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2021

JANUARY   The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (Hogarth, January 12). Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism

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From Japan: Manga and Light Novels

          Manga: Japanese or Japanese-influenced comics and graphic novels. Usually printed in black-and-white. See goodreads lists. Light novel: (or Ranobe) is a style of Japanese novel typically not more than 40-50,000 words long, usually published in bunkobon size, and often illustrated. The text is often serialized in anthology magazines prior to

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From China: Wuxia and Xanxia

Interested in learning more about popular Chinese fantasy in translation? Below are definitions and resources to get you started reading wuxia and xianxia.           Definitions The following definitions come from wuxiaworld: wuxia (‘Wu’ and ‘Xia’, which literally mean ‘martial hero’): “Wuxia stories are basically martial arts stories, with an essentially ‘real’

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The Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan

translated from the Tamil by Nirmal Rajagopalan Blaft Publications July 7, 2019 241 pages grab a copy The Aayakudi Murders is the latest work of Tamil SFT from Blaft Publications, which previously gave us three volumes of The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction. Aayakudi is a short and fast-paced supernatural thriller that, on the

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Zoran Živković

Cadmus Press is publishing the “Zoran Živković Collection,” showcasing the surrealistic and Borgesian work of the internationally-known Serbian author. Each cover is beautifully imagined by artist Youchan Ito.         translated by Alice Copple-Tošić, 2016           translated by Alice Copple-Tošić and Vik Tošić, 2016 (includes The Compendium of the

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Élisabeth Vonarburg

Élisabeth Vonarburg is a French-born Canadian teacher, editor, critic and author. She was fiction editor 1979-1990 and editor 1983-1985 of Solaris, the world’s oldest-established French-language sf magazine. Here’s a list of Vonarburg’s speculative fiction novels and collections available in English.         The Silent City (Silent City #1)(Denoel, 1981) novel translated by Jane

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