Kannada Bhoosnurmath, Rajashekar. “Venus is watching,” translated by ? (It Happened Tomorrow, 1993). [India] Havanur, Sanjay. “The Lift,” translated by the author (It Happened Tomorrow, 1993). Kikuyu Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. “The Hermit in the Helmet,” translated by the author (Nairobi Noir, 2020). [Kenya] —-. Wizard of the Crow, translated by the author (Pantheon, 2006). Korean
Italian Aldani, Lino. “Good Night, Sophie,” translated by L. K. Conrad (View from Another Shore: European Science Fiction, 1974). —-. “Red Rhombuses,” translated by Joe F. Randolph (Terra SF: The Year’s Best European SF, 1981 / InterNova 1: Unexplored Territories, 2005). Alvaro, Corrado. Man is Strong, translated by Frances Frenaye (Knopf, 1948). Ammaniti, Niccolò. Anna, translated by Jonathan Hunt (Cannongate, 2017). [read excerpt
Hebrew Adaf, Shimon. Sunburnt Faces, translated by Margalit Rodgers & Anthony Berris (PS Publishing, 2013). —-. “They Had to Move,” translated by Emanuel Lottem (Zion’s Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature, 2018). —-. “Ishmael,” translated by Leanne Raday (The Short Story Project, 2016). [read here] —-. “My Father’s Kingdom,” translated by Yardenne Greenspan (Tel
German Alpers, Hans Joachim and Ronald M. Hahn. “End of an Era,” translated by Joe F. Randolph (Terra SF: The Year’s Best European SF, 1981). Amery, Carl. “Just One Summer,” translated by Michael Mitchell (The Black Mirror and Other Stories, 2008). Armer, Karl-Michael. “Shoobeedoowah Across the Universe,” translated by Joe F. Randolph (Terra SF II,
French Allain, Marcel and Pierre Souvestre. The Death of Fantômas, translated by Sheryl Curtis (Black Coat Press, 2017). Andrevon, J. P. “Observation of Quadragnes,” translated by Frank Zero (View from Another Shore: European Science Fiction, 1974). Anet, Claude. The End of a World, translated by Jeffery E. Jeffery (Alfred A. Knopf, 1927). [Switzerland] Ange. “Three
Dholuo Ogot, Grace. The Strange Bride, translated by Okoth Okombo (Heinemann Kenya, 1989). Dutch Alderlieste, Cornelis. “Phantom Pain,” translated by ? (Cyäegha #6, 2012). Balder, Bo. “The Knack Bomb,” translated by the author (The Colored Lens, 2015). Belcampo. “The Great Happening,” translated by ? (European Tales of Terror, 1968). —-. “The Kruutntoone Plan,” translated by
Croatian Benini, Milena. “Bloodhound,” translated by the author (Kontakt: An Anthology of Croatian SF, 2014). Bogdanović, Danijel. “De Cadenza,” translated by the author (Kontakt: An Anthology of Croatian SF, 2014). Brbora, Katarina. “Avaleon and the Black Feather,” translated by the author (Kontakt: An Anthology of Croatian SF, 2014). Brozović, Danilo. “Fingers,” translated by the author
Catalan Besora, Max. The Fake Muse, translated by Mara Faye Lethem (Open Letter, 2025). Monzó, Quim. “My Brother,” translated by Mary Ann Newman (Words Without Borders, 2010). [read here] de Palol, Miquel. The Garden of Seven Twilights, translated by Adrian Nathan West (Dalkey Archive, 2023). de Pedrolo, Manuel. Typescript of the Second Origin, translated by
Afrikaans Meyer, Deon. Fever, translated by K. L. Seegers (Hodder & Stoughton, 2017). van Oordt, August. Sons of the Clouds, translated by the author (unknown, 1981). Steyn, Martin. “Kira,” translated by James D. Jenkins (The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol.1, 2020). Venter, Eben. Trencherman, translated by Luke Stubbs (Scribe, 2016). Arabic Abbas, Ibraheem.
translated by Christine Rose originally published in Poland: 1961 my edition: Seabury Press, 1973 188 pages Reading Stanislaw Lem In all of this, whether trusting and believing, if only for a moment, in the Mission and my instructions, or having my hopes dashed, even the hope of my own destruction–in all of this, I had
