Story Details
Categories Science Fiction
Love looks on the past with different eyes. If it could, it would reach back in time to ease the suffering of its love, to make the days of pain be known for joy instead. Time travel stories are often about changing future outcomes, but journeys in time can also find the roots of endearment and compassion.
Author Details
Elena Pavlova Love in the Time of Con Crud
Elena Pavlova lives in Montana, Bulgaria. Her short stories have appeared in various Bulgarian anthologies and magazines, winning awards from national competitions. In 2019, her middle-grade SF novel „Камен и пиратите от 5г“ [_Kamen and the Pirates from 5-B_] won the Bulgarian national award Konstantin Konstantinov. In 2021, her novel „Коледари срещу хали“ [_Christmas Carolers vs Hallus Beasts_] won the ESFS Best Work for Children award. She has had five other novels, two collections of shorter fiction and more than two dozens of gamebooks published, and has translated into Bulgarian authors as diverse as Robert Howard, Robert R. McCammon, and Peter Watts. Her short stories "Love in the Time of Con Crud" and "Two Moons" appeared in _Future Science Fiction Digest_ #3 in 2019 and _Compelling Science Fiction_ #15 in 2020, respectively.
Kalin M. Nenov is a translator, editor, publisher, agent, and writer. Currently, he lives in Sofia, Bulgaria, and acts as Trailblazer at the Human Library Foundation. His translations have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, most notably _Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell-Eligible Authors_ and most recently in _Compelling Science Fiction_ #15 in 2020. Find more on his Goodreads.
Love in the Time of Con Crud, by Elena Pavlova, Translated from the Bulgarian by Elena Pavlova and Kalin M. Nenov
Author Details
Elena Pavlova Love in the Time of Con Crud
Elena Pavlova lives in Montana, Bulgaria. Her short stories have appeared in various Bulgarian anthologies and magazines, winning awards from national competitions. In 2019, her middle-grade SF novel „Камен и пиратите от 5г“ [_Kamen and the Pirates from 5-B_] won the Bulgarian national award Konstantin Konstantinov. In 2021, her novel „Коледари срещу хали“ [_Christmas Carolers vs Hallus Beasts_] won the ESFS Best Work for Children award. She has had five other novels, two collections of shorter fiction and more than two dozens of gamebooks published, and has translated into Bulgarian authors as diverse as Robert Howard, Robert R. McCammon, and Peter Watts. Her short stories "Love in the Time of Con Crud" and "Two Moons" appeared in _Future Science Fiction Digest_ #3 in 2019 and _Compelling Science Fiction_ #15 in 2020, respectively.
Kalin M. Nenov is a translator, editor, publisher, agent, and writer. Currently, he lives in Sofia, Bulgaria, and acts as Trailblazer at the Human Library Foundation. His translations have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, most notably _Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell-Eligible Authors_ and most recently in _Compelling Science Fiction_ #15 in 2020. Find more on his Goodreads.
