Welcome to the first annual SFT Poll, where you can vote for your favorite translated novels, short stories, anthologies & collections, translators, and publishers! Eligible for the 2018 poll are any translated texts published from January 1 – December 31, 2018. All possible answers are supplied- just click on your favorite in each category! The
The first issue of the new international SF magazine Future Science Fiction Digest, edited by Alex Shvartsman, is out now, and a fantastic issue it is. It includes fiction and non-fiction from China, the Ukraine, Nigeria, and Italy, and the US. Some pieces are available to read for free now. Thanks to UFO Publishing
Check out my latest “SF in Translation Universe” column in the SFRA Review (Number 326 Fall 2018). In it, I discuss the exciting SFT that we can expect over the course of the next few months (i.e. through January 2019). (Click here for a complete list of SFT Universe columns).
According to the Orbit blog, a new fantasy trilogy by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski is coming out in English in the next couple of years. “The Hussite Trilogy… tak[e]s place during the vibrantly depicted Hussite Wars. [It] begins with The Tower of Fools, and follows the epic adventures of Reinmar of Bielau, known as Reynevan,
It’s the inaugural year for the National Book Award in translated literature, and three (count ’em, three) works of SFT are on the longlist! Good luck to all of the authors and translators! Roque Larraquy, “Comemadre” Translated by Heather Cleary Coffee House Press Yoko Tawada, “The Emissary” Translated by
SFT-related news/reviews in the latest issue of Locus Magazine: Gary Wolfe reviews Zion’s Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature, eds. Sheldon Teitelbaum and Emanuel Lottem (Mandel Vilar Press) Ian Mond reviews Condomnauts by Yoss, translated from the Spanish by David Frye (Restless Books) Karen Burnham reviews “To Fly Like a Fallen Angel” by Qi
The latest issue of World Literature Today includes several reviews of recently-published and forthcoming SF in translation: Sean Guynes-Vishniac reviews Ball Lightning Elisa Cogbill-Seiders reviews Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World Rachel Cordasco reviews Zion’s Fiction: A Treasury of Israeli
In the latest SFRA Review (325, Summer 2018) you can find my inaugural “SF in Translation Universe” column. This and all subsequent (quarterly) columns will fill you in on what’s going on in the world of SFT publishing. Enjoy!
The Silent Garden: A Journal of Esoteric Fabulism, Volume 1, is available for pre-order here. This new publication is a “peer-reviewed journal of esoteric fabulism, edited and curated by the Silent Garden Collective, a professional group of editors, writers, and scholars interested in exploring those liminal borderlands where darkness bends. The Collective’s aim is to
If you’re going to Worldcon 76 this month, you’ll find several panels about world/translated SF. Check them out below! Chinese SF/F and its Fandom Translation & Communication of Chinese Science Fiction Intro to Korean Science Fiction for English Speakers Exploring a Wider Universe: Beyond the World of Anglophone SFF 1001 Years Later–What Happened to
