Category Archives: review
Review: Fast Forward Japan by Juza Unno
translated by J. D. Wisgo Arigatai Books June 21, 2021 162 pages grab a copy here or or through your local independent bookstore or library Read more about Juza Unno and the translation of these stories here. “Four Dimensional Man”“The World in One Thousand Years”“The Theory of Planetary Colonization”“Mysterious Spatial Rift”“The Living Intestine”“The Last Broadcast”“Adventures
Review: Futurespotting by Francesco Verso
various translators Future Fiction March 21, 2021 194 pages grab a copy “Fernando Morales, This is Your Death!” tr. Sally McCorry“Midsummer Future,” tr. Sally McCorry“Italianskij Tikaj Tikaj,” tr. Tom Crosshill“90 Cents,” tr. Sally McCorry“Flush,” tr. Georgia Emma Gili“The Green Ship,” tr. Michael Colbert“Celestial Formatting,” tr. Georgia Emma Gili“The Assassin’s Level,” tr. Sally McCorry“Awakenings,” tr. Sarah
Review: Nova Hellas: Stories from Future Greece
edited by Francesca T. Barbini and Francesco Verso Luna Press Publishing March 30, 2021 164 pages grab a copy here or or through your local independent bookstore or library * all stories originally written in Greek were translated by Dimitra Nikolaidou and Vaya Pseftaki, except for the last story, which was translated by Stephanie Polakis
Review: ФантАstika: Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction
various translators Human Library Foundation Introduction by Kalin M. Nenov 2020 510 pages grad a copy here Read more about this remarkable anthology of Bulgarian speculative stories and art here. The blurb: “ФантАstika: Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction collects short fiction and novel excerpts originally written between 1978 and 2020 by twenty-four Bulgarian authors. Most
Review: BUG by Giacomo Sartori
translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall Restless Books February 2, 2021 320 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore So many things happen simultaneously in Bug that, with any other writer, this kind of chaos would veer completely out of control (like a rapidly-developing AI consciousness, perhaps?). Sartori, though, juggles
Daniel’s Reviews: Rabbit Island by Elvira Navarro
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. Daniel reads
Clelia Farris’s Creative Surgery
Award-winning Italian author Clelia Farris’s collection, Creative Surgery (translated from the Italian by myself and Jennifer Delare) came out a few months ago from Rosarium Publishing and is getting some much-deserved attention (I know, I’m biased! But really, her work is fantastic). Here are links to four reviews: Publishers Weekly starred
Daniel’s Reviews: Whiskey Tales & Cruise of Shadows by Jean Ray
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. Daniel reads
