“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,
Over at the Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Center at the Ohio State University, Sun Mengtian interviewed acclaimed Chinese SF writer Chen Qiufan (Stanley Chan): check it out!
The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan, translated by Yuri Machkasov (Amazon Crossing, April 25) “Bound to wheelchairs and dependent on prosthetic limbs, the physically disabled students living in the House are overlooked by the Outsides. Not that it matters to anyone living in the House, a hulking old structure that its residents know is alive.
Samovar Magazine‘s inaugural issue is out now, featuring speculative fiction (translated from Finnish, Hebrew, and Arabic), poetry (translated from Chinese), and reviews! Check it out!!
The Lady of the Lake (Witcher Series #5) by Andrzej Sapkowski, translated by David French (Orbit, March 14) “After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world… an Elven world. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to
Check out Eric Abrahamsen’s interview with Ken Liu on the GLLI (Global Literature in Libraries Initiative) Blog about all things Chinese #SFinTranslation!
translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping Open Letter Books March 14, 2017 470 pages In a surreal/unreal place called “Pebble Town” live men, women, and children for whom such concepts as time and geographical location seem meaningless. “Frontier”, then, is quite the appropriate title, given that this particular word conjures up images of
Recently, Read Paper Republic, which focuses on Chinese literature in translation, published a series called “Afterlives.” In these stories, “death is merely the beginning” and each is “populated with ghosts, memories, and otherworldly reincarnations.” Below are links to the stories, which are freely available: “Dragon Boat” by Ge Liang, translated by Karen Curtis
Pathological by Wang Jinkang, translated by Jeremy Tiang (AmazonCrossing, December 27) “On the surface, the life of young scientist Mei Yin seems perfect. She runs her own research institute in China, she’s getting married, and she founded an orphanage that helps hundreds of girls. But Mei Yin has a dark secret—three vials of “Satan’s gift,”
Review at Tor.com: “The Lyricism and Pathos of Chinese SF: Invisible Planets, Edited and Translated by Ken Liu”
