Speculative Fiction in Translation – Page 27 – Your guide to speculative fiction from around the world

Spanish-Language Speculative Fiction by Women in Translation

By Rachel CordascoSeptember 4, 2020SFT recs, spotlightAgustina Bazterrica, Argentina, Bibiana Camacho, Cecilia Weddell, Clarkesworld Magazine, Cuba, Malena Salazar Maciá, Megan McDowell, Mexico, Open Letter, Sarah Moses, Spanish, The Future Fire, Toshiya Kamei, World Literature Today

I wrote a piece about Spanish-language speculative fiction by women in translation for the Three Percent website and in celebration of #WITMonth. Check it out here.

Penguin Science Fiction Series

By Rachel CordascoAugust 18, 2020newsAmalia Gladhart, Andreas Eschbach, Angélica Gorodischer, Antonina W. Bouis, Argentina, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Clarence Brown, Doryl Jensen, German, Germany, Japan, Japanese, Juliet Winters Carpenter, Kobo Abe, Michaek Kandel, Penguin Science Fiction Series, Poland, Polish, Russia, Russian, Spanish, Stanislaw Lem, Yevgeny Zamyatin

The new Penguin Science Fiction Series (which highlights classics of the genre) includes several works of SF in Translation: check it out here. Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer, translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Amalia Gladhart (6/8/2020) We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated from the Russian by Clarence Brown (6/8/2020)

SFT and the Awards

By Rachel CordascoAugust 8, 20203 commentsUncategorizedawards, Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, Nebula Awards, World Fantasy Awards, Worldcon

From the time I started reviewing SFT* for John DeNardo’s SF Signal a billion years ago (that is, November 2014) up until now (with an SFT site that just turned 4 and regular reviews in World Literature Today and Strange Horizons), I’ve thought a lot about the role that translation plays in the American publishing

Out This Month: August

By Rachel CordascoAugust 3, 2020out this monthAgustina Bazterrica, Andy Dudak, Argentina, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Atanas Slavov, Bulgaria, Bulgarian, Chicago Review Press, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld Magazine, Deep Vellum, Fantastika, Jo Fletcher, Kalin Nenov, Mats Strandberg, Maya Vinokour, Mexico, Pergentino José, Russia, Russian, Sarah Moses, Scribner, Sierra Zapotec, Spanish, Sweden, Swedish, Thomas Bunstead, Yan Leisheng

SHORT STORIES “The Plague” by Yan Leisheng, translated by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld, August 1). NOVELS Lame Fate/Ugly Swans by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated from the Russian by Maya Vinokour (Chicago Review Press, August 4). Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, translated from the

Out This Month: July

By Rachel CordascoJuly 3, 2020out this monthAgustin de Rojas, Andrea Lingenfelter, Andy Dudak, China, Chinese, Chinese Literature Today, Cixin Liu, Clarkesworld Magazine, Cuba, Czech, Czech Republic, David Frye, Edward Gauvin, Eisuke Aikawa, France, French, George MacLennan, Hebe Powell, Hong Kong, Isaac Hsu, Japan, Japanese, Jesse Field, Julie Nováková, Kai-cheung Dung, Marcel Brion, Miguel Collazo, Nick Caistor, Restless Books, Samovar, ShakeSpace, Spanish, Taiwan, Toshiya Kamei, Tze-lan Deborah Sang, Wakefield Press, Yoss

SHORT STORIES “Three Stories Conjured from Nothing” by ShakeSpace, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld, July 1). “The Curtain Falls, the Show Must End” by Julie Nováková, translated from the Czech by the author (Samovar, July 27). “Hummingbird” by Eisuke Aikawa, translated from the Japanese by

Clelia Farris and Italian SFT

By Rachel CordascoJune 26, 2020news, spotlightClelia Farris, Italian, Italy, Jennifer Delare, Rachel Cordasco, Rosarium Publishing

Award-winning Italian science fiction author Clelia Farris has a collection of stories coming out in English in September from Rosarium Publishing. Jennifer Delare translated the title story and yours truly translated the other six stories. The collection received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which said, in part: “Across all seven marvelous tales, Farris effortlessly

Swedish SFT: Karin Tidbeck

By Rachel CordascoJune 26, 2020Nordic SFT month, spotlightKarin Tidbeck, Sweden, Swedish

Jagannath, translated by the author (Cheeky Frawg Books, 2012). “A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time. Welcome to the weird world of Karin Tidbeck, the visionary Swedish author of literary sci-fi, speculative fiction, and mind-bending fantasy who has captivated readers

Norwegian SFT: Knut Faldbakken

By Rachel CordascoJune 21, 2020Nordic SFT month, spotlightDufour Editions, Joan Tate, Knut Faldbakken, Norway, Norwegian

Twilight Country (Twilight Country #1), translated by Joan Tate (Dufour Editions, 1993). “A dark, end-of-the-millennium vision permeates this novel by Norwegian author Faldbakken. Fleeing from the collapsing economic, social and legal systems of Sweetwater, a dystopian city in an unnamed country, former architect Allan Ung takes his teenage wife, Lisa, and their four-year-old son,

Norwegian SFT: Gunnhild Øyehaug

By Rachel CordascoJune 18, 2020Nordic SFT month, spotlightFSG, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Kari Dickson, Lydia Davis, Norway, Norwegian, The Paris Review, Words Without Borders

Gunnhild Øyehaug is an award-winning Norwegian poet, essayist, and fiction writer. She was co-editor of the literary journal Vagant and Kraftsentrum and currently teaches creative writing. Profile in The New Yorker NOVEL Knots: Stories, translated by Kari Dickson (FSG, 2017). “First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug’s

Icelandic SFT: Bragi, Magnason, Vilhjálmsson

By Rachel CordascoJune 16, 2020Nordic SFT month, spotlightAlexander Dan Vilhjálmsson, Gollancz, Iceland, Icelandic, Lorenzo Garcia, Macmillan UK, Seven Stories Press, Steinar Bragi, Victoria Cribb

The Ice Lands by Steinar Bragi, translated by Lorenzo Garcia (Macmillan UK, 2016). “The Ice Lands by Steinar Bragi is set against the backdrop of Iceland’s volcanic hinterlands, four thirty-somethings from Reykjavík embark on an ambitious camping trip, their jeep packed with supplies. The purpose of the trip is to heal both professional and