NOVELS Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated from the Dutch by Moshe Gilula (Tor Nightfire, February 8) Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick’s own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages
This is part of a series on French author Pierre Boulle. Julliard, 1971 translated by Patricia Wolf Vanguard Press, 1973 213 pages If Desperate Games was a person, it would be that kid at school who always kept to himself and seemed perfectly happy with that, who did his own thing without even
Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) was a French author who wrote several science fiction novels, including Planet of the Apes. Trained as an electrical engineer, Boulle spent eight years in Malaysia as a planter and soldier. His experience as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore during World War II inspired his famous novel
I reviewed Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel I am the Tiger, translated by Marlaine Delargy, for Strange Horizons. Here’s an excerpt from the review: Perhaps that’s because John Ajvide Lindqvist was a magician before he was a writer, a line of work he details in I Always Find You, the book that precedes I
Kalin Stacey is a writer, educator, and activist based in Toronto, Canada. He is currently a student of translation studies at Glendon College, a voracious reader of SFF, and an aspiring translator of speculative fiction. translated from the Korean by Sophie Bowman & Sung Ryu Harper Voyager April 6, 2021 336 pages grab a
Marlaine Delargy grew up in Manchester, England; studied in Aberystwyth, Wales; worked in Sweden and Finland; and taught in Welshpool in Powys and Bewdley in Worcestershire until 2004. She now lives in rural Shropshire with the obligatory collection of spoiled cats. Rachel Cordasco: You have translated many Swedish texts, the majority
SHORT STORIES “No One at the Wild Dock” by Gu Shi, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Clarkesworld, January 1) “Devour Me” by Yuki Fuwa, translated from the Japanese by (World Literature Today, January) “City Lights” by Yilun Fan, translated from
This year, I tried something different. Instead of just looking at how many short stories were published in magazines/webzines, and then grouping collections with novels and anthologies (while not pulling out the separate short stories in those collections), I decided to lay out how many short stories were published in zines and how many were
JANUARY “The Tale of Ak and Humanity” by Yefim Zozulya, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Tor.com). “Sulphur” by Dmitry Glukhovsky, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz (Asymptote). “Lamia” by Cristina Jurado, translated from the Spanish by Monica Louzon (Apex). “City Lights” by Yilun Fan, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG a whole TRILOGY by Israeli SF author Shimon Adaf is coming out in 2022 in English!! Thank you to translator Yardenne Greenspan and to Picador for making this happen! So while you wait, go read some Shimon Adaf that’s already in English: here, Sunburnt Faces, and “They Had to Move” (Zion’s Fiction).
