Author Archives: Rachel Cordasco

Friday Links

Your weekly dose of SF in translation links: A new work of Czech sf available from Twisted Spoon Press The third volume of the Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction is out this July A review of 2084: The End of the World Lithub’s list of books by Czech women that should be translated– includes

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Friday Links

Your weekly dose of SF in Translation links: “Japanese Refight the War, And Win, in Pulp Fiction”– by Andrew Pollack, NYT, 1995 (I’ve been reading the brilliant novel The Sacred Era by Yoshio Aramaki and learned about this article from the Introduction) “Singapore Fantasy Fiction Takes Flight”– by Olivia Ho, The Straits Times, May 2

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Review: Running on Fumes by Christian Guay-Poliquin

translated by Jacob Homel Talonbooks September 6, 2016 200 pages A post-apocalyptic road novel based loosely on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, Running on Fumes follows an unnamed narrator on a journey to reconnect with his father nearly five thousand miles away. The catalyst for this journey (through both a desolate landscape and

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Out This Month: May

“The Person Who Saw Cetus” by Tang Fei, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Clarkesworld Magazine, May 1).         Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre, translated from the French by Kaiama L. Glover (Akashic Books, May 2) “Hadriana in All My Dreams, winner of the prestigious Prix Renaudot,

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Friday Links

Your weekly dose of #SFinTranslation links: “An Image of Africa From the Sky: Jules Verne’s ‘Five Weeks in a Balloon’”- a review by John Rieder on LARB “An Isle of Amour and the Human Paradise: The Futuristic Fiction of Nicolas Ségur” by Brian Stableford on The New York Review of Science Fiction “World Weaver Press

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