Impossible Stories I

<p><em>Impossible Stories I</em> is a collection of several of the author’s finest works including <em>Time Gifts Impossible Encounters Seven Touches of Music The Library</em> (winner of the World Fantasy Award) and <em>Steps through the Mist</em>. The perfect introduction to the incredible world of Zoran Živkovi?.</p><ul> <li><em>Impossible Stories</em> might be approached as if one were inspecting a handsome piece of furniture a cabinet in which each of any number of regularly sized and shaped drawers is built precisely to contain and to somehow exemplify its own metaphysical freight or uncanny puzzle and it is in the rhythm and variety of the whole too that the nature of Živkovi?’s craft can be apprehended and enjoyed.<br /> —Tony White Wasafiri</li> <li>…even though they own and use computers Živkovi?’s characters seem decidedly nineteenth century. They are as intelligent and as neurotic as Poe’s personae and admirers of that master of the outre–or of Borges Gogol Capek and Lem–will be enthralled by them.<br /> —Ray Olson Booklist</li> <li>…well worth reading for the ingenuity of Živkovi?’s stories. He is extraordinarily clever and has a particular talent for devising awkward moral dilemmas for his characters. His writing is also … quite unlike that of anyone else. <br /> —Cheryl Morgan Emerald City</li></ul>