The latest issue of Science Fiction Studies includes a special section on Liu Cixin and science fiction in China– check it out! “China Turns Outward: On the Literary Significance of Liu Cixin’s Science Fiction” by Li Guangyi and Nathaniel Isaacson “Liu Cixin’s THREE-BODY TRILOGY and the Status of Science Fiction in Contemporary
Yesterday, Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld Magazine announced that the magazine has received a grant from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea to publish nine works of Korean science fiction in translation during 2019. Exciting times!!
Each month, Daniel Haeusser reviews short works of SFT that appear both online and in print. He is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Canisius College, where he teaches microbiology and leads student research projects with bacteria and bacteriophage. He’s also an associate blogger with the American Society for Microbiology’s popular Small Things Considered.
translated by Jim Hubbert Haikasoru November 16, 2010 350 pages grab a copy I’m just going to say it: I love this book. I love that it functions both as a collection of linked stories and as a novel. Yes, each section/story focuses on a different point in time (between 2123 and 2171), a different
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
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
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
On Locusmag.com, you can find the complete list of SFT (long- and short-form) from 2018 (including pie charts!).
I wrote about horror in translation for World Literature Today‘s “What to Read Now” feature: check it out! –
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,
