Black Hole Heart and Other Stories
collection
translated by Alex Shvartsman
Fairwood Press, 2025
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.
Все мои птицы
collection
Редакция Елены Шубиной, 2025
«Все мои птицы» – коллекция миров. В одних свет можно почувствовать на вкус, в других тьма заполняет каждый уголок. Одни когтями и клыками защищаются от чужаков, другие притаились за поворотом, подстерегая очередную жертву. Одни летят сквозь пространство и время прочь от нашей реальности, другие навсегда останутся рядом. В каждом мире свои герои, чудовища и боги. В каждом – своя история. И только птицы вольны выбирать любую историю и любой из миров.
Medusa
collection
traduzione di Evelina Croce, Olga Matsyna
Future Ficrion, 2019
EDIZIONE BILINGUE RUSSO-ITALIANO
I mondi di K.A. Teryna – autrice di spicco della fantascienza russa contemporanea – sono difficili da dimenticare: in “Medusa” siamo in una parodia del cyberpunk, potenziato da social network e gamification, in stile Black Mirror; “Krözelcikus” è un giallo che parte dal furto dell’elioforo, una macchina fotografica ritenuta illegale; “Hunky-dory” spazia dalle nanotecnologie agli studi di Vernadskij sulla noosfera, anche se alla base del racconto c’è il sacrificio e l’illuminazione; per finire, in “Fatamorgana”, il protagonista fugge dall’incubo post-mortem di una Mosca staliniana che non è ciò che sembra. Le storie di K.A. Teryna possono sembrare favole moderne intrise di una comicità grottesca e nera tipicamente russa che ondeggiano tra il surreale e il futuribile. Tuttavia, a un livello più profondo, sono storie di liberazione che trascendono l’orizzonte delle nostre convinzioni.
Serpent Carriers
novelette
translated by Alex Shvartsman
— Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 226, July 2025
Old people are of little use, but on occasion, they know stories and are skilled at telling them. Jorge, an old man with a face wrinkled and cracked like last year’s berry, kept his stories to himself.
— You can read full text here
— Audio edition, read by Kate Baker
Songs of the Snow Whale
short story
translated by Alex Shvartsman
— Reactor Magazine, December 2024
— Some of the Best from Reactor: 2024 Edition
At the edge of the world, on the island of R’evava in the Arctic Ocean, a blizzard rages outside as five people gathered in a small weather station pass the time telling each other stories while they wait for a break in the storm...
A Finalist for the 2024 BSFA Award for Best Translated Short Fiction
The Errata
short story
translated by Alex Shvartsman
— Asimov's Science Fiction, March-April 2023
— StarShipSofa 765, narrated by Tahereh Safavi
The Tin Pilot
short story
translated by Alex Shvartsman
— Asimov's Science Fiction, July-August 2022
— Asimov's Science Fiction Podcast, narrated by Jordan Kurella
— The Big Book of Cyberpunk
The Farctory
novelette
translated by Alex Shvartsman
— The Best of World SF: Volume 2
Lajos and his Bees
short story
translated by Alex Shvartsman
— The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November-December 2021
The Jellyfish
short story
translated by Alex Shvartsman
— Future Science Fiction Digest, Issue 11, June 2021
— World Science Fiction #2: Reloading the Future
The Chartreuse Sky
short story
with Alexander Bachilo
translated by Alex Shvartsman
— Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2021
No One Ever Leaves Port Henri
short story
translated by Alex Shvartsman
— Galaxy's Edge, Issue 46, September 2020
— The Rosetta Archive: Notable Speculative Short Fiction in Translation
Copy Cat
short story
with Alex Shvartsman
— Strange Horizons. Issue 6 Aug. 2018
— Strange Horizons Podcast, narrated by Anaea Lay
— PodCastle 603, narrated by Yaroslav Barsukov
Morpheus
short story
translated by Alex Shvartsman
— Samovar. Issue 24 June 2019
— Eurasian Monsters
Untilted
short story
translated by Alex Shvartsman
— Apex Magazine. Issue 102, November 2017
— Samovar. Issue 24 Sep. 2018
Black Hole Heart
short story
translated by Alex Shvartsman
— Apex Magazine. Issue 97, June 2017
Madame Félidé Elopes
short story
translated by Anatoly Belilovsky
— PodCastle 428, narrated by Tina Connolly
— Sunspot Jungle, Volume Two
