Last year February while visiting Switzerland I ended up buying a stack of books in Zürich. As we happened to visit again last week, I made plans to visit the same bookstore and check out newly published Swiss and German literature and science fiction.
This year’s haul at the Orell Füssli store in Zürich contains:

• Parts Per Million by Theresa Hannig, 2024 climate near future fiction by German author
• Muskeln aus Plastik by Selma Kay Matter, 2024 novel by Swiss author and playwright
• Vor aller Augen by Martina Clavadetscher. I had read a book by this author last year and enjoyed it a lot. So this 2022 work by her was on my wishlist. This novel focuses on women in famous paintings and asks who they were outside the frame.
• Seiten des Himmels by Philipp Schönthaler, which I came across in a Berlin bookstore last October when it had just been released, and now bought. German author. Schönthaler published some interesting non-fiction work, one of which I did buy in Berlin last fall.
• Verzauberte Vorbestimmung by Jonas Lüscher, published 2025, both a historical and futuristic story
• Proxi by Aiki Mira, a 2024 sf story by this German author
• Karma by Alexander Schimmelbusch, 2024 near future SF novel by this German author

The seven books I bought laid out on the floor, after we returned from a day trip to Zürich last week