Review: Return From the Stars by Stanislaw Lem

translated by Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson originally published in Poland: 1961 my edition: Harcourt (June 1, 1989) 256 pages grab a copy Reading Stanislaw Lem “It was a hundred and twenty-seven years ago. I was thirty then. The expedition…I was a pilot on the expedition to Fomalhaut. That’s twenty-three light years away. We flew

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SFT 2017 Stats

  2017 has been a fantastic year for SFT! With novels and stories from Japan to Slovakia, there’s no shortage of wonderful things to read.     Standalone Short SFT total: 73               Chinese- 14 (19.4%) (China, Hong Kong) published in Clarkesworld, seat14c.com, Anomaly 25, LARB China Channel, Read

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Review: The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem

translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel originally published in Poland: 1957; expanded 1971 my edition: Harcourt (June 26, 1985) 286 pages Reading Stanislaw Lem As you know, I’ve set myself the very enjoyable task of reading all of Stanislaw Lem’s speculative fiction that’s available in English. And since I love doing things chronologically, I’ve

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NEA Literature Translation Fellowship Recipients and SFT

Congratulations to Amalia Gladhart, Maruxa Relaño, and Anna Guercio Rosenwong for winning NEA Translation Fellowship grants to translate works of international speculative fiction!   To Amalia Gladhart: “To support the translation from the Spanish of the novel Jaguars’ Tomb by Argentine writer Angélica Gorodischer. …Published in 2005, Jaguars’ Tomb is a 218-page novel of three

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