translated by Jacob Homel Talonbooks September 6, 2016 200 pages A post-apocalyptic road novel based loosely on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, Running on Fumes follows an unnamed narrator on a journey to reconnect with his father nearly five thousand miles away. The catalyst for this journey (through both a desolate landscape and
translated by Jamey Gambrell New York Review Books April 17, 2007 320 pages The Slynx, Tolstaya’s first novel after two collections of short stories, is a heady mix of dystopian dreariness and absurd hilarity. Set two hundred years in the future, after some kind of nuclear disaster, the novel follows the lives of those surviving
“The Person Who Saw Cetus” by Tang Fei, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Clarkesworld Magazine, May 1). Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre, translated from the French by Kaiama L. Glover (Akashic Books, May 2) “Hadriana in All My Dreams, winner of the prestigious Prix Renaudot,
Futuristica, Volume II (from Metasagas Press) is available now, and includes the story “Iron Goddess of Compassion” by Olha Chyhyrynska, translated by Anatoly Belilovsky. Check it out!
Your weekly dose of #SFinTranslation links: “An Image of Africa From the Sky: Jules Verne’s ‘Five Weeks in a Balloon’”- a review by John Rieder on LARB “An Isle of Amour and the Human Paradise: The Futuristic Fiction of Nicolas Ségur” by Brian Stableford on The New York Review of Science Fiction “World Weaver Press
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has an impressive history of publishing speculative fiction in translation. Between 1953 and 2017, they have featured 46 such works (noveletes, novellas, short stories). Here is the list from 1953 through 1998. Below, I’ve listed stories published since 1999: “The Carpetmaker’s Son” by Andreas Eschbach, translated by Doryl
Strange Horizons hosted a roundtable on Iraq + 100 (ed. Hassan Blasim) and Arabic sci-fi in general: read it here.
translated by Margalit Rodgers and Anthony Berris PS Publishing November 1, 2013 470 pages As many reviews of this book will tell you, Sunburnt Faces is not a fantasy so much as it is a novel about fantasy. The concept of “Wonderland,” children’s books about fairies and magical places, and, above all, revelation: these are
Anne Charnock hosts Cristina Jurado and several other major figures in Spanish sci-fi, fantasy, and horror to talk about the state of the genre. Read it here.
Over at Tor.com, you can read my post on an alternate Hugo Awards finalist list that includes some fabulous speculative fiction in translation from 2016. Enjoy!
