“The Scent of Memory” by Zhao Haihong, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Clarkesworld, May 1) “The Girl Who Stole Life” by Zhou Wen, translated from the Chinese by Xueting C. Ni (Asimov’s, May/June) Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Mónica Ojeda, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker (Coffee
“The Tiger in the Room” by Moon Young Park, translated from the Korean by Paige Aniyah Morris (Samovar, April 27) The Witch by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French (France) by Jordan Stump (Vintage, April 7) Equal parts dreamlike and disquieting, The Witch tells a tale as old as time, with a dark twist: Without
“Those Who Left History” by Wanxiang Fengnian, translated from the Chinese by Stella Jiayue Zhu (Clarkesworld, March 1) “Antarctic Radio” by Gu Shi, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Asimov’s, March/April) City Like Water by Dorothy Tse, translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce (Graywolf Press, March 3) Your city is gone, as if
“Damnatio Memoriae” by I. A. Galdames translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Monica Louzon (Neon Dystopia) “A Letter from Captain Robert Walton to Joseph Smith, Care of John Taylor” by R. de la Lanza, translated from the Spanish (Mexico) by Ryan Fairchild and D.A. Cooper (Further Light #1) With the Heart of a Ghost by
“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
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
“Threehearts and Me” by Clelia Farris, translated from the Italian by Rachel Cordasco (Bourbon Penn, November 1) “Trees at Night” by Ramiro Sanchiz, translated from the Spanish by Sue Burke (Clarkesworld, November 1) Ice by Jacek Dukaj, translated from the Polish by Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus, November 6) A Trans-Siberian odyssey through political, criminal,
“Giant Grandmother” by Liu Maijia, translated from the Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks (Clarkesworld, October 1) Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Fairwood Press, October 1) The world is not how we perceive it. A blizzard may be the fury of a whale god. Intelligent
Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan, translated from the Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood (S&S/Summit Books, September 2) Welcome to the Japan of tomorrow. Here, the practice of radical sympathy toward criminals has become normalized. The incarcerated are considered victims influenced by their environments to commit crime and are labeled accordingly as Homo miserabilis. A grand,
“Sea of Fertility” by Bella Han, translated from the Chinese by the author (Clarkesworld, August 1) Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa (NYRB, August 5) Forty miles north of Rome, near the village of Bomarzo, Pier Francesco Orsini created a park of monstrous statuary in which the nightmares of
