Head of Zeus – Speculative Fiction in Translation

Out This Month: November

By Rachel CordascoNovember 2, 2025out this monthBourbon Penn, Clarkesworld, Clelia Farris, Djuna, Elena Garro, Gord Sellar, Head of Zeus, Italian, Italy, Jacek Dukaj, Jihyun Park, Kaya Press, Korean, Megan McDowell, Poland, Polish, Rachel Cordasco, Ramiro Sanchiz, Spanish, Sue Burke, Two Lines Press, Ursula Phillips

“Threehearts and Me” by Clelia Farris, translated from the Italian by Rachel Cordasco (Bourbon Penn, November 1) “Trees at Night” by Ramiro Sanchiz, translated from the Spanish by Sue Burke (Clarkesworld, November 1) Ice by Jacek Dukaj, translated from the Polish by Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus, November 6) A Trans-Siberian odyssey through political, criminal,

Out This Month: September

By Rachel CordascoSeptember 7, 2025out this monthAndrzej Sapkowski, Argentina, China, Chinese, Cixin Liu, Dalkey Archive Press, Danish, David French, Denmark, Gollancz, Hanover Square Press, Head of Zeus, Helen R. Lane, Hika Harada, Japan, Japanese, Jesse Kirkwood, Juan Jose Saer, Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzstan, Margaret Mitsutani, Martin Aitken, Max Lawton, Megan McDowell, New Directions, Olga Ravn, Open Letter, Philip Gabriel, Poland, Polish, Rie Qudan, Russia, Russian, S&S/Summit Books, Samanta Schweblin, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Spanish, Sultan Raev, Syracuse University Press, Vladimir Sorokin, Yoko Tawada

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,

Out This Month: October

By Rachel CordascoOctober 2, 2022out this monthAlan Kubatiev, Alex Shvartsman, Analía Villagra, Argentina, Chang Yu-Ko, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld, Head of Zeus, Lauren Harper, Lavie Tidhar, Megan McDowell, Mónica Bustos, Paraguay, Riverhead Books, Russia, Russian, Samanta Schweblin, Samovar, Spanish, Stella Jiayue Zhu, Taiwan

SHORT STORIES “Fly Free” by Alan Kubatiev, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Clarkesworld, October 1). “Giant Fish” by Chu Shifan, translated from the Chinese by Stella Jiayue Zhu (Clarkesworld, October 1). “Warm beds” by Mónica Bustos, translated from the Spanish (Paraguay) by Analía Villagra (Samovar, October 24) “The

Farris in The Best of World SF 2

By Rachel CordascoJuly 28, 2022spotlightClelia Farris, Head of Zeus, Italian, Italy, Lavie Tidhar

I’m so excited that Clelia Farris’s fascinating story “The Substance of Ideas” (in my translation from the Italian) will appear in Lavie Tidhar’s upcoming anthology The Best of World SF, Volume 2! And check out that rockin’ table of contents!

Out This Month: June

By Rachel CordascoJune 3, 2021out this monthAlex Shvartsman, Alexander Bachilo, Alfred Döblin, Arabic, Ari Larissa Heinrich, Asimov's, Chi Ta-wei, China, Chinese, Chris Godwin, Clarkesworld Magazine, Columbia University Press, Cristina Jurado, Egypt, Future Science Fiction Digest, Galileo Publishers, German, Germany, Head of Zeus, K. A Teryna, Lavie Tidhar, Mohamed Kheir, Nathan Faries, Robin Moger, Russia, Russian, Spain, Spanish, Sue Burke, Two Lines Press, Wanxiang Fengnian

SHORT STORIES “Embracing the Movement” by Cristina Jurado, translated from the Spanish by Sue Burke (Clarkesworld, June 1) “Face Changing” by Jiang Bo, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld, June 1) “The Chartreuse Sky” by K.A. Teryna and Alexander Bachilo, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Asimov’s, May/June)

Out This Month: April

By Rachel CordascoApril 4, 2020out this monthAlex Shvartsman, Andrés Barba, Angry Robot, Asaf Ashery, Blake Stone-Banks, Chen Qiufan, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld Magazine, Eldar Safin, Francesco Verso, Hao Jingfang, Head of Zeus, Hebrew, HMH, Israel, Italian, Italy, Ken Liu, Lisa Dillman, Luna Press Publishing, Marganit Weinberger-Rotman, Russia, Russian, Sally McCorry, Samovar Magazine, Spain, Spanish

SHORT STORIES “Debtless” by Chen Qiufan, translated from the Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks (Clarkesworld Magazine, April 1). “The Green Hills of Dimitry Totzkiy” by Eldar Safin, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Samovar, April). NOVELS Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, translated from the

Upcoming Polish, Czech, and Russian SF in Translation

By Rachel CordascoMarch 24, 2017newsCzech, Czech Republic, Hanuš Seiner, Harper Voyager, Head of Zeus, Jacek Dukaj, Julia Hersey, Julie Nováková, Poland, Polish, Russia, Russian

Lots of news came out this week regarding central and eastern European speculative fiction in English translation… keep ’em comin’ ! The publisher Head of Zeus has acquired World English rights to Polish author Jacek Dukaj’s thousand-page-long novel Ice. The book “conjur[es] an alternate 20th Century, where Russia and half of Europe are

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