I’ve added a new page to this site that I’m calling “To Be Translated”: it’s a list of works of speculative fiction that have yet to be translated into English. Hopefully this list will lead to more translations! Let me know what I should add 🙂 https://www.sfintranslation.com/?page_id=1561
I had the privilege of speaking with Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld Magazine), Cristina Jurado (SuperSonic), Sarah Dodd (Samovar), Cheryl Morgan (Wizard’s Tower Press), Julien Wacquez (Blind Spot Magazine), and Marian Womack (Nevsky Books) about the current state of speculative fiction in translation. Read the roundtable here: “Roundtable on Speculative Fiction in Translation: Past, Present, Future.”
The Mountains of Parnassus by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Stanley Bill (Yale University Press, January 10) “Written in the 1970s and published posthumously in Polish in 2012, Milosz’s deliberately unfinished novel is set in a dystopian future where hierarchy, patriarchy, and religion no longer exist. Echoing the structure of The Captive Mind and written in
SHORT-FORM FICTION Stories in magazines/webzines total: 73 Chinese- 20 (27.4%) (China) published in: Clarkesworld, SQ Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Pathlight, Tor.com, Paper Republic Spanish- 14 (19.2%) (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Spain) published in The Short Story Project, Persistent Visions Magazine, Words Without Borders, Weird Fiction Review, SuperSonic, Strange Horizons,
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(this piece was first published on the Three Percent website on 12/12/16 and was written for the Best Translated Book Award series of posts) I’ve only come across two books this year that take as their main narrator(s) a non-human creature: Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky; and Mr.
2016 stats Standalone Short SFT total: 52 Chinese- 20 (38.5%) published in Tales of Our Time, Clarkesworld, SQ Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Pathlight, Tor.com, Paper Republic Spanish- 12 (23.1%) (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Spain) published in The Short Story Project, Persistent Visions, Words Without Borders,
So many great sf novels and stories in translation were published in 2016, involving zombies, cyborg turtles, hostile aliens, and much more. But what if you’re really into stories about serious intergalactic travel? Here, I put together a list for you. Some of these stories happen to include space travel, while others revolve around it.
(first posted on Tor.com 12/7/16) (for a full- and constantly-updated- list, see “Out in 2017”) While 2016 might have been a terrible year in many ways, it was a great year for speculative fiction in translation, and 2017 is on track to be even better! With books (so far) from Italy, France, China, Poland,
This was originally posted on Science Fiction Ruminations 11/30/16 and focuses on three stories by French women writers: “The Devil’s Goddaughter” (1960) by Suzanne Malaval, “Moon-Fishers” (1959) by Nathalie Henneberg, and “The Chain of Love” (1955) by Catherine Cliff. Three Stories from 13 French Science-Fiction Stories, edited and translated by Damon Knight (Bantam Books, 1965, 165
