Sky City: New Science Fiction Stories by Danish Authors, ed. Carl-Eddy Skovgaard (Science Fiction Cirklen, 2011) Summaries of stories (from SF2 Concatenation review): “Sky City” by Manfred Christiansen. A woman wakes up in a tall skyscraper built by nanobots. Do they want something with her? This is the title story for the volume and sets
All this week, I’ll be highlighting the unexpectedly large number of Danish works of speculative fiction available in English! First up is Peter Adolphsen’s Machine (2006), translated by Charlotte Barslund (Harvill Secker, 2008). “The heart of a prehistoric horse 55 million years ago eventually transformed into oil, refined into gasoline, put in a car and
Speculative fiction in English translation from the Nordic countries has been available as far back as the turn of the twentieth century. Since the beginning of the twenty-first, though, we’ve gotten a lot more, especially horror from Sweden and fantasy from Finland. During the month of June, I’ll be spotlighting this little-known (in the Anglosphere)
I spoke with Francesco Verso of Future Fiction about all things SFT: Why should we care about alternative voices in fiction? What are the risks of the single voice, language, economy, culture, and point of view in relation to literature, art, politics, and the future? https://www.facebook.com/futurefiction/videos/176809693664283/
The Ladies of Horror Fiction wrote a piece about Women in Translation Month and offered us a great list, which includes Mariana Enriquez, Jenny Erpenbeck, and Anna Starobinets. Check it out!
During the 1970s and 80s, DAW Books published 21 works of SFT, including novels, collections, and anthologies. Below are the striking covers with links to their respective Goodreads pages. Enjoy! from the Dutch from the French
Tor Books has been publishing speculative fiction in translation for the past couple of decades. From Chinese to French SFT and everything in between, there’s a ton to love! from the Chinese from the Dutch
Did you know that some of the most well-known Anglophone speculative fiction authors have also translated SF into English ? I know! So cool! John Brunner- translation from the French The Overlords of War by Gérard Klein (Doubleday and Company, 1973). Sue Burke- translations from the Spanish “Light
I recently wrote a guest post for Fantasy Cafe all about women who write and translate contemporary international SF- check it out!
I wrote about horror in translation for World Literature Today‘s “What to Read Now” feature: check it out! –
