A prolific sf author in his own right, Brian Stableford has also translated an astonishingly large number of works of early French speculative fiction for Black Coat Press. And when I say “astonishingly large,” I mean there are so many stories and novels that I’m just going to list a selection here. He’s also
World Literature Today dedicated its May 2018 issue to speculative fiction from around the world. It includes fiction by Pierrette Fleutiaux (tr Edward Gauvin), Anne Richter (tr Edward Gauvin), Angélica Gorodischer (tr Amalia Gladhart), and Rodrigo Fresán (tr Cecilia Weddell), as well as a “Translator’s Note” by Edward Gauvin.
Over at Weird Fiction Review, David Davis interviews Japanese speculative fiction author Dempow Torishima, whose work of biohorror, Sisyphean, was translated by Daniel Huddleston and came out earlier this year from Haikasoru. You can also check out my review of this powerful, brilliant novel here.
translated by Austin Woerner Small Beer Press April 3, 2018 400 pages grab a copy Read an excerpt here Read an interview with the translator here The Invisible Valley is one of those hard-to-classify novels that resists labels precisely because it’s exploring, through the story it tells, what terms like “fantasy,” “reality,” and “magic” even
Episode 3 of the SF in Translation podcast is up! Give it a listen. You can find a list of every episode here.
translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Will Vanderhyden Open Letter Books May 19, 2018 266 pages grab a copy ** warning: here be spoilers** I’ve got to be honest with you. I seriously don’t know how I’m going to write any kind of coherent review of Fresán’s The Bottom of the Sky, a novel
The Best Translated Book Award longlists came out today, and there are FOUR SFT titles on the fiction list!! Radiant Terminus by Antoine Volodine, translated from the French by Jeffery Zuckerman (France, Open Letter) Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (Argentina, Riverhead)
Check out The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast’s Episode 2 on the work of Soviet-era speculative author Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky here.
You can grab some great collections at Eurocons and Worldcons! Here are some that have been distributed (and then published) over the last few years. If you know of others, please let me know in the comments or at rachel@sfintranslation.com Kontakt: An Anthology of Croatian SF, edited by Darko Macan and Tatjana Jambrišak
Locus Magazine has included a list of SFT out in 2017 in its Features section- check it out!
