Steps Through the Mist
A November 2007 BookSense Notable Book and the winner of the 2008 Gold Award for Superb Craftsmanship from the Detroit Club of Printing House Craftsmen.
Original title: Koraci kroz maglu. Publishers in English: Polaris (2003), PS Publishing (UK, 2006, as part of the mega-collection Impossible Stories), Aio Publishing (US, 2007).
Stories from the book have been published in the UK (Interzone: September, November/December 2002, January, February, March 2003), in Finland (Tähtivaeltaja: February 2003), and in France (Les moutons électriques: Fall 2005). The story “Alarm Clock on the Night Table” was broadcast by BBC Radio 7 on 11 March 2007.
Five women of various ages face, each in her own way, what seems to be the deterministic trap of Fate: a freshman in a girls’ boarding school with the strange ability to share other people’s dreams; a young woman in a straitjacket, desperately trying to locate a very particular future; a middle-aged skier refusing to be just a puppet on a string; an elderly fortune-teller with insufficient faith in her own trade; finally, an old lady whose very precious alarm clock is suddenly broken. And engulfing all of them, a strange mist through which no-one can see clearly…
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Zoran Zivkovic
Zoran Živković (born 1948) is a writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator. He was born in Belgrad, Serbia. His writing belongs to the middle European fantastika tradition, and shares much in common with such masters as Mikhail Bulgakov, Franz Kafka and Stanislaw Lem.
Zoran Živković graduated in literary theory from the Department of General Literature of the University of Belgrade in 1973. In 2000 his engagement in SF and in literary studies discontinued, and turned entirely to writing prose.
In 2007 he was appointed professor in the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade where he now teaches Creative Writing.
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