translated by Maya Vinokour original publication (in Russian): 1989 (LF), 1972 (US) first English edition: 2020, Chicago Review Press grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library After reading the remarkable nested novel Lame Fate/Ugly Swans, I decided to make a list of the other Strugatsky works that I’ve read so
“Tomorrow’s Beautiful Dream” by Ju Chu, translated from the Chinese by Carmen Yiling Yan (Clarkesworld, January 1) “All My Birds“ by K.A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Asimov’s, January/February) Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo, translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Robin Myers (Algonquin Books, January 13) In the disorienting, devastatingly
Artificial Truth by J. M. Lee, translated from the Korean by Sean Lin Halbert (Amazon Crossing, December 1) In the virtual city of Alegria, fantasies are made real, innumerable lifetimes are lived, and even death itself is a survivable experience. An escape from reality that changed the landscape of artificial intelligence, it is home to
“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
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,
Here’s my joint-SFT review with Joachim Boaz over at Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations, this time on Arkady Strugatsky’s “Wanderers and Travellers” (1963, trans. 1966). Check it out here!
“Sea of Fertility” by Bella Han, translated from the Chinese by the author (Clarkesworld, August 1) Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa (NYRB, August 5) Forty miles north of Rome, near the village of Bomarzo, Pier Francesco Orsini created a park of monstrous statuary in which the nightmares of
“Serpent Carriers” by K.A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Clarkesworld, July 1) “Cephalomorphs” by Luis Carlos Barragán Castro, translated from the Spanish (Colombia) by isaac dwyer (Asymptote, July) “Anthropocene” by Carolina Brown, translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Jessica Powell (Asymptote, July) Into the Sun by C. F. Ramuz, translated from the
Check out my review of Marina and Sergey Dyachenko’s final installment in the Vita Nostra trilogy–School of Shards–translated by Julia Meitov Hersey, in the latest issue of Words Without Borders.
School of Shards by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko, translated from the Russian by Julia Meitov Hersey (Harper Voyager, June 17) The haunting final chapter of the modern classic Vita Nostra trilogy. The Dyachenkos’ magical dark academia novel brings the story of Sasha to a revelatory climax as she learns to take control of her powers
