Arkady Strugatsky at SF Ruminations
Here’s my joint-SFT review with Joachim Boaz over at Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations, this time on Arkady Strugatsky’s “Wanderers and Travellers” (1963, trans. 1966). Check it out here!
Review: On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle
translated by Barbara Haveland original publication (in Danish): 2020 first English edition: 2024, New Directions 185 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Review of Book I We left Tara Selter at the end of Book I attempting to figure out how to move forward, despite being trapped in
Out This Month: August
“Sea of Fertility” by Bella Han, translated from the Chinese by the author (Clarkesworld, August 1) Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa (NYRB, August 5) Forty miles north of Rome, near the village of Bomarzo, Pier Francesco Orsini created a park of monstrous statuary in which the nightmares of
Review: On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle
translated by Barbara Haveland original publication (in Danish): 2020 first English edition: 2024, New Directions 160 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature, On the Calculation of Volume I is a book in which so much, and so little,
Jaroslav Olša, Jr. at SF Ruminations
Check out Joachim Boaz’s interview with Czech diplomat, author, editor, and translator Jaroslav Olša, Jr. on Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations. Olša discusses his book about Czech/American science fiction author Miles (Miroslav) J. Breuer, a regular in the pages of Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing.
SFT Week at Strange Horizons
Strange Horizons is focusing on SF in translation this week, with a podcast episode of Critical Friends featuring Dan Hartland, Will McMahon, and myself; as well five SFT reviews. Check it out!
Out This Month: July
“Serpent Carriers” by K.A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Clarkesworld, July 1) “Cephalomorphs” by Luis Carlos Barragán Castro, translated from the Spanish (Colombia) by isaac dwyer (Asymptote, July) “Anthropocene” by Carolina Brown, translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Jessica Powell (Asymptote, July) Into the Sun by C. F. Ramuz, translated from the
Review: Red Sword by Bora Chung
Check out my review of Bora Chung’s first novel in English, translated by Anton Hur, in the latest issue of World Literature Today. “Based on the story of seventeenth-century Korean soldiers fighting against Russia on behalf of the Qing dynasty, Red Sword is a story about war, though here it is the far future, where
Review: The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo
translated by Lola Rogers original publication (in Finnish): 2013 first English edition: 2016, Black Cat 304 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library (warning: spoilers in the last two paragraphs) Over a decade ago, Johanna Sinisalo’s name was everywhere in the Anglophone sf world. The so-called “Queen of Finnish
Review: School of Shards by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
Check out my review of Marina and Sergey Dyachenko’s final installment in the Vita Nostra trilogy–School of Shards–translated by Julia Meitov Hersey, in the latest issue of Words Without Borders.
