Science Fiktion

When a young reader once asked Franz Fühmann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick to deny it: he wanted nothing to do with the genre. As he began writing the stories that make up this volume, however, he found himself coming around to the idea of a hybrid genre—what he calls in German Saiäns-Fiktschen, ‘science fiktion’ with a k. In seven interlocking stories, Science Fiktion offers a steampunk takedown of the logic of the Cold War.