{"id":1068,"date":"2016-09-18T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2016-09-18T18:29:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:29:34","slug":"samovar-a-new-imprint-for-speculative-fiction-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Samovar: A New Imprint For Speculative Fiction in Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sh_head-300x50.gif\" alt=\"sh_head\" width=\"300\" height=\"50\" \/>You may have read the recent <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/index.shtml\"><em>Strange Horizons <\/em><\/a><\/span>editorial in which editor Niall Harrison announces, as part of the magazine&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/2016\/20160912\/fund-e.shtml\">fund drive<\/a><\/span>, the publication of <em>Samovar<\/em>, an imprint that will focus on sf in translation. Here&#8217;s the announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;we&#8217;re delighted to announce a partnership with the proposed Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy and with University of Leeds&#8217;s &#8220;Reading the Fantastic&#8221; project to host Samovar, an imprint of <cite>Strange Horizons<\/cite> that will focus on speculative fiction in translation. If we raise US$18,000, we&#8217;ll publish an inaugural special issue at the end of October, focusing on SF from Spain, to tie in with this year&#8217;s Eurocon in Barcelona. If we raise US$21,000, we&#8217;ll be able to make Samovar a regular part of the magazine, with new issues at least twice per year. Samovar will pay 6 cents per word each to authors and translators, and will accept submissions of proposed, partial, and completed translations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this is great news! I look forward to their first issue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have read the recent Strange Horizons editorial in which editor Niall Harrison announces, as part of the magazine&#8217;s fund drive, the publication of Samovar, an imprint that will focus on sf in translation. Here&#8217;s the announcement: &#8230;we&#8217;re delighted to announce a partnership with the proposed Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=1068\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[179,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}