translated by Nigel Ross Acheron Books February 3, 2017 203 pages They were the Shardan. They were the chosen people, the guardians of Hell, the rulers of the sea. Thus begins the story of Bronze-Age warriors on Sardinia in a desperate battle against the Incubi, who have started pouring out of the netherworld and
This is the fifth 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. “Ron,” by the Italian writer Ben Bamboo Korami, was the winner of a flash fiction contest held by Acheron Books in conjunction with sfintranslation.com. I
Frankenstein meets classic cyberpunk in this work of contemporary Italian science fiction by Francesco Verso. Check out my review in an upcoming issue of Strange Horizons.
The Mountains of Parnassus by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Stanley Bill (Yale University Press, January 10) “Written in the 1970s and published posthumously in Polish in 2012, Milosz’s deliberately unfinished novel is set in a dystopian future where hierarchy, patriarchy, and religion no longer exist. Echoing the structure of The Captive Mind and written in
This is the third 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. Fabio Lastrucci is a Weird, SF and Fantasy writer, and the author of novels, essays and short stories published in magazines and collections. L’estate segreta
This is the second 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. Vincenzo Barone Lumaga is a Weird and New Gothic writer, and the author of short stories published in magazines and collections. His first novel is
translated by Andrew Tanzi Acheron Books November 16, 2014 62 pages I first read the title story in The Apex Book of World SF 4 (ed. Mahvesh Murad, 2015) a year ago, and I remember being extremely disturbed by it then. Just a couple of days ago, I read it again, and it was
Acheron Books Editor: Samuel Marolla The first and only publishing house that produces Italian fantasy, science fiction and horror fiction and distributes it worldwide in English (as e-books). Reviews on this site:
translated by Kieren Bailey Acheron Books July 25, 2015 184 pages I’ll tell you what’s been missing from your life: an Italian historical fantasy set in 13th-century Florence about longstanding family feuds and the spirits that guide them. That’s right. Eternal War: Armies of Saints weaves together Italian history, Christian figures, poetry (Dante makes
