translated by Martin Aitken original publication (in Danish): 2023 first English edition: 2025, New Directions 144 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library This small, strange, polyphonic book refuses to settle down into something knowable. As someone who’s learned about and read multiple texts about the (American) witch hunts
Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan, translated from the Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood (S&S/Summit Books, September 2) Welcome to the Japan of tomorrow. Here, the practice of radical sympathy toward criminals has become normalized. The incarcerated are considered victims influenced by their environments to commit crime and are labeled accordingly as Homo miserabilis. A grand,
translated by Barbara Haveland original publication (in Danish): 2020 first English edition: 2024, New Directions 185 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Review of Book I We left Tara Selter at the end of Book I attempting to figure out how to move forward, despite being trapped in
translated by Barbara Haveland original publication (in Danish): 2020 first English edition: 2024, New Directions 160 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature, On the Calculation of Volume I is a book in which so much, and so little,
edited by Carl-Eddy Skovgaard Afterword by Niels Dalgaard Science Fiction Cirklen, 2010 242 pages grab a copy here Sky City is a hidden gem. With stories drawn from the first two “best of the best” science fiction anthologies published by Science Fiction Cirklen (the Danish science fiction fan association) in 2007 and 2008, this SFT
translated from the Danish by Joan Tate original edition: 1969 translated edition: Doubleday, 1971 183 pages grab a copy through your local independent bookstore or library Also see SF Ruminations and The Complete Review for their thoughts on this strange and fascinating novel Anders Bodelsen’s Freezing Down came out in Denmark around the time that
translated by Martin Aitken Lolli Editions (2020), New Directions (2022) 133 pages grab a copy here or or through your local independent bookstore or library Olga Ravn’s The Employees is the first work of Danish SFT I’ve ever read, and it doesn’t disappoint. Presented as a series of statements given to a committee by human
Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah: From the Notes of Dr. Renard de Montepensier by Louis Levy, translated from the German translation by W. C. Bamberger (Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2010 / Wakefield Press, 2017). Summary: “Originally published in Danish in 1910, Kzradock the Onion Man and the Spring-Fresh Methuselah is a fevered
A World Intervenes (1961) by Otto Viking, translated by ? (Exposition Press, 1964). Summary: “A young Danish couple is recruited by a secret organization based on Venus that makes use of flying saucers (see UFOs) and has planted a hidden colony in Antarctica, aiming to help Earth through its crisis of development and guide its
Svend Åge Madsen (b. 1939, Ǻrhus, Denmark) studied mathematics and physics before becoming a writer. He’s written novels, short stories, children and youth books, plays for theatres, radio and television. BOOKS AND STORIES BY SVEND ǺGE MADSEN AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH Virtue and Vice in the Middle Time (1976)
