BLACK HOLE HEART AND OTHER STORIES

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K.A. TERYNA
Translated by Alex Shvartsman
  • October, 2025  978-1-958880-29-6
  • trade paperback, 5.5 x 8.5​​
  • Preorder copies below; ebook and additional print copy orders forthcoming from other venues. 
  • Cover art and design by K.A. Teryna

The world is not how we perceive it.

A blizzard may be the fury of a whale god. Intelligent bees watch our every move. Monsters lurk in the metro underpasses while others haunt our dreams. Are we asleep in frozen sarcophagi, en route to a new planet? Should we swallow jellyfish, drink colors, or repaint the sky?

This book has the answers. But in return, it might steal your heart.

​Black Hole Heart and Other Stories contains 13 speculative tales by the award-winning author and illustrator K.A. Teryna, translated from Russian.
“A singular talent, with writing fresh and strange.”
     — Lavie Tidhar

"What is most impressive here is the range of these glittering stories, from cyberpunk to folklore, generation starship to dream invasion. Again and again, I laughed in astonishment at turns of phrase and twists of the mundane into the surreal. With her brooding sense of the absurd, K.A. Teryna will teach you a new way to embrace the fantastic. I needed to read these stories — you do too!" 
     — James Patrick Kelly winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards 

"Dazzling and surreal."
     — The Times of London

  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
K.A. Teryna is an award-winning author and illustrator. She was born in two places at once, one of which is beyond the Arctic Circle. Her fiction has been translated from Russian into six languages. English translations of her stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Apex, F&SF, Strange Horizons, Samovar, Podcastle, Galaxy’s Edge, and elsewhere. Her English-language short story collection is Black Hole Heart and Other Stories, from Fairwood Press. As of late, Chekhov the Cat has become K.A. Teryna's co-author. He's in charge of keeping her warm and firmly in her seat. K.A. Teryna's website is www.k-a-teryna.blogspot.com. 

  • ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Alex Shvartsman is the author of Kakistocracy (2023), The Middling Affliction (2022), and Eridani’s Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Over 120 of his stories have appeared in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, etc. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a three-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction. His translations from Russian have appeared in F&SF, Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Analog, Asimov’s, etc. Alex has edited over a dozen anthologies, including the long-running Unidentified Funny Objects series. His website is http://www.alexshvartsman.com.