Twelve: A Romanian SF Anthology edited by Cornel Robu Subject: Science Fiction Publisher: Sedona Publishing (Romania) Edition Our Price inc. p&p Status trade paperback, 219pp, ISBN 9739601357, 1995 N/A out of print

Twelve of the best Romanian SF stories, especially collected and translated into English for the wider Euopean market, reveal how this newly emancipated country is still coming to terms with its freedom even in 1995. A 'sense of loss' is a more common than the 'sense of wonder', the themes more akin to soft SF than hard, which perhaps is only to be expected given the technological starvation of the Ceausescu years.