Most of the short fiction has been reprinted from professional magazines or anthologies, such as Oceans of the Mind, Unstuck, Diamonds in the Sky, Future Science Fiction Digest, and others. The almanac also contains about a hundred pages of full-color paintings and black-and-white drawings by over a dozen Bulgarian artists.ФантАstika is a dream come true—both for Atanas P. Slavov and the members of Terra Fantasia Association of Bulgarian SF & F Writers and Artists, who have dedicated half a century to the promotion of speculative fiction in Bulgaria and around the world, and for Kalin M. Nenov and the Human Library Foundation, who have translated human-evolving fiction into English for the past fifteen years. In an age when we need ever more bridges across the world and to the future, ФантАstika comes to offer you some. Will you walk them?ContentsNote: The current selection was last updated on 13 July 2020Terra Fantasia Association of Bulgarian SF & F Writers and Artists / 7Human Library Foundation / 12ФантАstika Almanac: origins and visions / 14Introductory notes / 16Alternative reading orders / 18Science Fiction / 22Artist: Dimitar Yankov / 22“Love in the Time of Con Crud” by Elena Pavlova / 33“How I Saved the World, Or, The Best Job” by Valentin D. Ivanov / 40“Beating the Air” by Velko Miloev / 48Artist: Vasil Ivanov / 54The Celestial Way by Drake Vato (excerpts) / 64“Deflation” by Valentin D. Ivanov / 89“Virgil and the Water” by Svetoslav Nikolov / 93“Mindster” by Valentin D. Ivanov / 113Artist: Atanas P. Slavov / 123“The Empty Room” by Aleksandar Karapanchev / 149“The Most Terrible Beast” by Khristo Poshtakov / 156Artist: Kalin Nikolov (Illustrations) / 161“Father” by Ivaylo G. Ivanov / 177Artist: Stefan Lefterov / 185Fantasy & Magic Realism / 197To Wake a Dragon Girl by Nikolay Tellalov (excerpt) / 199Artist: Kate Danailova / 216“The Assassination” by Johan Vladimir / 222Artist: Plamen Semkov / 253I, Sinner Ivan by Nikolay Svetlev (excerpt) / 262“Three Tales of a Very Windy Town” by Lyubomir P. Nikolov / 268The Coin by Lights amidst Shadows (excerpt) / 273Artist: Peter Stanimirov / 295“Words Unspoken, Beasts Unnamed” by Krasimira Stoeva / 307Mina, the Spells and the White Vial by Vesela Flamburari (excerpt) / 327Orpheus Descends into Hell by Georgi Malinov (excerpt) / 333Artist: Dimo Milanov / 346“The Dragon and the Orange Juice” by Genoveva Detelinova / 356Avant-garde Speculative Fiction / 373“Impossibly Blue” by Zdravka Evtimova / 374“Asked the Soldier, ‘Who Called Me?’” by Yancho Cholakov / 378“A Small Step” by Mari Paskalev / 391“Journey to Akkad” by Val Todorov / 397Artist: Kalin Nikolov (Graphic Arts) / 415“Dragonflies and Planets” by Aleksandar Karapanchev / 421“That Thing Gone with the Birds” by Val Todorov / 423“The Film-thin Bound” by Kalin M. Nenov / 432Chirpy Firewood by Maria Velcheva (excerpts) / 434“Wrong” by Zdravka Evtimova / 459“In the Beginning Was the Subway” by Lyubomir P. Nikolov / 465Artist: Georgi Markov / 479Fandom / 485Ivan Yefremov SF & Futurology Club / 485Chronicles of Ivan Yefremov SF Club / 486Artist: Emil Valev / 498Futurum / 502“The Keresztury TVirs” by Ivan Popov / 503Acknowledgments / 510You can ask for a preview version of the almanac from the link in the URL field below.