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
FICTION “The Wings of Earth” by Jiang Bo, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 1) “Fifth: You Shall Not Waste” by Piero Schiavo Campo, translated from Italian by Sarah Jane Webb (Akashic Books, April) “Taklamakan Misdelivery” by Bae Myung-hoon, translated from the Korean by
FICTION “Farewell, Adam” by Xiu Xinyu, translated from the Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks (Clarkesworld Magazine) “Deep Sea Fish” by Chi Hui, translated by Brian Bies (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) Typescript of the Second Origin by Manuel de Pedrolo, translated from the Catalan by Sara Martín
An article about the Three-Body Trilogy in China Daily USA
“The Lighthouse Girl” by Bao Shu, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld) “The Heaven-Moving Way” by Chi Hui, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Apex Magazine) Faces From the Past (The Queen’s Adept, Book 2) by by Rodolfo Martínez & Felicidad Martínez, translated by
In Samovar Magazine this month, you’ll find two interviews with Italian SF authors, and an essay on the SF conference in Chengdu by Francesco Verso: Interview: Francesco Verso Interview: Clelia Farris “A Report from the 4th International Science Fiction Conference in Chengdu” by Francesco Verso
“The Psychology Game” by Xia Jia, translated from the Chinese by Emily Jin and Ken Liu (Clarkesworld, October 1) “The Weirdo” by Davide Camparsi, translated by Michael Colbert (The Dark Magazine, October)
“Möbius Continuum” by Gu Shi, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Clarkesworld Magazine, September 1) I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy (riverrun, September 7) “A supernatural superthriller from the author of Let the Right One In. Molly wakes her mother
“A Man Out of Fashion” by Chen Qiufan, translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld Magazine, August 1) The Dying Game by Asa Avdic, translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles (Penguin, August 1) “The year is 2037. The Soviet Union never fell, and much of Europe has been
“An Age of Ice” by Zhang Ran, translated by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld Magazine, July 1) Bullseye! by Yasutaka Tsutsui, translated by Andrew Driver (Kurodahan Press, July 11) “A new collection of stories by Yasutaka Tsutsui, famed in Japan and worldwide for his darkly humorous, satirical handling of a vast range
