Leviathan Three is the third volume in the World Fantasy Award and British Fantasy Award finalist Ministry of Whimsy’s Leviathan series.

Leviathan Three

Literature & Fiction

JEFF VANDERMEER

Forrest Aguirre

Zoran, Zivkovic

Contemporary

Ministry of Whimsy

Impossible Stories assembles between a single set of covers five of the author's distinguished story-cycles, as well as the stand-alone 'The Telephone': twenty-nine stories in all.In Impossible Stories you will find:Time Gifts: A mysterious visitor comes to see three desperate human beings across the ages: an astronomer, a paleolinguist, and an old watch-maker; he has a unique but ambiguous time-gift for each one of them. His true identity is known only to an insane artist locked up in her asylum studio. But who would believe an artist in this world, even if she were not insane?Impossible Encounters: Six strangely related stories about encounters that could or should never have happened. Including conversations with God and the Devil, with an alien and one's older self; and the answer to the enigma: where do off-duty story characters go?Seven Touches of Music: Seven stories about moments of divine revelation through music, which leave no mark beyond the ephemeral instant of their perception. Among the remarkable epiphanies witnessed are an old widower glimpsing an alternate existence, a librarian dreaming the death of all knowledge, and an artist's rendering of inscrutable alien messages.The Library: A cycle of six thematically linked stories, droll renditions of the nightmares ensuing upon misplaced, or (of course) excessive, bibliophilia. A writer encounters a website where all his possible future books are on display; a lonely man faces an infinite flow of hardback books through his mailbox; a connoisseur of hardcovers strives to expel a lone paperback from his collection...Steps Through the Mist: Five women of various ages face, each in her own way, what seems to be the deterministic trap of Fate. A schoolteacher, a fortune-teller, a young woman on a skiing holiday, an inflexible old spinster, a girl who can collapse reality into any shape: when another dreams you, or controls you, or invests you with godlike power, can there be any escape, ever?

Impossible Stories

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

PS Publishing

Impossible Stories 2 [signed tc]

A series of mysterious deaths in the Papyrus Bookstore brings literature-loving police inspector Dejan Lukić to investigate. Here he meets the attractive owner, Vera Gavrilović, and learns that the only thing the victims have in common is that in the moments before their deaths they were reading an elusive and unidentified volume — The Last Book. As the plot thickens and the seemingly causeless deaths multiply, the National Security Agency, a secret apocalyptic sect and an exotic teashop become involved, while Dejan and Vera’s growing attachment is threatened by nightmares and ever-encroaching danger. Is a literary madman on the loose, murdering readers according to the method laid down in The Name of the Rose? In a final race against time, Inspector Lukić must discover the secret of The Last Book and the reason why he feels as though he has already read everything that is happening to him in a novel. The extraordinary denouement reveals hidden truths about the clash of realities and the awesome power of the creative imagination. The first book of The Papyrus Trilogy.

The Last Book

近年大注目のセルビア・ベオグラード出身の現代作家、ゾラン・ジヴコヴィッチ(Živković)による摩訶不思議なストーリーを集めた傑作選。 SF、ポストモダン、シュールレアリスムと形容されるジヴコヴィッチの作品。シンプルな文章の背後に見え隠れするユーモアやシュールさ、知性や深みといっ たものが織り成す独特の世界。一見バラバラに見えていたパーツがクライマックスに近づくにつれて、ひとつの形をなしていくよう綿密に計算されたプロット。 シュールなファンタジーの名手として注目株のジヴコヴィッチの世界を、今回は日本語の翻訳でお届けいたします。
The first Japanese-language introduction to the fascinating world of Serbian fantasy master Zoran Zivkovic. Contains three of his best shorts: "The Teashop," "The Fire" and "Hole in the Wall," along with an introductory essay by Tatsumi Takayuki. (Japanese-language edition)

Impossible Stories (Japanese Edition)

ゾラン・ジフコヴィッチ

Zoran Živković

All eleven hardcover editions of Zoran Zivkovic's fiction, with matching dust jackets, for weeks of fascinating adventures probing the thin boundary between the ordinary and the author's startling and thought-provoking portrayals of the world of fantastika. The titles included are:   Escher's Loops The Fourth Circle The Image Interpreter The Writer & The Ghostwriter Impossible Stories I (includes Time Gifts, Impossible Encounters, Seven Touches of Music, The Library, and Steps through the Mist) Impossible Stories II (includes Four Stories Till the End, Twelve Collections, The Bridge, Miss Tamara the Reader, and Amarcord) Hidden Camera The Book The Papyrus Trilogy Compartments The Five Wonders of the Danube

The Zoran Živković Collection

Cadmus Press

Once again Zivkovic demonstrates the sheer power of storytelling in this complex cycle of interlocking narratives. Like one of Escher's drawings, the narrative threads lead one through a dizzying labyrinth of recurring themes, images and characters, all of whom are linked with elegant mathematical precision: God and suicide, food and poison, monks, athletes, soldiers and soccer players all take their places in the circle-dance. Absurdity, surreality and humour abound; death is the ultimate destiny, yet always the next story offers infinite ways of escape.

Escher's Loops

Geopoetika

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