Here are some of the articles about SF in translation featured in the New York Review of Science Fiction during the last few months: Brian Stableford: Locating the Future in the Past 2: X.B. Saintine’s Account of an Antediluvian Civilization Michael Swanwick: A Few Words with Sergei Lukyanenko Brian Stableford: The Fantastic Fiction of
edited by Bill Campbell and Francesco Verso Rosarium Publishing April 17, 2018 310 pages If you’ve been looking for a superb collection of speculative fiction from around the world; fiction that interrogates humanity’s technological, moral, and, evolutionary trajectory; fiction that doesn’t hesitate to probe our darkest fears and secret desires– if you’ve been looking
I’ve added a page to this site called “Reading Wuxia and Xiania” for anyone interested in learning about popular Chinese fantasy in translation. Enjoy! And please let me know about any resources/titles/etc. to add.
translated by Tyran Grillo Haikasoru November 21, 2017 272 pages grab a copy I’ve now read the first five books in the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, and I’m impressed by how well Tanaka controls the plot of this intergalactic war and its main participants across so many pages without the story unraveling (kind
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards ran from 2009-2014, and in those years highlighted many excellent works of sf in translation. Below are the lists of winners and honorable mentions. 2013 winners (for works published in 2012) Long Form Winner Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City by Kai-cheung Dung, translated from the Chinese
“The Lighthouse Girl” by Bao Shu, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld) “The Heaven-Moving Way” by Chi Hui, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Apex Magazine) Faces From the Past (The Queen’s Adept, Book 2) by by Rodolfo Martínez & Felicidad Martínez, translated by
This is the fifteenth in a series of posts featuring speculative flash fiction in translation. The series highlights both new and established spec fic writers from around the world. Florin Purluca is a Romanian writer, living in Focșani, Romania. He has a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and works in a psychiatric hospital in
Check out this list of novels and novellas by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (warning: these guys were PROLIFIC).
Your weekly dose of SF in translation links: My review of Frankenstein in Baghdad in WLT I recently talked about all things SFT on the Skiffy and Fanty podcast Out next year: a new anthology of Chinese SF in translation
