Your weekly dose of SF in translation links: A new work of Czech sf available from Twisted Spoon Press The third volume of the Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction is out this July A review of 2084: The End of the World Lithub’s list of books by Czech women that should be translated– includes
Check out the Finnish-English Literary Translation Cooperative’s speculative fiction section, which includes summaries and review excerpts of several recent works of great SF in translation:
Your weekly dose of SF in Translation links: “Japanese Refight the War, And Win, in Pulp Fiction”– by Andrew Pollack, NYT, 1995 (I’ve been reading the brilliant novel The Sacred Era by Yoshio Aramaki and learned about this article from the Introduction) “Singapore Fantasy Fiction Takes Flight”– by Olivia Ho, The Straits Times, May 2
translated by Jacob Homel Talonbooks September 6, 2016 200 pages A post-apocalyptic road novel based loosely on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, Running on Fumes follows an unnamed narrator on a journey to reconnect with his father nearly five thousand miles away. The catalyst for this journey (through both a desolate landscape and
translated by Jamey Gambrell New York Review Books April 17, 2007 320 pages The Slynx, Tolstaya’s first novel after two collections of short stories, is a heady mix of dystopian dreariness and absurd hilarity. Set two hundred years in the future, after some kind of nuclear disaster, the novel follows the lives of those surviving
“The Person Who Saw Cetus” by Tang Fei, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Clarkesworld Magazine, May 1). Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre, translated from the French by Kaiama L. Glover (Akashic Books, May 2) “Hadriana in All My Dreams, winner of the prestigious Prix Renaudot,
Futuristica, Volume II (from Metasagas Press) is available now, and includes the story “Iron Goddess of Compassion” by Olha Chyhyrynska, translated by Anatoly Belilovsky. Check it out!
Your weekly dose of #SFinTranslation links: “An Image of Africa From the Sky: Jules Verne’s ‘Five Weeks in a Balloon’”- a review by John Rieder on LARB “An Isle of Amour and the Human Paradise: The Futuristic Fiction of Nicolas Ségur” by Brian Stableford on The New York Review of Science Fiction “World Weaver Press
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has an impressive history of publishing speculative fiction in translation. Between 1953 and 2017, they have featured 46 such works (noveletes, novellas, short stories). Here is the list from 1953 through 1998. Below, I’ve listed stories published since 1999: “The Carpetmaker’s Son” by Andreas Eschbach, translated by Doryl
Strange Horizons hosted a roundtable on Iraq + 100 (ed. Hassan Blasim) and Arabic sci-fi in general: read it here.
