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LoGH on Locus

By Rachel CordascoMarch 10, 2020reviewDaniel Huddleston, Haikasoru, Japan, Japanese, Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, Matt Treyvaud, Tyran Grillo, Yoshiki Tanaka

Check out my essay on the entire Legend of the Galactic Heroes series for the Locus Roundtable here.

Review: Red Dust by Yoss

By Rachel CordascoFebruary 17, 2020reviewCuba, Restless Books, Spanish, Yoss

translated by David Frye Restless Books July 7, 2020 208 pages grab a copy A wild ride from the first page, Red Dust (Yoss’s latest novel in English) is a highly-entertaining space opera indebted to classic detective fiction. It also has an unusual protagonist in the form of Raymond, a positronic robot detective who is tasked

Review: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Volume 10: Sunset By Yoshiki Tanaka

By Rachel CordascoDecember 16, 2019reviewHaikasoru, Japan, Japanese, Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, Matt Treyvaud, Yoshiki Tanaka

translated by Matt Treyvaud Haikasoru November 19, 2019 224 pages grab a copy * here be spoilers Haikasoru has done it. They’ve published all ten books in Yoshiki Tanaka’s Legend of the Galactic Heroes series in English. Sadly, this was also one of Haikasoru’s last publications, but we can take heart from the fact that

New Issue of the SFRA Review

By Rachel CordascoNovember 24, 2019news, reviewSFRA Review

Check out the latest SFRA Review, which includes my regular column on the “SF in Translation Universe,” Mengtian Sun’s essay “Liu Cixin’s Alien Encounter SF as Postcolonial Fantasy,” Cait Coker’s review of Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction, and my review of Lingua Cosmica.

Review: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Volume 9: Upheaval By Yoshiki Tanaka

By Rachel CordascoOctober 20, 2019reviewHaikasoru, Japan, Japanese, Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, Matt Treyvaud, Yoshiki Tanaka

translated by Matt Treyvaud Haikasoru July 16, 2019 224 pages grab a copy * here be spoilers Aaaaand I still can’t believe that Yang Wen-li is dead. But moving on. Volume 9 picks up with Julian Mintz and his small community on Iserlohn also trying to move forward and establish their position in relation to

Review: The Dreamed Part by Rodrigo Fresán

By Rachel CordascoOctober 17, 2019reviewArgentina, Open Letter Books, Rodrigo Fresán, Spanish, Will Vanderhyden

translated by Will Vanderhyden Open Letter Books November 12, 2019 550 pages grab a copy Two years ago, I reviewed Fresán’s novel The Invented Part, and even though I somehow managed to convey what I believed the book was about and how it was structured, I’m still, even now, trying to process it. And now

Reviews of Short Fiction: September Edition

By Rachel CordascoOctober 7, 2019reviewAlberto Chimal, Alex Shvartsman, Alexander Bachilo, Anton Hur, Bella Han, Bora Chung, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld Magazine, Davide Camparsi, Future Science Fiction Digest, Gordon Jones, Italian, Italy, Japan, Japanese, Ji Yun, John Yu Branscum, Korea, Korean, Liliana Bodoc, Mexico, Michael Colbert, Naoko Awa, Nathan Faries, Oskar Källner, Russia, Russian, Samovar Magazine, Spanish, Sweden, Swedish, Toshiya Kamei, Wanxiang Fengnian, Yi Izzy Yu

Each month, Daniel Haeusser reviews short works of SFT that appear both online and in print. He is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Canisius College, where he teaches microbiology and leads student research projects with bacteria and bacteriophage. He’s also an associate blogger with the American Society for Microbiology’s popular Small Things Considered.