The Imperial Navy has long been at war. It is a well-oiled machine, a mighty galactic power in which nothing can go wrong.Enter Pre-Private Joseph Fux, self-proclaimed Idiot, Second Class.When Fux arrives on board the light frigate UPS Spitz, things immediately begin to go wrong. It’s not Fux’s fault. It never is. Accidents just happen when he’s around, despite the best intentions.And as the always-cheerful Fux bungles his way through one job after another,...

What happens when every wish you make is immediately granted by God? If you could use the power of music to travel through time? If your body was the battleground for a strange, alien invasion? In this, his debut collection in English, Israeli author Nir Yaniv shows his remarkable versatility, collecting stories from over a decade of writing and a wide range of the fantastic. In turns humorous, lyrical, profound - but always entertaining - these are the haunting tales of an autho...

Into the city of Tel Aviv the whirlwinds come, and nothing will ever be the same.Through a city torn apart by a violence they cannot comprehend, three disparate people — a documentary film-maker, a yeshiva student, and a psychotic fireman — must try to survive, and try to find meaning: even if it means being lost themselves. As Tel Aviv is consumed, a strange mountain rises at the heart of the city, and shows the outline of what may be another, alien world beyond. Can there be rede...

In sechzehn Geschichten nehmen uns sechzehn israelische Autor:innen auf eine phantastische Reise mit. Dabei treffen wir etwa auf hochentwickelte Mäuse, die einen Krieg gegen die Menschheit führen, auf drei Geschwister, die den Weltrekord im Puzzeln brechen wollen, auf eine Frau, die den Tod heiratet, und auf eine Telepathin, die die Gedanken Verstorbener liest und sich Stück für Stück darin verliert. Die Texte eint hierbei nicht bloß der Entwurf einer spekulativen Welt, nicht bloß das Phan...