Author Archives: Rachel Cordasco

Out This Month: February

SHORT STORIES “The Butcher of New Tasmania” by Suo Hefu, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld Magazine, February 1).           “Art” by Alberto Chimal, translated from the Spanish by David Bowles, The Dark, February.           “Everyone Sleeps at Night” by Anderson Fonseca, translated from the

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New Translation Imprint: Clarkesworld Books

Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld Magazine has launched a Kickstarter campaign to promote Clarkesworld Books “as a translation-focused imprint of Wyrm Publishing… [which] will focus on the translation and publication of science fiction novellas, anthologies, and short story collections from all over the world.” The focus of this Kickstarter campaign is to raise money to produce

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Review: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Volume 8: Desolation by Yoshiki Tanaka

translated by Matt Treyvaud Haikasoru December 18, 2018 224 pages grab a copy * here be spoilers! It got real in Desolation. To everyone reading the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series in English, we’re in the home stretch: just two more books left, in which Tanaka wraps up this galaxy-spanning space opera about human

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SFT 2018 Stats

SFT 2018 Stats       Standalone Short SFT total: 67               Chinese- 21 (31.3%) published in Apex, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Future Science Fiction Digest, Lightspeed, MIT Technology Review, New Yorker, Samovar Spanish- 16 (23.9%) (Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela) published in Analog, Big Echo, Cascadia Subduction Zone,

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Out This Month: January

SHORT STORIES “And the Wind Passes Dancing…” by Massimo Soumaré, translated from Italian by Toshiya Kamei (Unreal Magazine, January 1).     “The Talus of Madame Liken” by Asja Bakić, translated from the Croatian by Jennifer Zoble (World Literature Today, January)         “The Eternal Idol” by Amélie Olaiz, translated from the Japanese

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Zoran Živković

Cadmus Press is publishing the “Zoran Živković Collection,” showcasing the surrealistic and Borgesian work of the internationally-known Serbian author. Each cover is beautifully imagined by artist Youchan Ito.         translated by Alice Copple-Tošić, 2016           translated by Alice Copple-Tošić and Vik Tošić, 2016 (includes The Compendium of the

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Élisabeth Vonarburg

Élisabeth Vonarburg is a French-born Canadian teacher, editor, critic and author. She was fiction editor 1979-1990 and editor 1983-1985 of Solaris, the world’s oldest-established French-language sf magazine. Here’s a list of Vonarburg’s speculative fiction novels and collections available in English.         The Silent City (Silent City #1)(Denoel, 1981) novel translated by Jane

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Jules Verne

Here’s a list of speculative fiction by Jules Verne, along with each text’s first English edition and any recent major new editions. (I’m not including his adventure novels). Also see “Jules Verne’s English Translations” by Arthur B. Evans, Science Fiction Studies XXXII:1 #95 (March 2005): 80-104         Journey to the Center of

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