Speculative Fiction in Translation – Page 25 – Your guide to speculative fiction from around the world

Review: I am the Tiger by John Ajvide Lindqvist

By Rachel CordascoJanuary 30, 2022reviewJohn Ajvide Lindqvist, Marlaine Delargy, Sweden, Swedish

Guest Review: I’m Waiting For You and Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young

By Rachel CordascoJanuary 25, 2022guest post, reviewHarper Voyager, Kalin Stacey, Kim Bo-Young, Korea, Korean, Sophie Bowman, Sung Ryu

Kalin Stacey is a writer, educator, and activist based in Toronto, Canada. He is currently a student of translation studies at Glendon College, a voracious reader of SFF, and an aspiring translator of speculative fiction. translated from the Korean by Sophie Bowman & Sung Ryu Harper Voyager April 6, 2021 336 pages grab a copy

Interview: Marlaine Delargy

By Rachel CordascoJanuary 7, 20223 commentsinterview, spotlighthorror, interview, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Marlaine Delargy, Ninni Holmqvist, Sweden, Swedish

Marlaine Delargy grew up in Manchester, England; studied in Aberystwyth, Wales; worked in Sweden and Finland; and taught in Welshpool in Powys and Bewdley in Worcestershire until 2004. She now lives in rural Shropshire with the obligatory collection of spoiled cats. Rachel Cordasco: You have translated many Swedish texts, the majority

Out This Month: January

By Rachel CordascoJanuary 4, 2022out this monthApex Magazine, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld, Coach House Books, Cristina Jurado, Dmitry Glukhovsky, France, French, Gregoire Courtois, Gu Shi, Japan, Japanese, Marian Schwartz, Monica Louzon, Rhonda Mullins, Russia, Russian, S. Qiouyi Lu, Spain, Spanish, World Literature Today, Yilun Fan, Yuki Fuwa

SHORT STORIES “No One at the Wild Dock” by Gu Shi, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Clarkesworld, January 1) “Devour Me” by Yuki Fuwa, translated from the Japanese by (World Literature Today, January) “City Lights” by Yilun Fan, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Apex Magazine, January) “Lamia” by Cristina

SFT 2021 Stats

By Rachel CordascoJanuary 1, 20221 commentstats2021, stats

This year, I tried something different. Instead of just looking at how many short stories were published in magazines/webzines, and then grouping collections with novels and anthologies (while not pulling out the separate short stories in those collections), I decided to lay out how many short stories were published in zines and how many were

2022 SFT on the Web

By Rachel CordascoJanuary 1, 2022SFT on the Web

JANUARY “The Tale of Ak and Humanity” by Yefim Zozulya, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Tor.com). “Sulphur” by Dmitry Glukhovsky, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz (Asymptote). “Lamia” by Cristina Jurado, translated from the Spanish by Monica Louzon (Apex). “City Lights” by Yilun Fan, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu

2022

By Rachel CordascoDecember 30, 2021Uncategorized

JANUARY Present Tense Machine by Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson (FSG, January 11) On an ordinary day in Bergen, Norway, in the late 1990s, Anna is reading in the garden while her two-year-old daughter, Laura, plays on her tricycle. Then, in one startling moment, Anna misreads a word, an alternate universe

More Shimon Adaf

By Rachel CordascoDecember 25, 2021newsHebrew, Israel, Picador, Shimon Adaf, Yardenne Greenspan

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG a whole TRILOGY by Israeli SF author Shimon Adaf is coming out in 2022 in English!! Thank you to translator Yardenne Greenspan and to Picador for making this happen! So while you wait, go read some Shimon Adaf that’s already in English: here, Sunburnt Faces, and “They Had to Move” (Zion’s Fiction).

1950s French SFT

By Rachel CordascoDecember 22, 2021review, spotlightFrance, French, Humphrey Hare, Jean-Louis Curtis

Over on Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations, Joachim Boaz reviews Jean-Louis Curtis’s 1956 collection The Neon Halo (tr. Humphrey Hare, 1958). Here’s a brief excerpt from the review: The French novelist Jean-Louis Curtis (1917-1995), best known for his Prix Goncourt-winning The Forests of the Night (1947), crafts a linked series of short stories in The

Studies in Global Science Fiction

By Rachel CordascoDecember 15, 2021newsglobal science fiction, Ian Campbell, Palgrave

Congrats to Ian Campbell on the publication of Science Fiction in Translation: Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation (out from Palgrave- part of their “Studies in Global Science Fiction” series). I’m honored to have been asked to contribute a chapter!