Welcome to Litsy!

About a third of the way into Mars, an SF short story collection by Croatian/Bosnian author Asja Bakić. I love the cover.

Mars is a great collection of daring, feminist, genre-bending fiction stories with which Bakić has inserted speculative fiction into the contemporary frame of Bosnian literature. These are short and explosive tales, mixing dystopia with erotica, thrillers with psychological narratives. She delves into the power of writing, alienness, names, language, pleasure, and the many representations we can read of "the self."

Loved it!

These stories from Bosnian writer Asja Bakic, translated by Jennifer Zoble, run a gamut of speculative and satirical situations (so don't expect Mars as a setting for most of them.) These stories capture a bit of bizarre combined with complex characters but all with a larger commentary on the world. (They reminded me of Julia Elliott (The Wilds) in the way there are elements that sneak up on you and take a story in an unexpected direction.)