The world of Finnish speculative fiction is a wonderfully varied one, with authors like Johanna Sinisalo, Leena Krohn, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, and many others pushing the boundaries of the genre and exploring everything from hard sci-fi to the “Finnish Weird.” Philosophical, surreal, haunting: Finnish speculative fiction isn’t afraid to rip away the veil of reality
This is the sixth in a series of posts featuring original speculative flash fiction in translation. The series highlights both new and established spec fic writers from around the world. Alina Abdullah is a PhD candidate from the University of Leeds with a particular interest in the history of art in Southeast Asia. She
French science fiction writer Gérard Klein has four novels available in English (all initially translated in the 1970s). An economist by profession, Klein is also an editor, anthologist, and critic. Starmasters’ Gambit, translated by C. J. Richards (DAW, 1973) The Mote in Time’s Eye, translated by Damon Knight and C. J. Richards (Black Coat Press,
Your weekly dose of SF in translation links: Black Gate interviewed Mohammad Rabie, author of Otared The Guardian featured a review of Petrosyan’s The Gray House Bogi Takács reviewed Noon: 22nd Century by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky “How novelist Ken Liu is bringing Chinese sci-fi to the Western world” World Literature Today featured a review
In 2011, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer did a series of interviews with Finnish authors, editors, and bloggers about their work in relation to speculative fiction: Toni Jerrman, editor of the Finnish magazine, Tähtivaeltaja Finnish editor and critic, Jukka Halme (Part I and Part II) writer Johanna Sinisalo writer Viivi Hyvonen writer
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
