Friday Links

Your weekly dose of SF in translation links: I found this interview with Yuya Sato from 2015 “So You Want to Read Japanese Horror: Here’s Where to Start” via Unbound Worlds SF Crossing the Gulf is coming back: a podcast about international sf A review of A Small Charred Face on Intellectus Speculativus My review

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Flash Fiction From Around the World: “Micro-Novels”

This is the fourteenth 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. Yusaku Kitano (北野 勇作) won the 4th Japan Fantasy Novel Grand Prize in 1992 with Mukashi, Kasei no atta basho (Where Mars Used to Be), and

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Out This Month: November

“The Catalog of Virgins” by Nicoletta Vallorani, translated from the Italian by Rachel S. Cordasco (Clarkesworld)           “House Taken Over” by Yuri Herrera, translated from the Spanish by Lisa M. Dillman (Words Without Borders)     Malacqua by Nicola Pugliese, translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside (And Other Stories, November

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Current SFT Projects

This site aims not just to introduce readers to new and exciting international speculative fiction, but also to encourage even more translations. To that end, I’m asking you (translators, authors, and readers) to contribute your expertise! If you’d be willing to send me translated synopses of SF not yet in English, translated flash fiction, or

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Flash Fiction From Around the World: “The Waterfall”

This is the thirteenth 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. The winner of Mexico’s prestigious Premio Nacional del Cuento, Alberto Chimal is one of Mexico’s most celebrated writers of short fiction. He is the author of

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