Kōbō Abe at SF Ruminations
I joined Joachim Boaz over at Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations for a double-review of Kōbō Abe’s 1950 (tr. 1989) short story “The Flood.” Check it out here!
Monthly Archives: March 2024
Review: Behind the Red Mist by Ho Anh Thai
translated by Nguyen Qui Duc, Regina Abrami, Bac Hoai Tran, Phan Thanh Hao, and Dana Sachs Curbstone Press, 1998 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library speculative stories included: “The Goat Meat Special” (tr. Ho Anh Thai and Wayne Karlin) “The Man Who Believed in Fairy Tales” (tr. Ho Anh
Review: The Cemetery of Chua Village and Other Stories by Doan Le
translated by Rosemary Nguyen, Duong Tuong, and Wayne Karlin Curbstone Press, 2005 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library speculative stories included: “The Cemetery of Chua Village” (tr. Rosemary Nguyen) “Achieving Flyhood” (tr. Rosemary Nguyen) “The Venus of Chua Village” (tr. Rosemary Nguyen) “The Clone” (tr. Duong Tuong with Wayne
Vietnamese SFT
I’ve been interested in finding some Vietnamese SFT and I finally did! See below for two collections, and please let me know if there are more! The Cemetery of Chua Village and Other Stories by Doan Le, translated by Rosemary Nguyen, Wayne Karlin and Tuong Doung (Curbstone Books, 2005). “This seventh volume in the “Voices
Review: The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction
edited and translated by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay MIT Press (part of the Radium Age Book Series), 2024 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Contents: The Inhumans (Amanushik Manush) (1935) by Hemendrakumar Roy “Voyage to Venus” (“Shukra Bhraman”) (1895) by Jagadananda Ray “The Mystery of the Giant” (“Danab Rahassya”) (1931) by
Out This Month: March
“One Flew Over the Songhua River” by Qi Ran, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld, March 1) Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories, ed. Two Lines Press, various translators (Two Lines Press, March 12) In ten chilling stories from this ensemble cast of contemporary Latin American writers, horror infiltrates
