I’ve started a new page on this site that focuses on contemporary Italian sf that needs to be translated into English and published in the U.S. I’ll be adding more titles to this list, along with translated synopses. Let me know what else I should add!
This is the eighth in a series of posts featuring speculative flash fiction in translation. The series highlights both new and established spec fic writers from around the world. Alessandra Cristallini is the mind behind the blog Fragments of a Hologram Dystopia (bilingual page / English only page), a sci-fi blog where she collects pictures
Weird Fiction Review recently interviewed translator Ramon Glazov about his recent project, the Italian spec fic novel The Twenty Days of Turin. Read the interview here.
The latest issue of Strange Horizons features two SFT reviews: my review of Francesco Verso’s Nexhuman and Kari Sperring’s review of Red Girls. Check ’em out!
translated by Nigel Ross Acheron Books February 3, 2017 203 pages They were the Shardan. They were the chosen people, the guardians of Hell, the rulers of the sea. Thus begins the story of Bronze-Age warriors on Sardinia in a desperate battle against the Incubi, who have started pouring out of the netherworld and
This is the fifth in a series of posts featuring speculative flash fiction in translation. The series highlights both new and established spec fic writers from around the world. “Ron,” by the Italian writer Ben Bamboo Korami, was the winner of a flash fiction contest held by Acheron Books in conjunction with sfintranslation.com. I
Frankenstein meets classic cyberpunk in this work of contemporary Italian science fiction by Francesco Verso. Check out my review in an upcoming issue of Strange Horizons.
The Mountains of Parnassus by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Stanley Bill (Yale University Press, January 10) “Written in the 1970s and published posthumously in Polish in 2012, Milosz’s deliberately unfinished novel is set in a dystopian future where hierarchy, patriarchy, and religion no longer exist. Echoing the structure of The Captive Mind and written in
This is the third in a series of posts featuring speculative flash fiction in translation. The series highlights both new and established spec fic writers from around the world. Fabio Lastrucci is a Weird, SF and Fantasy writer, and the author of novels, essays and short stories published in magazines and collections. L’estate segreta
Isra Isle by Nava Semel, translated by Jessica Cohen (Mandel Vilar Press, November 1) “This novel is inspired by a true historical event. Before Theodore Herzl there was Mordecai Manuel Noah, an American journalist, diplomat, playwright, and visionary. In September 1825 he bought Grand Island, downriver from Niagara Falls, from the local Native Americans as
