Fiction in translation

More tales from Cafe Funiculi Funicula, where customers may travel back in time - if they obey the rules.

Nana the cat is on a road trip. He is not sure where he's going or why, but it means he gets to sit in the front seat of a silver van with his beloved owner, Satoru. Side by side they cruise around Japan through the changing seasons, visiting old friends. There's the brusque farmer for whom cats ...

Cixin Liu is China's bestselling science fiction author and one of the most important voices in world SF. His novel, 'The Three-Body Problem', was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award. Here is the first collection of his short fiction: 11 stories, including 5 Chinese Galaxy ...

Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work. The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deep...