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
The people behind the French spec fic magazine Angle Mort are expanding their vision to include French works in English with the following goals in mind: “(1) Bolster the ties between French and American science fiction, by launching a new magazine that translates French stories into English. We think that French science fiction is rich from
translated by Nick Caistor Restless Books July 12, 2016 544 pages The Year 200 has been compared to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and rightly so, but de Rojas takes the idea of “body snatching” to an entirely new level. Let me explain. The people of Earth are living under the Communist Federation, which
There’s a LOT of great stuff out this year from Restless Books, Haikasoru, Aqueduct, and more: check it out!
Publisher: Ilan Stavans “An International Publisher for a World in Motion” http://www.restlessbooks.com/ Reviews on this site:
Award-winning Spanish author Elia Barceló writes both science fiction and children’s books. Born in Alicante, she currently lives in Austria where she teaches Spanish literature. Her story “The Star” was included in the anthology Castles in Spain and her novel Heart of Tango was translated into English in 2010. Rachel Cordasco: When did
translated by Lola M. Rogers Pushkin Press January 20, 2015 352 pages I must admit, I was hoping that the mysterious woman at the heart of this novel turned out to be a dimension-shifting alien robot. And who knows, she might have been. But I’m jumping ahead of myself. I’ve never read anything quite
According to the Cadmus Press site, the “Zoran Živković Collection will be available in hardcover, trade paperback, and electronic editions…The first works to be published will be The Five Wonders of the Danube, only available in a limited multi-lingual edition from Zavod (Serbia), and The Papyrus Trilogy, bringing together the cases of Dejan Lucik, star
Super Extra Grande by Yoss, translated by David Frye (Restless Books, 160 pages, June 7) “With the playfulness and ingenuity of Douglas Adams, the Cuban science-fiction master Yoss delivers a space opera of intergalactic proportions with Super Extra Grande, the winner of the twentieth annual UPC Science Fiction Award in 2011. In a distant future
Today, I attended the Science Fiction in Translation Panel at WisCon: the feminist science fiction convention held each year in Madison, Wisconsin (#SFinTranslation, #wc40). Moderator Jaymee Goh and translators S. Qiouyi Lu (Chinese into English) and Arrate Hidalgo (English into Spanish) explored the ins and outs of translating science fiction, discussing their own experiences with
