translated by Maya Vinokour original publication (in Russian): 1989 (LF), 1972 (US) first English edition: 2020, Chicago Review Press grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library After reading the remarkable nested novel Lame Fate/Ugly Swans, I decided to make a list of the other Strugatsky works that I’ve read so
“Tomorrow’s Beautiful Dream” by Ju Chu, translated from the Chinese by Carmen Yiling Yan (Clarkesworld, January 1) “All My Birds“ by K.A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Asimov’s, January/February) Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo, translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Robin Myers (Algonquin Books, January 13) In the disorienting, devastatingly
JANUARY “Tomorrow’s Beautiful Dream” by Ju Chu, translated from the Chinese Carmen Yiling Yan (Clarkesworld, January 1). A “soulseller” who performs menial tasks while under the influence of a chip inserted into his brain finds that the chips are not saving factories money but actually refining the soulsellers themselves. “The Sandy Shore” by Goulc’han Kervella,
2025 has been a good year for SF in translation, with 88 novels and collections and 30 short stories from over two dozen unique languages and countries. See the charts below for a more in-depth look at the numbers. long-form SFT Korea, Japan – 10 (11.4%)Argentina – 7 (8.6)China- 5 (5.7%) Spanish -16 (18.2%)Korean, Japanese
This website began with a list. Back in 2014, when I began reviewing SFT for John DeNardo’s SF Signal, I realized that there were more works of genre in translation than I had ever realized. Being me, I started a list. Lists, I suppose, are a way of bringing order to the world and to
Artificial Truth by J. M. Lee, translated from the Korean by Sean Lin Halbert (Amazon Crossing, December 1) In the virtual city of Alegria, fantasies are made real, innumerable lifetimes are lived, and even death itself is a survivable experience. An escape from reality that changed the landscape of artificial intelligence, it is home to
Contents: “Introduction” by Raechel Dumas “A Cultural Dynasty of Beautiful Vampires: Japan’s acceptance, Modifications, and Adaptations of Vampires” by Shimokusu Masaya “Blue Lady” by Inoue Masahiko, tr. Neil Webb “Kingdom” by Asukabe Katsunori, tr. Laura Wolly Dominguez “The Stone Castle” by Kikuchi Hideyuki, tr. Jonathan Bunt “The One-Legged Woman” by Okamoto Kido, tr. Neil Webb
Here’s my joint-SFT review with Joachim Boaz over at Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations, this time on Izumi Suzuki’s “Terminal Boredom” (1984, trans. 2021). Check it out here!
M. Elizabeth (Libby) Ginway and Enrique Muñoz-Mantas talk with the University of Tampa Press about the collection of vampire stories by Mexican author Gabriela Rábago Palafox, gothic fiction by Latin American women writers, and translation. Check it out here.
translated by Sean Lin Halbert original publication (in Korean): 2024 first English edition: 2025, Amazon Crossing 220 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library “On March 13, 2016, at 5:44 p.m., at the Four Seasons Hotel, Seoul, history happened.” This statement opens the “Author’s Note” at the end of
