Tor Post: Six SFF Series in Translation
Monster hunters, galactic empires, Nordic princesses, and more: here are six SFF series in translation that you need to check out!
Author Archives: Rachel Cordasco
Speculative Fiction in Translation: Japan
Luckily for us English-language readers, a lot of Japanese speculative fiction has been translated (beyond Haruki Murakami), and it is extraordinary in its depth and breadth. Thanks to many talented translators and to presses like Haikasoru, Kurodahan, Vertical, and others, we can dive into military space-opera epics like Yoshiki Tanaka’s Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Upcoming Review: Nexhuman by Francesco Verso, translated by Sally McCorry
Frankenstein meets classic cyberpunk in this work of contemporary Italian science fiction by Francesco Verso. Check out my review in an upcoming issue of Strange Horizons.
Upcoming Review: Radiant Terminus by Antoine Volodine, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
A nightmarish, surreal piece of speculative fiction, Radiant Terminus explores the porous boundaries between dreams and reality, and between hope and fanaticism. Check out my review in the upcoming (March) issue of World Literature Today.
SF To Be Translated
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
Tor Post: Roundtable on Speculative Fiction in Translation
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.”
Out This Month: January
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
SFT 2016 Stats
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,
BTBA Post: Polar Bears and Cyborg Turtles: Some Non-Human Narrative Perspectives
(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.
