Bango saradai
Science fiction by Ovidiu Bufnila, Romania
"Bango saradai!" shouted the captain of the whale boat, taking out his filthy cap. I didn't understand what he meant. I left my rifle the barrel down and I hailed him on my turn. He brought with him "The Big Blue Whale". His big-bellied ship was approaching the gulf really slowly.
"Bango saradai!" whispered to me Elbina, the landlady of "The Silver Bed".
"Bango saradai!" whisteled Montgolferrer, the captain of "the Yellow Dirigible Ballon" who had just passed swishing over our city.
"Bango saradai!" cried cheerfully Patrowsky,
who had just got out of his Martian rocket.
"Bango saradai!" I cried out, watching the sheriff riding a virtual pterodactyl.
The sheriff was really upset of me making a hare of him.
He digitalised me for two months and a half.
When turning back from Patagonia, Montgolferrer got me out on bail.
The moment he saw me passing through the jail gate,
he cried to me laughing: "Bango saradai!".
And I punched right his nose.
Translated by Ioana Bostan
Ovidiu Bufnila
A romanian science fiction writer
Stories by Bufnila in Phantazm
Bango saradai
Monsera banosera
Moreaugarins crusade
Pataggonia
Bibliography
Jazzonia, 1992, award for best Romanian SF novel, 1992.
The Purple Death, stories, 1995.
Luxury Corpses, novel, 2001.
Moreaugarin's Crusade, novel, 2001.
A Magical Ring, stories, 2002.
Magnetic Fields, novel, 2002.
Biography
Ovidiu Bufnila:
Born on the 15th august 1957,
in Tg.Ocna, Bacau county, Romania.
Studies: Mechanics Faculty, Galati county, Romania, 1981.
He works in mass media and political and marketing consulting.
He publish in the Romanian reviews: ArtPanorama, Arc, Luceafarul,
Helion, Sigma, Paradox, Vatra, Tribuna, Convorbiri literare, String,
SuperNova, Tomis, Romania literara, Fictiuni, Forum, Proscris,
and Distantworlds, BetterKarma, Clouds, Antipodean SF, etc.
He received the award for the best Romanian SF story, Mandhala, 2001
and the award Sigma 2002 for excellence in science fiction and
the award Sigma 2002 for the best Romanian SF novel, Moreaugarin's Crusade.
As a recognition of his talent, in 2003 he received the annual Clouds Magazine award.
Ioana Bostan, romanian freelance translator. Born in Bacau, Romania.
Bachelor degree in English/French: "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania;
Faculty of Foreign Languages. Sworn translator: certificate issued by Romanian Ministry of Justice.
e-mail: ioanasdr@hotmail.com
web: www.imagikon.ev.ro/pages/translators/article.php?art=48
