Tag Archives: Italian

Italian SFT on Three Percent

Chad Post of Open Letter Books and the Three Percent website is launching a new project focusing on translators as curators. During the month of June, I will be partnering with Chad to focus on Italian science fiction in translation.  Through excerpts, profiles, readings, shorter podcasts, movie clips, and more, we will introduce readers to

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Review: BUG by Giacomo Sartori

translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall Restless Books February 2, 2021 320 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore   So many things happen simultaneously in Bug that, with any other writer, this kind of chaos would veer completely out of control (like a rapidly-developing AI consciousness, perhaps?). Sartori, though,

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Out This Month: March

SHORT STORIES “The Orbiting Guan Erye” by Wang Zhenzhen, translated from the Chinese by Carmen Yiling Yan (Clarkesworld, March 1).           “The Second Celeste” by Alberto Chimal, translated from the Spanish by Patrick Weill (Future Science Fiction Digest, March 15) “The Two Festivals that Cannot Coexist” by Liu Cixin, translated from

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Out This Month: February

SHORT STORIES   “Terra Rasa” by Anastasia Bookreyeva, translated from the Russian by Ray Nayler (Clarkesworld, February 1).         “There Was No Adderall in the Soviet Union,” by Olga Breininger, translated from the Russian by Hilah Kohen (Words Without Borders, February).           “Imilla” by Vania T. Curtidor, translated

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Clelia Farris’s Creative Surgery

    Award-winning Italian author Clelia Farris’s collection, Creative Surgery (translated from the Italian by myself and Jennifer Delare) came out a few months ago from Rosarium Publishing and is getting some much-deserved attention (I know, I’m biased! But really, her work is fantastic). Here are links to four reviews:     Publishers Weekly starred

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Out This Month: January

SHORT STORIES “Chronotope” by Raul Ciannella, translated from the Italian by Rachel Cordasco (Ab Terra 2020, January 26). A small team enslaved to data entry roles by an AI system manages to break out by combining their “alienating habits,” which allow them to work at super-fast speeds.         NOVELS The Route of

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Out This Month: December

SHORT STORIES   “No Way Back” by Chi Hui, translated from the Chinese by John Chu (Clarkesworld, December 1).         “Rœsin” by Wu Guan, translated from the Chinese by Judith Huang (Future Science Fiction Digest–East Asia Special Issue, December) “Raising Mermaids” by Dai Da, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu

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Review: Dissipatio H. G.: The Vanishing by Guido Morselli

  originally published in Italian in 1977 translated by Frederika Randall NYRB Classics December 1, 2020 144 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore Dissipatio Humanis Generis: the disappearance of the human race. This is Guido Morselli’s theme, and it’s explored with all of the seriousness and depth one would expect

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Out This Month: October

SHORT STORIES     “All Living Creation” by Xiu Xinyu, translated from the Chinese by Elizabeth Hanlon (Clarkesworld Magazine, October 1).         “20th Century Hotel” by Tomihiko Morimi, translated from the Japanese by Emily Balistrieri (Samovar, October 26). “Express to Beijing West Railway Station” by Congyun ‘Mu Ming’ Gu, translated from the

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