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Hungarian SFT: Austin Wagner on Three Hungarian SFF Authors

Hungarian Speculative Fiction: The Three Pillars by Austin Wagner When it comes to writing about Hungarian speculative fiction for an English-speaking audience, an enormous problem rears its ugly head before the first sentence can even be typed out – namely that very little speculative fiction written in the last fifty years has been translated from

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Hungarian SFT: Novels (Part II)

The Sinistra Zone (1992) by Ádám Bodor, translated by Paul Olchváry (New Directions, 2013) “Entering a weird, remote hamlet, Andrei calls himself “a simple wayfarer,” but he is in fact highly compromised: he has no identity papers. Taken under the wing of the military zone’s commander, Andrei is first assigned to guard the blueberries that

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