“How Does One Person Kill a Mountain?” by Shi Heiyao, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld, October 1)

Starblood by Nathalie Charles Henneberg, translated from the French by William Oarlock (Black Coat Press, October 1).

Starblood is the colorful tale of a parallel medieval Earth featuring elementals and astronauts vying for the love of a Salamander; and The Lost Fortress, set in 2400, is the story of a colony ship arriving at the haunted planet of Isis in Alpha Centauris. Combining classic French and Golden Age American SF reminiscent of Jack Williamson and Robert Heinlein, with “Old World” literature, sagas and epics, her writing precedes the “New Wave” of the 1960s and later mythopoetic space operas by Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, C.J. Cherryh, Philip Jose Farmer and Joan D. Vinge. 

Night of a Thousand Hells by Intan Paramaditha, translated from the Indonesian by Stephen Epstein and Tiffany Tsao (Europa Editions, October 6)

International literary sensation Intan Paramaditha returns with her most ambitious and haunting work to date. The novel opens with a devastating act: the youngest of three sisters becomes a suicide bomber. In the aftermath, her surviving siblings are forced to confront the violent, buried truths of their family history. Their search leads them to long-concealed secrets, and to the prophecies of their grandmother, whose shadowy wisdom has shaped their fates. Set across Indonesia, the United States, and Australia, the novel explores class divides, sisterhood, migration, shame, abandonment, and the politics of care—all through a ghostly, atmospheric lens that draws on Asian folktales and occult traditions.

Pan by Francesco Dimitri, translated from the Italian by Sophia McDougall (Tor Books, October 13)

Jim Butcher meets Claire North in this brutal modern Italian retelling of the story of Peter Pan, now in English for the first time.

Don’t Leave Her Alone by Desirée de Fez, translated from the Spanish (Spain) by Lizzie Davis (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, October 13)

Haunting, cinematic, and strikingly visceral, Don’t Leave Her Alone is an incisive exploration of motherhood that interrogates women’s struggle for autonomy and identity, and ultimately forces the question: What does it take to finally break free?

To Bewitch a Hunter by Luciano Lamberti, translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Frank Wynne (HarperVia, October 13)

An award-winning novel from Argentina that begins when an adopted woman is approached by someone claiming to know what happened to her real parents—an encounter that triggers a hallucinatory odyssey into the dark years of dictatorship and a family history of disappearances and blood sacrifice.

Horde of the Counterwind by Alain Damasio, translated from the French by Alexander Dickow (Abrams Press, October 13)

France’s defining fantasy/science fiction odyssey of the 21st century, the basis of the award-winning video game Expedition 33 and now published in English for the first time, celebrates twenty-three brave warriors of the wind.

The Man with Many Names by Georgi Gospodinov, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel (Liveright, October 13)

Written over three decades, The Man with Many Names gathers the best of renowned author Georgi Gospodinov’s short fiction into a single new volume. Exhibiting the author at his most playful and profound, the collection captures the peculiarities of existence across forty-one tales set in and around his beloved Bulgaria: In “A Second Story,” strangers pass their time on a train through the Balkans telling stories only to be lost in translation; in “The Late Gift,” an unhoused man becomes convinced he’s on television one frigid New Year’s Eve; and in “Blind Vaysha,” a sightless woman can see into the past and future–one through each eye. Haunting these pages is a flaneur named Gaustine, a familiar trickster known to longtime Gospodinov fans.

Laplace’s Witch by Keigo Higashino, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Paul (Avocado House, October 13)

Two people die in hot spring towns in different parts of Japan from hydrogen sulfide poisoning. Investigating the case is geochemist Shusuke Aoe, who witnessed the same mysterious girl, Madoka, at both crime scenes … A sci-fi mystery that challenges established norms of the genre, written by acclaimed author Keigo Higashino.

Paradise Burns by Pol Guasch, translated from the Catalan (Spain) by Mara Faye Lethem (FSG, October 20)

When Rita and Líton meet at a party, they quickly form a bond that will indelibly shape their lives. Theirs is not an easy world: most wildlife is extinct and the earth is tormented by drought and floods; the last vestiges of natural life are kept under lock and key in a mysterious greenhouse a day’s travel away. Like the other young men of the Service, Líton is frequently enlisted to put out the seemingly never-ending fires that tear through the valley; Rita lives perched on a hill in the Colony, where other men, including her father, empty an almost barren mine. Yet their bond grounds them. They navigate the love affairs, setbacks, and thwarted idealism of their twenties together, finding in each other a vital reprieve for their disillusionment—that is, until Líton, like other gay men, falls deathly sick.

Thousands of Eyes by Maximiliano Barrientos, translated from the Spanish (Bolivia) by Thomas Bunstead (Counterpoint, October 27)

Mad Max meets J.G. Ballard in this gonzo, maximalist, high-octane speculative horror novel set against a post-apocalyptic Bolivia in thrall to a speed-worshiping cult.