In my quest to find the origins of interest in SF in translation in the Anglophone world, I started reading SF criticism from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Eventually, I found myself reading James Blish’s More Issues at Hand: Critical Studies in Contemporary Science Fiction (1970), which then directed me to Damon Knight (translator, by
“The Scent of Memory” by Zhao Haihong, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Clarkesworld, May 1) “The Girl Who Stole Life” by Zhou Wen, translated from the Chinese by Xueting C. Ni (Asimov’s, May/June) Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Mónica Ojeda, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker (Coffee
translated from the Korean by Anton Hur original publication (in Korean): 2021 this edition: Vintage, 2023 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library I’ve been wanting to read Djuna’s stories and novels for a while now, since hard science fiction is my favorite subgenre, and I’ve read that Djuna’s work
translated from the Hebrew by Ira Moskowitz original publication (in Hebrew): 2011 this edition: St. Martin’s Press, 2018 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library “First of all, you are secret agents…Your existence is regular and continuous, like any human being…with the help of the tools you receive in this
Check out my review of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume IV, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell (New Directions), over in Ancillary Review of Books! You can read my reviews of previous books in the series here, here, and here.
Congratulations to Hungarian author Anita Moskát and translator Austin Wagner for winning the BSFA award for Best Translated Short Fiction with “Liecraft” (Apex Magazine, October 2025)! Read this excellent story here.
translated from the Korean by Anton Hur original publication (in Korean): 2019 first English edition: Saga Press, 2026 192 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Contents: “Symbiosis Theory” [originally published in English in Clarkesworld] “Spectrum” “If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light” [originally published in English
“The Tiger in the Room” by Moon Young Park, translated from the Korean by Paige Aniyah Morris (Samovar, April 27) The Witch by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French (France) by Jordan Stump (Vintage, April 7) Equal parts dreamlike and disquieting, The Witch tells a tale as old as time, with a dark twist: Without
Check out the Booker Prizes interview with Danish author Olga Ravn and translator Martin Aitken about Ravn’s The Wax Child here!
translated from the Korean, Arabic, Polish, Japanese, Uzbek, Icelandic, Swahili, and Thai Two Lines Press, 2026 216 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Contents: “A Swamp’s Love” by Cho Yeeun, tr from the Korean by Giulia Ratti “The Magic Bin” by Wajdi Al-Ahdal, tr from the Arabic by
