{"id":10019,"date":"2021-01-04T04:49:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T04:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=10019"},"modified":"2021-01-28T03:55:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T03:55:47","slug":"out-this-month-january-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=10019","title":{"rendered":"Out This Month: January"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SHORT STORIES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"“Chronotope”<\/span><\/a> by Raul Ciannella, translated from the Italian by Rachel Cordasco (Ab Terra 2020<\/em>, January 26).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A small team enslaved to data entry roles by an AI system manages to break out by combining their \u201calienating habits,\u201d which allow them to work at super-fast speeds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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NOVELS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Route of Ice and Salt<\/span><\/em> <\/a>by Jos\u00e9 Luis Z\u00e1rate, translated from the Spanish (Mexico) by David Bowles (Innsmouth Free Press, January 19)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A reimagining of Dracula\u2019s voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Mountains Oceans<\/span><\/em> Giants: An Epic of the 27th Century<\/em><\/span><\/a> by\u00a0Alfred Do\u0308blin, translated from the German by Chris Godwin (Galileo Publishers, January 21)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The 27th century: beleaguered elites decide to melt the Greenland icecap. Why? \u2013 to open up a new continent, for colonisation by the unruly masses. How? \u2013 by harvesting the primordial heat of the Earth from Iceland\u2019s volcanoes. Nature fights back, and it all goes horribly wrong\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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Robot<\/span><\/em> <\/a>by Adam Wisniewski-Snerg, translated from the Polish by ? (Penguin UK, January 28).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The first English-language publication of one of the greatest Polish science fiction novels of all time. Is BER-64 a human or a machine? As he navigates the corridors and locked rooms of a strange bunker, he must solve the mysteries of murderous doppelgangers, a slow-motion city on the verge of destruction, and ultimately, the all-powerful Mechanism itself\u2026Considered to be one of the most important and original Polish science fiction novels of all time but never before translated into English, Adam Wisniewski-Snerg\u2019s debut novel is a haunting and mind-bending masterpiece of philosophical enquiry that penetrates deep into the heart of what it means to be human.<\/span><\/p>\n

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ESSAYS\/ARTICLES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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REVIEWS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Sean Guynes reviews<\/strong><\/a> The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1<\/em> in WLT<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"George Henson reviews The Clerk<\/em> in WLT<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nicole Beck reviews<\/span> Creative Surgery<\/em> in Strange Horizons<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Karen Burnham reviews Creative Surgery<\/em> in Locus<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Daniel Haeusser reviews The Weight of Snow<\/em> on SFT<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Daniel Haeusser reviews Whiskey Tales <\/em>& Cruise of Shadows<\/em> on SFT<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SHORT STORIES “Chronotope” by Raul Ciannella, translated from the Italian by Rachel Cordasco (Ab Terra 2020, January 26). A small team enslaved to data entry roles by an AI system manages to break out by combining their \u201calienating habits,\u201d which allow them to work at super-fast speeds.         NOVELS The Route of<\/p>\n

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