"East of a Known Galaxy" (an Anthology of Romanian Sci-Fi Short Stories)
By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** Review of "East of a Known Galaxy" – An Anthology of Romanian Sci-Fi Short Stories , edited by Daniel Timariu and Cristian Vicol. București (Bucharest): Tritonic, 2019. Get ready for a journey... into the unknown. A journey into the known is a semantic paradox, of course. You can only journey into the unknown. The long-established greats of sci-fi can certainly take you on such a journey and, if you're a fan, no doubt many a great English-language work has already done that for you. But — exactly in the same vein as this blogzine's introduction did back in the day — the editors of this anthology of Romanian sci-fi challenge you to read what people from very different cultural, social, political and historical circumstances might tell you in the framework of your beloved genre. No one should be so naive as to think that one only finds talent for sci-fi (