Author Archives: Rachel Cordasco

Currently Reading: Love in the New Millennium

Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen November 20, 2018 Yale University Press   From the publisher: “In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in

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SFT on Recent Awards Lists

Gabriela Damián Miravete has won the 2018 Tiptree Award for her short story “They Will Dream In the Garden,” translated by Adrian Demopulos and published online by Latin American Literature Today (May 2018).           The Best Translated Book Award 2019 Fiction Longlist includes several works of SFT: Love in the New

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Out This Month: April

SHORT STORIES “The Flowering” by Soyeon Jeong, translated from the Korean by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar, Clarkesworld Magazine, April 1.   “In Search of Your Memories,” by Nian Yu, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak, Clarkesworld Magazine, April 1.     “The Last Journey” by Florin Purluca, translated from the Romanian by the

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Flash Fiction From Around the World: “The Last Journey”

This is the seventeenth in a series of posts featuring speculative flash fiction in translation. The series highlights both new and established spec fic writers from around the world.   Florin Purluca is a Romanian writer, living in Focșani, Romania. He has a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and works in a psychiatric hospital in

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2019 SFT on the Web

A Week in Future Wales (entire novel) by Islwyn Ffowc Elis, translated from the Welsh by Stephen Morris (Futuredotwales). “Initiation” by Iliana Vargas, translated from the Spanish (Coffin Bell). “Survivor” by Malena Salazar Maciá, translated from the Spanish (Coffin Bell).   JANUARY “Mars Child” by Kim Seong Joong, translated from the Korean by Victoria Caudle

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Reviews of Short Fiction: March Edition

Each month, Daniel Haeusser reviews short works of SFT that appear both online and in print. He is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Canisius College, where he teaches microbiology and leads student research projects with bacteria and bacteriophage. He’s also an associate blogger with the American Society for Microbiology’s popular Small Things Considered.

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Review: Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem

translated by Michael Kandel original publication: Seabury Press, 1977 my edition: Mariner Books, 1992 239 pages Reading Stanislaw Lem Brought together into one volume by translator Michael Kandel, these “robot fables” are not really stories so much as cautionary allegories or references to fairy tales, only now the main characters aren’t princesses and ogres but

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Reviews of Short Fiction: February Edition

Each month, Daniel Haeusser reviews short works of SFT that appear both online and in print. He is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at Canisius College, where he teaches microbiology and leads student research projects with bacteria and bacteriophage. He’s also an associate blogger with the American Society for Microbiology’s popular Small Things Considered.

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