Tag Archives: Small Beer Press

SF Authors as Translators

Did you know that some of the most well-known Anglophone speculative fiction authors have also translated SF into English ? I know! So cool!               John Brunner- translation from the French The Overlords of War by Gérard Klein (Doubleday and Company, 1973).   Sue Burke- translations from the Spanish “Light

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The SFT Panel at WisCon43 and More

The SFT Panel This year’s Speculative Fiction in Translation panel at WisCon43 was a fantastic blend of insightful conversation, big ideas, and honest discussion about what it means to bring a speculative fiction text from one language into another. It was an honor for me to moderate this panel, which included the wonderful Arrate Hidalgo,

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Review: The Invisible Valley by Su Wei

translated by Austin Woerner Small Beer Press April 3, 2018 400 pages grab a copy Read an excerpt here Read an interview with the translator here The Invisible Valley is one of those hard-to-classify novels that resists labels precisely because it’s exploring, through the story it tells, what terms like “fantasy,” “reality,” and “magic” even

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Out This Month: April

FICTION “The Wings of Earth” by Jiang Bo, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 1)         “Fifth: You Shall Not Waste” by Piero Schiavo Campo, translated from Italian by Sarah Jane Webb (Akashic Books, April)       “Taklamakan Misdelivery” by Bae Myung-hoon, translated from the Korean by

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Out This Month: November

Isra Isle by Nava Semel, translated by Jessica Cohen (Mandel Vilar Press, November 1) “This novel is inspired by a true historical event. Before Theodore Herzl there was Mordecai Manuel Noah, an American journalist, diplomat, playwright, and visionary. In September 1825 he bought Grand Island, downriver from Niagara Falls, from the local Native Americans as

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