“Damnatio Memoriae” by I. A. Galdames translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Monica Louzon (Neon Dystopia) With the Heart of a Ghost by Lim Sunwoo, translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim (Unnamed Press, February 10) With the Heart of a Ghost is a debut collection of eight fantastical stories translated by Chi-Young Kim that
translated from the Hungarian by the author Valancourt Books, 2026 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Contents: “‘a pit full of teeth’” “Transistor” “The Designated Contact Individual” “Damage d10+7” “The Summer I Chose to Die” “This’ll Make Things a Little Easier” (originally published in English here) * I’m not
translated by Chi-Young Kim original publication (in Korean): 2024 this edition: Unnamed Press, 2026 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Lim Sunwoo’s With the Heart of a Ghost is the latest in a recent streak of Korean SFT that shows no signs of slowing down. Science fiction, fantasy, magical
Here’s my joint SFT review with Joachim Boaz over at Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations, this time on Herbert W. Franke’s “Slum” (1970, tr. 1973). Check it out here!
Check out my end-of-year review of some of my favorite SFT in the latest issue of Strange Horizons here.
translated by Maya Vinokour original publication (in Russian): 1989 (LF), 1972 (US) first English edition: 2020, Chicago Review Press grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library After reading the remarkable nested novel Lame Fate/Ugly Swans, I decided to make a list of the other Strugatsky works that I’ve read so
“Tomorrow’s Beautiful Dream” by Ju Chu, translated from the Chinese by Carmen Yiling Yan (Clarkesworld, January 1) “All My Birds“ by K.A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Asimov’s, January/February) Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo, translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Robin Myers (Algonquin Books, January 13) In the disorienting, devastatingly
JANUARY “Tomorrow’s Beautiful Dream” by Ju Chu, translated from the Chinese Carmen Yiling Yan (Clarkesworld, January 1). “The Sandy Shore” by Goulc’han Kervella, translated from the Breton (France) by Michelle Couny (Words Without Borders, January 26). FEBRUARY “Damnatio Memoriae” by I. A. Galdames, translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Monica Louzon (Neon Dystopia, 2026).
2025 has been a good year for SF in translation, with 88 novels and collections and 30 short stories from over two dozen unique languages and countries. See the charts below for a more in-depth look at the numbers. long-form SFT Korea, Japan – 10 (11.4%)Argentina – 7 (8.6)China- 5 (5.7%) Spanish -16 (18.2%)Korean, Japanese
This website began with a list. Back in 2014, when I began reviewing SFT for John DeNardo’s SF Signal, I realized that there were more works of genre in translation than I had ever realized. Being me, I started a list. Lists, I suppose, are a way of bringing order to the world and to
