Herbert W. Franke at SF Ruminations
Here’s my joint SFT review with Joachim Boaz over at Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations, this time on Herbert W. Franke’s “Slum” (1970, tr. 1973). Check it out here!
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SFT in Strange Horizons
Check out my end-of-year review of some of my favorite SFT in the latest issue of Strange Horizons here.
Review: Lame Fate/Ugly Swans by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
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
Out This Month: January
“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
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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,
SFT: Year in Review 2025
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
Essay: Lists & Spreadsheets
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
Out This Month: December
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
Review: Vampiric: Tales of Blood and Roses from Japan
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
Izumi Suzuki at SF Ruminations
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!
