr. Philip Roughton)…
December 21, 2018
In January this year, I set myself a goal of reading six translated SF/F works. The first book on my list was Stanislaw Lem’s Eden. Eden (1959; reissue, 1989) Written By: Stanislaw Lem Pages: 276 pages (hardback) Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Why I Chose It: I had read Lem’s most famous work, Solaris (published two years after Eden), and I’m a…