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Stanisław Lem
137 Seconds (Part I)
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“137 Seconds” is a short story by Polish sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem, translated into English for the first time by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
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Stanisław Lem
137 Seconds (Part II)
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“137 Seconds” is a short story by Polish sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem, translated into English for the first time by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
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Stanisław Lem
137 Seconds (Part III)
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“137 Seconds” is a short story by Polish sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem, translated into English for the first time by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
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The Hunt

short story
The Hunt
Stanisław Lem’s Unknown Story
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Racing across mountains and remote backwoods, a solitary figure is on the run from a team of heavily armed hunters. Will he manage to get away? Antonia Lloyd-Jones's translation of a previously unknown story by the great master of science fiction.
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Fiction
And Now, a Legend...
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An old legend about a knight and a blacksmith, told as a short fairy tale by a much-loved Polish children’s author.
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Fiction
Pukke
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One of our authors imagines the encounters of various Swedes – and a Pole! – with a mythical imp known as Pukke.
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short story
To Everything, Tern Tern Tern
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A short story set in 2040, when due to global warming Iceland’s climate becomes
vastly colder and harsher. A biology teacher disappears during a school trip and her daughter starts to search for her.
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You Don’t Exist

Fiction
You Don’t Exist
An Excerpt from the Novel “Erased”
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In this extract from Miha Mazzini’s “Erased”, two Slovenians have an unpleasant surprise when trying to return to an apartment in Ljubljana.
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short story
Captain Nobody
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We imagine how Captain Nemo might have looked, had he been a Polish aristocrat fighting Russian tyranny, as Jules Verne originally intended in “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”.
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Fiction
A Polish Tourist in the USSR
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In this extract from Juliusz Strachota’s “A Polish Tourist in the USSR” the protagonist makes his way to Crimea with the help of a childhood guide book.
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short story
The End of the World
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Our writer imagines a situation in which the world ends – by returning every animate and inanimate thing to its beginning.
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Boys

Non-Fiction
Boys
An Excerpt from “Absolute Zero”
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In this extract from Artem Chekh’s book “Absolute Zero”, the author gives an account of his experiences as a soldier visiting a town in Eastern Ukraine affected by the war in Donbas.
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short story
New Jesus
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In the future, people and dogs walk on water. This short story by an award-winning American novelist is the story of a certain beginning.
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So Much Cash!

So Much Cash!
The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma
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In this excerpt from the first published translation of Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz’s classic 1932 novel “The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma”, the titular protagonist is made an offer he can’t refuse...
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short story
Our Day of Reckoning Won’t Stay
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1967, the Polish People’s Republic. An upstanding officer of the Citizen’s Militia, one Sergeant Teofil Olkiewicz, is sent to a metalworks to investigate the theft of a drill. He might come back with more than he’s expecting...
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short story
Professor Tamura’s Springtails
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When Professor Tamura moved to Warsaw with his wife, he wanted only one thing: to study the local springtails. A fictional crime story with a zoological twist.
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short story
The Solution
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In a distant future, Candace Laguarde has run out of the pharmaceutic Femper. If she doesn’t get some more soon, who knows what will happen… A short story by an American author.
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The Adventures of Sindbad the Seafarer

Fiction
The Adventures of Sindbad the Seafarer
The First Adventure
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In the first translation of Bolesław Leśmian’s classic children’s book “The Adventures of Sindbad the Seafarer”, the eponymous character discovers that he has been usurped by a doppelgänger...
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short story
An Encounter in Tirana
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One day, the Head Assistant of Dental Medicine finds himself in Tirana for a dentistry conference. Little does he know that he will find his late father, too. A short story by a Bulgarian writer.
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Fiction
A Fragile Autumn and Restless Hummingbirds
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In this excerpt from Czech writer Radka Denemarková’s novel “A Contribution to the History of Joy”, we join a policeman as he investigates the scene of the death of a wealthy businessman in Prague. The facts suggest a suicide, but not all is as it seems...
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