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Publisher Spotlight: Acheron Books

By Rachel CordascoJuly 11, 2016spotlightAcheron Books, Italian, Italy, Livio Gambarini

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:

Out This Month: July 2016

By Rachel CordascoJuly 4, 20161 commentout this monthA. Que, Agustin de Rojas, Andrew Bromfield, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Chicago Review Press, China, Clarkesworld Magazine, Cuba, Daniel Huddleston, Haikasoru, Japan, Kurodahan Press, Nick Caistor, Restless Books, Russia, Tyran C. Grillo, Vintage, Yoshiki Tanaka, Yusaki Kitano

The Doomed City by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated by Andrew Bromfield (Chicago Review Press, July 1) “The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its

REVIEW: The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo

By Rachel CordascoJuly 3, 2016reviewFinland, Finnish, Grove Press Black Cat, Johanna Sinisalo, The Core of the Sun

This is a guest post by Marie Cloutier. Check out her website, The Boston Bibliophile, and follow her on twitter @MarieKCloutier. translated by Lola Rogers Grove Press, Black Cat January 5, 2016 304 pages James Tiptree Jr. Award-winner Johanna Sinisalo takes us on a trip through a reimagined modern day Finland in The Core

REVIEW: Cat Country by Lao She

By Rachel CordascoJuly 1, 2016reviewChina, Chinese, Lao She, Penguin Modern Classics, William A. Lyell

translated by William A. Lyell Penguin Modern Classics orig. 1932; December 1, 2015 240 pages Prophetic and profoundly disturbing, Cat Country is Lao She’s dark speculative satire about one man’s experience with a species of cat-people living on Mars. While on the surface, the story is about the wholesale corruption of Cat society (social,

INTERVIEW: Julien Wacquez of Angle Mort and Blind Spot Magazine

By Rachel CordascoJune 27, 2016interviewAngle Mort, Blind Spot Magazine, France, French, Julien Wacquez

Julien Wacquez is a PhD student in sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. His research focuses on the manner in which science fiction authors lean on scientific knowledge already established to shape their stories, and also on the way these stories pose problems that are expected to be solved through

REVIEW: Eternal War: Armies of Saints by Livio Gambarini

By Rachel CordascoJune 24, 2016reviewAcheron Books, Italian, Italy, Kieren Bailey, Livio Gambarini

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

NEWS: New Online Magazine of French Science Fiction in Translation- Blind Spot

By Rachel CordascoJune 22, 2016newsFrance

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

REVIEW: The Year 200 by Agustín de Rojas

By Rachel CordascoJune 19, 2016reviewAgustin de Rojas, Cuba, Nick Caistor, Restless Books

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