Balgarianovinite.com The Starship Sloane Publishing Company has published Bulgarian writer Zdravka Evtimova’s collection of science fiction stories, The Strangest of Stories: A Collection of the Weird and Surreal, Evtimova told BTA.
The book was released mid-July and includes stories written in English over the past five years. The book has cover art by Bruce Pennington and a foreword by Nigel Suckling, a Hugo Award-winning science fiction writer.
The collection features stories that combine the fantastic, the magical and the surreal with themes from everyday life. The back-cover blurb says Evtimova conjures “eerie, uneasy realities at once bleak and brooding”. Author A. J. Dalton describes the stories as “metamorphic” and “full of romance, gentle humour, mystery and surprise”. He says “there is a feeling of the modern folk tale about many of them” and “flights of fancy become deeper psychological explorations”.
This is Evtimova’s second book released by Starship Sloane Publishing after He May Wear My Silence, which received the newly established Dr. T. O’Connor Sloane Award for Science Fiction for 2024. Her interest in storytelling began in childhood. Her stories have been published in many countries around the world. In 2015, her story Blood of a Mole was included in English-language textbooks for secondary schools in Denmark, while in January 2019, the same story was included in a literature textbook for lower secondary schools in the US.
Her story Seldom was included in the Best European Fiction 2015 anthology, released by US publisher Dalkey Archive Press in 2015. It’s Your Turn was one of 10 winning stories in the 2005 international short story competition Utopia 2005, held in Nantes, France. The story was included in the anthology Utopia 2005 – Dix auteurs du monde entier. Vassil was one of the ten winning entries in the BBC London world short story competition in 2005. Zdravka Evtimova’s Science Fiction Story Collection Published in US 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-08-17 10:23:14 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law
