SFT in Strange Horizons
Check out my end-of-year review of some of my favorite SFT in the latest issue of Strange Horizons here.
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SFT: Year in Review 2025
2025 has been a good year for SF in translation, with 88 novels and collections and 30 short stories from over two dozen unique languages and countries. See the charts below for a more in-depth look at the numbers. long-form SFT Korea, Japan – 10 (11.4%)Argentina – 7 (8.6)China- 5 (5.7%) Spanish -16 (18.2%)Korean, Japanese
Ginway and Muñoz-Mantas Talk about Translating The Voice of Blood
M. Elizabeth (Libby) Ginway and Enrique Muñoz-Mantas talk with the University of Tampa Press about the collection of vampire stories by Mexican author Gabriela Rábago Palafox, gothic fiction by Latin American women writers, and translation. Check it out here.
Symposium on Turkish SF Literature
Check out the SFRA’s symposium on Turkish SF literature in their latest issue.
Jacek Dukaj on his latest novel ICE
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.
Kurodahan Press
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
SFT Horror List on Reactor
Author, editor, and translator Marian Womack has put together a list of horror in translation for Reactor. Check it out!
Clelia Farris’s VEG-HUMANS out in English Translation
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 Austin Wagner talk about “Liecraft” (Apex Magazine)
Anita Moskát and translator Austin Wagner talk about Moskát’s story “Liecraft,” included in the latest issue of Apex Magazine.
Stanislaw Lem at Reactor
Alex Przybyla on “Stanislaw Lem’s Greatest Character: An Introduction to Ijon Tichy” (Reactor). For more on Stanislaw Lem and Polish SFT, go here.
