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2020 SFT on the Web

By Rachel CordascoApril 3, 2020SFT on the Web

JANUARY “The Salt in Her Kiss” by Malena Salazar Maciá, translated from the Spanish by ? (The Future Fire). “Memoir of a Turkey” by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, translated from the Spanish by Kayla Andrews (Asymptote Journal). In which a dead turkey’s innards yield a packet of papers, which turn out to be the turkey’s own

LoGH on Locus

By Rachel CordascoMarch 10, 2020reviewDaniel Huddleston, Haikasoru, Japan, Japanese, Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, Matt Treyvaud, Tyran Grillo, Yoshiki Tanaka

Check out my essay on the entire Legend of the Galactic Heroes series for the Locus Roundtable here.

Out This Month: March

By Rachel CordascoMarch 4, 2020out this monthChina, Chinese, Deep Vellum, Future Science Fiction Digest, Jessica Schiefauer, Mike Olivson, Russia, Russian, Sweden, Swedish, Two Lines Press, Yevgeny Lukin

SHORT STORIES “The Task Lamp” by Bruce Sterling, translated from the Italian by the author (Medium, March 16). “Vik From Planet Earth” by Yevgeny Lukin, translated from the Russian by Mike Olivson (Future Science Fiction Digest, March). NOVELS Girls Lost by Jessica Schiefauer,

Review: Red Dust by Yoss

By Rachel CordascoFebruary 17, 2020reviewCuba, Restless Books, Spanish, Yoss

translated by David Frye Restless Books July 7, 2020 208 pages grab a copy A wild ride from the first page, Red Dust (Yoss’s latest novel in English) is a highly-entertaining space opera indebted to classic detective fiction. It also has an unusual protagonist in the form of Raymond, a positronic robot detective who is tasked

Out This Month: February

By Rachel CordascoFebruary 4, 2020out this monthAndrew Bromfield, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Carolina de Robertis, Chicago Review Press, Clarkesworld Magazine, Cuba, Harper Voyager, Harvill Secker, Indonesia, Indonesian, Intan Paramaditha, Julia Meitov Hersey, Malena Salazar Maciá, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, Mariner Books, Ray Loriga, Russia, Russian, Spanish, Stephen J. Epstein, Toshiya Kamei

SHORT STORIES “Eyes of the Crocodile” by Malena Salazar Maciá, translated from the Spanish by Toshiya Kamei (Clarkesworld Magazine, February 1). NOVELS The Inhabited Island by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield (Chicago Review Press, February 4). Daughter from the

Out This Month: January

By Rachel CordascoJanuary 4, 2020out this monthAnna Holmwood, Asymptote Journal, Bibiana Camacho, Chen Qiufan, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld Magazine, Dayla Rogers, Elisa Sinn, Emily Jin, German, Germany, Gigi Chang, Grand Central Publising, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, I-Hyeong Yun, Jamie Searle Romanelli, Jin Yong, Justin Howe, Kayla Andrews, Kemal Varol, Korea, Korean, Lisa Dillman, MacLehose Press, Marc-Uwe Kling, Mexico, Spanish, Turkey, Turkish, UT-Austin, World Literature Today

SHORT STORIES “The Perfect Sail” by I-Hyeong Yun, translated from the Korean by Elisa Sinn and Justin Howe (Clarkesworld Magazine, January 1). “The Ancestral Temple in a Box” by Chen Qiufan, translated from the Chinese by Emily Jin (Clarkesworld Magazine, January 1). “The Other Woman” by Bibiana Camacho, translated from the Spanish by

SFT 2019 Stats

By Rachel CordascoJanuary 2, 2020statsstats

While SFT comes to us from many different languages and nations, some continue to dominate year after year (Japanese, French, and Spanish). Japanese SFT made up the largest book-length chunk in 2019 (22.2%), with French (15.6%) and German (13.3%) coming in second and third, respectively. Short fiction, however, was dominated by Spanish (21.7%) stories, followed by

2019

By Rachel CordascoDecember 30, 2019out in...2019

* See the full list of long- and short-form SFT from 2019 here JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY