My English-language collection "Black Hole Heart and Other Stories" (translated by Alex Shvartsman, published by Fairwood Press) is out starting today — look for it in your favorite online store (or in your least favorite but global one).
Fairwood Press, 2025
translated by Alex Shvartsman
The world is not how we perceive it.
A blizzard may be the fury of a whale god. Intelligent bees watch our every move. Monsters lurk in the metro underpasses while others haunt our dreams. Are we asleep in frozen sarcophagi, en route to a new planet? Should we swallow jellyfish, drink colors, or repaint the sky?
This book has the answers. But in return, it might steal your heart.
Black Hole Heart and Other Stories contains 13 speculative tales by the award-winning author and illustrator K.A. Teryna, translated from Russian.
“A singular talent, with writing fresh and strange.”
"What is most impressive here is the range of these glittering stories, from cyberpunk to folklore, generation starship to dream invasion. Again and again, I laughed in astonishment at turns of phrase and twists of the mundane into the surreal. With her brooding sense of the absurd, K.A. Teryna will teach you a new way to embrace the fantastic. I needed to read these stories — you do too!"
winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards
"K.A.Teryna's kaleidoscopic vision spans nations, worlds, and genres, delivering stories that range from sharp-eyed science fiction to dreamy myth, and all of it alive with a fiercely beating heart."
author of Saturnalia and The Night Parade and Other Stories
