Publisher Spotlight: Honford Star
Honford Star publishes translated literary fiction from East Asia. Since 2021, they’ve published a dozen works of speculative fiction in translation, including a series called “Lovecraft Reanimated.”
Tag Archives: Honford Star
Out This Month: September
“Raining out there” by Alexandra Senkevich, translated from the Russian by Ilse Meiler (World Literature Today, September) The Black Box: Stories by Mata Kastrisiou, translated from the Greek by Kostas Kaltsas (Arb Editions, September 1) Fierce and sophisticated, dark and dreamy, The Black Box is a collection of transgressive, poetic fiction by Mata Kastrisiou. Each
Out This Month: October
“Giant Grandmother” by Liu Maijia, translated from the Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks (Clarkesworld, October 1) Black Hole Heart and Other Stories by K. A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Fairwood Press, October 1) The world is not how we perceive it. A blizzard may be the fury of a whale god. Intelligent
Review: Red Sword by Bora Chung
Check out my review of Bora Chung’s first novel in English, translated by Anton Hur, in the latest issue of World Literature Today. “Based on the story of seventeenth-century Korean soldiers fighting against Russia on behalf of the Qing dynasty, Red Sword is a story about war, though here it is the far future, where
Review: The Proposal by Bae Myung-Hoon
translated by Stella Kim original publication (in Korean): 2013 first English edition: 2024, Honford Star 144 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library The Proposal is Bae Myung-hoon’s third book in English (all published by Honford Star). I reviewed his second, Launch Something!, here two years ago, and thoroughly
Out This Month: May
Red Sword by Bora Chung, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur (Honford Star, May 13). Red Sword is the mesmerizing and haunting English-language debut novel by International Booker Prize-shortlisted author Bora Chung. Expertly translated by Anton Hur, this speculative fiction unfolds on a distant, war-ravaged planet where advanced technologies wreak havoc and devastation. Told
Out This Month: March
“Pollen” by Anna Burdenko, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Clarkesworld, March 1) “The Sound of the Star” by Ren Zeyu, translated from the Chinese by Jay Zhang (Clarkesworld, March 1) The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Sarah Moses (Scribner, March 4). The long-awaited new novel from the author
Out This Month: May
“Renting to Killers” by Elena Pavlova, translated from the Bulgarian by the author and Kalin M. Nenov (Asimov’s, May/June) Woodworm by Layla Martinez, translated from the Spanish (Spain) by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott (Two Lines Press, May 14) The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that
Review: Your Utopia by Bora Chung
translated by Anton Hur original publication (in Korean): 2021 this edition: Honford Star, 2024 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library “The Center for Immortality Research” “The End of the Voyage” “A Very Ordinary Marriage” “Maria, Gratia Plena” “Your Utopia” “A Song for Sleep” [read here] “Seed” “To Meet Her”
Review: Launch Something! by Bae Myung-Hoon
translated by Stella Kim original publication (in Korean): 2020 first English edition: 2022, Honford Star grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library When I was writing about Korean SFT in Out of This World (2020), only two works of long-form Korean science fiction* were available in English: a work of
