Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction – Franz Rottensteiner
• In Hot Pursuit of Happiness – Stanislaw Lem
• The Valley of Echoes – Gérard Klein
• Observation of Quadragnes - J. P. Andrevon
• The Good Ring – Sven Age Madsen
• Slum – Herbert W. Franke
• The Land of Osiris – Wolfgang Jeschke
• Captain Nemo’s Last Adventure – Josef Nesvadba
• The Altar of the Random Gods – Adrian Rogoz
• Good Night, Sophie – Lino Aldani
• The Proving Ground – Sever Gansovsky
• Sisyphus, the Son of Aeolus – Vsevolod Ivanov
• A Modest Genius – Vadim Shefner
• Notes on the Authors

About the Author

Franz Rottensteiner has been the editor of Quarber Merkur, the leading German language critical journal of science fiction, since 1963. In 2004, on the occasion of the hundredth number of this journal, he was awarded a special Kurd-La�witz-Preis.

Reviews

This is an excellent collection and recommended to any Science Fiction fan.Geoff Willmetts, SFCrowsnest