Od Lukijana do Lunjika

by Darko Suvin (Editor), Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift

Povijesni pregled i antologija naučnofantastičke literature:

Francis Bacon: Nova Atlantida
Jonathan Swift: U Laputi i Balnibarbiju (odlomak)
Fitz James O'Brien: Dijamantna leća
Edward Bellamy: U godini 2000 (odlomak)
William Morris: Vijesti iz Nigdjenijeva (odlomak)
Jack London: Čikaška komuna (odlomak)
Miroslav Krleža: K novom kopnu (odlomak)
Karel Čapek: Konac sapiensa (odlomak)
Jevgenij Zamjatin: Mi (odlomak)
Robert A. Heinlein: Neprilagođen
Cordwainer Smith: Igra štakora i zmajeva
Chad Oliver: Artefakt
German Aljtov: Generalni konstruktor
Stanislaw Lem: Zlatni gejzir (odlomak)
Gerard Klein: Planet sedam maski
Robert Sheckley: Ritual
Brian W. Aldiss: Vani
Frederic Brown: Oružje
Arkadij i Boris Strugacki: Noć na Marsu
John Christopher: Čovjek sudbine
Marcel Battin: Zvučna kulisa
Wallace West: Na putu za Pluton

564 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

Darko Ronald Suvin (born Darko Šlesinger) is a Canadian academic, writer and critic who became a professor at McGill University in Montreal. He was born in Zagreb, which at the time was in Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now the capital of Croatia. After teaching at the Department for Comparative Literature at the Zagreb University, and writing his first books and poems in his native language (i.e., in the standardized Croatian variety of Serbo-Croatian), he left Yugoslavia in 1967, and started teaching at McGill University in 1968.

He is best known for several major works of criticism and literary history devoted to science fiction. He was editor of Science-Fiction Studies from 1973 to 1980. Since his retirement from McGill in 1999, he has lived in Lucca, Italy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences).

In 2009, he received Croatian SFera Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction. He is also a member of the Croatian Writers Society (HDP)

In 2016, Suvin published a series of memoirs in the Croatian cultural journal Gordogan on his youth as a member of the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia during the Nazi occupation of Croatia and Yugoslavia and the first years of Josip Tito's Yugoslavia.

His 2016 book Splendour, Misery, and Potentialities: An X-ray of Socialist Yugoslavia (published in translation as Samo jednom se ljubi: radiografija SFR Jugoslavije in Belgrade in 2014, in two printings), an attempt at a dialectical history of socialist Yugoslavia, is widely quoted in most recent books and articles in the emerging field of "post-Yugoslav studies"

Reviews

[Skrivena stranica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Korisno, ali potrebno je pripaziti na izrazit komunistički element koji sam prikazuje vrijeme u kojem je knjiga napisana (a što može i pokazati da neki dijelovi analiza više govore o vremenu u kojem su napisani nego o samome tekstu).

[Davorin Horak]

Obavezna literatura za SF čitatelje. Suvin je već ovdje iznio neka svoja promišljanja koja će detaljizirati i definirati u Metamorfozama. Dakako ima tu skliznuća, ali su zabavna i ukazuju osim akademskog i na čisto fanovsku ljubav prema tekstu.