translated by Frank Wynne original publication (in French): 1998 first English edition: 2000 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library “This book is dedicated to mankind.” Thus ends Michel Houellebecq’s strange novel The Elementary Particles, a story about, among other things, half-brothers, France, molecular biology, sex, and morality. Translated beautifully
translated by Alex Zucker original publication (in Czech): 2019 first English edition: 2021 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Written in the form of a memoir by a guard at a re-education facility, The Movement is a disturbing story of brainwashing, idealism, and fear. Set sometime in the future
translated by Mac Linscott Ricketts original publication (in Romanian): 1978-79 first English edition: 1988 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library I’ve been intrigued by Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), the Romanian writer, philosopher, and historian, ever since I dedicated a month to Romanian SFT back in 2021. From what I know
translated from the Japanese by Simon Varnum original edition (Japanese): 1983 translated edition: Kurodahan Press, 2018 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Reading The Erinys Incident reminded me that I’m still quite upset about the publisher Kurodahan shutting down. For decades, Kurodahan gave us Anglophone readers a wonderful selection
translated from the Danish by Joan Tate original edition: 1969 translated edition: Doubleday, 1971 183 pages grab a copy through your local independent bookstore or library also see SF Ruminations and The Complete Review for their thoughts on this strange and fascinating novel Anders Bodelsen’s Freezing Down came out in Denmark around the time
translated by Martin Aitken Lolli Editions (2020), New Directions (2022) 133 pages grab a copy here or or through your local independent bookstore or library Olga Ravn’s The Employees is the first work of Danish SFT I’ve ever read, and it doesn’t disappoint. Presented as a series of statements given to a committee
Daniel Haeusser reviews short works of SFT that appear both online and in print. He is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Canisius College, where he teaches microbiology and leads student research projects with bacteria and bacteriophage. He’s also an associate blogger with the American Society for Microbiology’s popular Small Things Considered. Daniel reads
Hebrew title: עולם הסוף translated by Mitch Ginsburg Tor Books June 25, 2013 368 pages grab a copy here or or through your local independent bookstore or library The World of the End reminds me of the TARDIS: both are larger on the inside than their outside would suggest. By “inside” and “outside,” in terms
I recently reviewed The Agents by Grégoire Courtois, translated from the French by Rhonda Mullins, for Strange Horizons. Here’s an excerpt from the review: This question, coming near the end of the French surrealistic science fiction novel, The Agents, encapsulates the entire two-hundred-plus-page journey that is this strange, hypnotic text. While its implications and lessons
Hebrew title: טיט translated by Gabriel Levin FSG November 13, 2018 416 pages grab a copy here or or through your local independent bookstore or library Originally published in Hebrew in 2016 as טיט, Muck is one of the most original books I’ve read in many years. Slamming together the social, technological, and military
