Italian – Speculative Fiction in Translation

Italian SFT in Locus

By Rachel CordascoJanuary 5, 2023spotlightItalian, Italy, Locus Magazine

Locus Magazine has published my essay on Italian SF in translation over the past five years – check it out here!

Out This Month: November

By Rachel CordascoNovember 7, 2022out this monthApex Magazine, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld, Clelia Farris, Comma Press, Italian, Italy, Jay Zhang, Kurdish, Mustafa Gundogdu, Orsola Casagrande, Rachel Cordasco, Yang Wanqing

SHORT STORIES “The Words” by Clelia Farris, translated from the Italian by Rachel Cordasco (Apex Magazine, November 1) (available online 11/15) “Hummingbird, Resting on Honeysuckles” by Yang Wanqing, translated from the Chinese by Jay Zhang (Clarkesworld Magazine, November 1) ANTHOLOGIES Kurdistan + 100: Stories from a

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!

“Another Place”: a new story by Clelia Farris

By Rachel CordascoOctober 25, 2021FictionClelia Farris, Italian, Italy, Rachel Cordasco, Samovar Magazine

Clelia Farris’s story “Another Place,” translated from the Italian by yours truly, is now up at Samovar Magazine. It is a haunting tale of love, loneliness, and energy. Enjoy!

Review: Futurespotting by Francesco Verso

By Rachel CordascoJuly 17, 20211 commentreviewFrancesco Verso, Future Fiction, Georgia Emma Gili, Italian, Italy, Sally McCorry, Sarah Jane Webb, Tom Crosshill

various translators Future Fiction March 21, 2021 194 pages grab a copy “Fernando Morales, This is Your Death!” tr. Sally McCorry “Midsummer Future,” tr. Sally McCorry “Italianskij Tikaj Tikaj,” tr. Tom Crosshill “90 Cents,” tr. Sally McCorry “Flush,” tr. Georgia Emma Gili “The Green Ship,” tr. Michael Colbert “Celestial Formatting,” tr. Georgia Emma Gili “The

Flash Fiction From Around the World: “The Lighthouse Keeper” and “Not Tonight”

By Rachel CordascoJune 6, 2021Flash Fictionflash fiction, Italian, Italy, Loredano Cafaro

This is the latest in a series of posts featuring speculative flash fiction in translation. This series highlights both new and established speculative fiction writers from around the world. Loredano Cafaro lives in the hills of Turin, Italy, with his wife and two children. He is basically a man of few words. “The

Italian SFT on Three Percent

By Rachel CordascoJune 2, 2021newsClelia Farris, Francesco Verso, Giacomo Sartori, Italian, Italy, Open Letter, Primo Levi, Three Percent, Tommaso Landolfi

Chad Post of Open Letter Books and the Three Percent website is launching a new project focusing on translators as curators. During the month of June, I will be partnering with Chad to focus on Italian science fiction in translation. Through excerpts, profiles, readings, shorter podcasts, movie clips, and more, we will introduce readers to

Review: BUG by Giacomo Sartori

By Rachel CordascoApril 25, 2021reviewFrederika Randall, Giacomo Sartori, Italian, Italy, Restless Books

translated from the Italian by Frederika Randall Restless Books February 2, 2021 320 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore So many things happen simultaneously in Bug that, with any other writer, this kind of chaos would veer completely out of control (like a rapidly-developing AI consciousness, perhaps?). Sartori, though,

Out This Month: March

By Rachel CordascoMarch 4, 2021out this monthAlberto Chimal, Alexandra Fleming, Bo-young Kim, Brazil, Camilla Sten, Carmen Yiling Yan, Charlie Homewood, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld Magazine, Francesco Verso, Future Fiction, Future Science Fiction Digest, Gabio Fernandes, German, Germany, Greece, Greek, Italian, Italy, Jo Fletcher Books, Joungmin Lee Comfort, Julia von Lucadou, Kaya Press, Korea, Korean Sora Kim-Russell, Liu Cixin, Luna Press Publishing, Markus Heitz, Mexico, Michael Colbert, Minotaur Books, Nathan Faries, Patrick Weill, Portugese, Sally McCorry, Sharmila Cohen, Spanish, Sweden, Swedish, Two Lines Press, Wang Zhenzhen, World Editions

SHORT STORIES “The Orbiting Guan Erye” by Wang Zhenzhen, translated from the Chinese by Carmen Yiling Yan (Clarkesworld, March 1). “The Second Celeste” by Alberto Chimal, translated from the Spanish by Patrick Weill (Future Science Fiction Digest, March 15) “The Two Festivals that Cannot Coexist” by Liu Cixin, translated from

Out This Month: February

By Rachel CordascoFebruary 5, 2021out this monthAnastasia Bookreyeva, Antoine Volodine, Bae Myung-hoon, Clarkesworld Magazine, Constelación, France, Frederika Randall, French, Giacomo Sartori, Hilah Kohen, Honford Star, Italian, Italy, J. T. Mahany, Kazakhstan, Korea, Korean, Manuela Draeger, Monica Louzon, Olga Breininger, Open Letter, Peru, Ray Nayler, Restless Books, Russia, Russian, Spanish, Sung Ryu, Vania Curtidor

SHORT STORIES “Terra Rasa” by Anastasia Bookreyeva, translated from the Russian by Ray Nayler (Clarkesworld, February 1). “There Was No Adderall in the Soviet Union,” by Olga Breininger, translated from the Russian by Hilah Kohen (Words Without Borders, February). “Imilla” by Vania T. Curtidor, translated

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