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Eurasian Monsters
2020
First Published
4.13
Average Rating
180
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Speculative fiction short stories by authors from all over Russia, from Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria. The stories are based on folklore, myths and legends about monsters from the region. Eurasian Monsters is the seventh and last volume in a coffee table book series with dark fiction and art about monsters from around the world.
Avg Rating
4.13
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Authors

Maria Galina
Maria Galina
Author · 7 books

Maria Galina (Russian: Мария Галина) is one of the most interesting authors among those who made their names in the turbulent 1990s. She writes both literary and science fiction (with ten SF books to her credit). She is also a noted poet, a thoughtful critic, and translator of English and American science fiction, in all of which she excels. She is a winner of many important prizes for her prose and poetry and her critical essays. A graduate from Odessa University majoring in sea biology she took part in several sea expeditions but in 1995 she gave up biology and took up writing professionally. Apart from numerous Russian publications she has three books published in Poland and her work has been included in various anthologies of Russian writing abroad (Russian Women Poets: Modern Poetry in Translation, UCL, London, 2002; and Amerika. Russian Writers View the United States, Dalkey Archive Press). Her literary fiction contains a strong element of magic realism while gender issues have always been the focus of her attention. As a poet she was awarded by some of the most prestigious Russian poetry awards - The Moscow Count (for the best poetry book published in Moscow) and Anthology (for the highest achievements in the modern Russian Poetry)

Ekaterina Sedia
Ekaterina Sedia
Author · 11 books
Ekaterina Sedia is also credited as E. Sedia.
Bogi Takács
Bogi Takács
Author · 7 books
Bogi Takács is a Hungarian Jewish author who writes short-form speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction and weird unclassifiables. Eir work has been published in a variety of venues like Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Apex, Lightspeed and more.
Karolina Fedyk
Author · 2 books
Interesuje się fantastyką, popkulturą oraz lingwistyką. Należy do Sekcji Literackiej Śląskiego Klubu Fantastyki „Logrus”, współpracuje z krakowskim fanzinem Smokopolitan oraz współtworzy stronę Lewa ręka fantastyki. Pisze po polsku i po angielsku. Wiersz What Wants Us uzyskał nominacje do Pushcart Prize i Nagrody Rhyslinga, zaś opowiadanie Lisie ognie zdobyło trzecie miejsce w konkursie Ostatni Dzień Pary II. Pisze także publicystykę dotyczącą literatury fantastycznej, fandomu i zjawisk społecznych.
Alex Shvartsman
Alex Shvartsman
Author · 21 books

Alex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, and translator from Brooklyn, NY. He's the author of The Middling Affliction (2022) and Eridani's Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Kakistocracy, a sequel to The Middling Affliction, is forthcoming in 2023. Over 120 of his stories have been published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist (2015 and 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction. His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent were published in 2015. His second collection, The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories followed in 2018. Alex is the editor of over a dozen anthologies, including the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F.

Marta Magdalena Lasik
Marta Magdalena Lasik
Author · 5 books
Opowiadaczka science-fiction, teoretycznie: operatorka elektrowni jądrowych, faktycznie: korposzczur. Ponadto fotoamatorka, wrocławianka i trochę żeglarka. Publikowała między innymi w OkoLicy Strachu, Fenixie, Nowej Fantastyce i antologiach ŚKF oraz PFFN. Opowiadaniem "Kwestia czasu" zgarnęła grand prix ósmej edycji konkursu Fantazje Zielonogórskie.
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