Polish author Jacek Dukaj speaks with Bloomsbury Publishing about “Ice: a Trans-Siberian odyssey through political, criminal, scientific, philosophical and amorous intrigues, and into an endless winter to confront something utterly alien.” Check it out here.
For over twenty years (2002-2025), Kurodahan Press brought Anglophone readers a wealth of fascinating fiction and nonfiction from and about Japan. A major focus of this press was speculative fiction, resulting in a number of works in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, weird, uncanny, and horror being translated into and published in English. Kurodahan
Author, editor, and translator Marian Womack has put together a list of horror in translation for Reactor. Check it out!
Italian SF author Clelia Farris’s novel Veg-humans is out in English (translated by yours truly): On an island in the Mediterranean sea, Astarte, an agricultural cooperative of young farmers, is facing the consequences of drought. Despite the World Climate Organization helping populations to move north to the Arctic lands – the only arable lands –
Anita Moskát and translator Austin Wagner talk about Moskát’s story “Liecraft,” included in the latest issue of Apex Magazine.
Alex Przybyla on “Stanislaw Lem’s Greatest Character: An Introduction to Ijon Tichy” (Reactor). For more on Stanislaw Lem and Polish SFT, go here.
On LitHub, translator Yuki Tejima talks about translating Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon (Scribner) into English.
Check out Joachim Boaz’s interview with Czech diplomat, author, editor, and translator Jaroslav Olša, Jr. on Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations. Olša discusses his book about Czech/American science fiction author Miles (Miroslav) J. Breuer, a regular in the pages of Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing.
Strange Horizons is focusing on SF in translation this week, with a podcast episode of Critical Friends featuring Dan Hartland, Will McMahon, and myself; as well five SFT reviews. Check it out!
SF in Translation from Small American Publishers of International Literature since 2020 Speculative fiction in translation comes to us each year from a wide array of publishers, many of which are small presses or imprints of larger publishing houses. Eight of these publishers, based in the US and committed to bringing out multiple works of
