Many people think of the earliest science-fiction as being exclusively British and French, but in fact a couple books about to be published by Jantar Press show that this is far from true. The Science of the Stars by Gustáv Reuss and Newton’s Brain by Jakub Arbes are two early sci-fi books from Slovakia and the Czech Republic respectively.
You can read some excerpts from The Science of the Stars here
Both novels have been translated by David Short and will be published in December 2023
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