Hungarian SF from the Socialist Era: An Awesome Find
More on this book later – the last page held real treasure... By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** I delved into Socialist-era Hungarian SF of late for some real adventure, and I'll have more to report to you about the experience in the coming days. For now... I will just share here what I found on the last page of the book above ( A titokzatos kecskebak or The Mysterious Goat Buck by Dezső Kemény, Budapest, Hungary: Móra Ferenc Könyvkiadó, 1970). It is an advertisement of the services of the State Insurance Company (Állami Biztosító). Whoever wrote the text was trying real hard to feel out the pulse of science fiction and combine it with the zeitgeist to achieve maximum promotion effect. You'll find the translation of the text below (and then I also add the original for proper documentation). Can you resist this? Don't even try. It may cause nervousness and feeling ill at ease. ...