JANUARY<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Salt in Her Kiss\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Malena Salazar Maci\u00e1, translated from the Spanish by ? (The Future Fire<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMemoir of a Turkey\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/a> by Gustavo Adolfo B\u00e9cquer, translated from the Spanish by Kayla Andrews (Asymptote Journal<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In which a dead turkey\u2019s innards yield a packet of papers, which turn out to be the turkey\u2019s own memoir.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201c<\/span>The Perfect Sail\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>by I-Hyeong Yun<\/span>, translated from the Korean by <\/strong>Elisa Sinn and Justin Howe (Clarkesworld Magazine<\/em>).<\/strong> A woman seeks to absorb all other versions of herself living in other dimensions in order to achieve perfection; she\u2019s thwarted, however, by a minuscule yet courageous version who refuses to be absorbed upon the latter\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cThe Ancestral Temple in a Box\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/a> by Chen Qiufan<\/span>, translated from the Chinese by <\/strong>Emily Jin (Clarkesworld Magazine<\/em>).<\/strong> A father inspires his son to bring an ancient art into the future via virtual reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cEleos\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Micha\u0142 Sosi\u0144ski, translated from the Polish by Kate Webster (Przekr\u00f3j<\/em>).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Other Woman\u201d <\/span><\/strong><\/a>by Bibiana Camacho, translated from the Spanish by Cecilia Weddell (World Literature Today<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n While riding the metro, a woman looks at her reflection and sees a face that isn\u2019t her own. The chaos happening outside of her stalled train mirrors the woman\u2019s fear and panic at this strange change to her appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n FEBRUARY<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEyes of the Crocodile\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Malena Salazar Maci\u00e1, translated from the Spanish by ? (Clarkesworld Magazine<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Nanobots of various types rebel against their human hosts and one woman takes it upon herself to bring them back into line and save herself in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n MARCH<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Task Lamp\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/a> by Bruce Sterling, translated from the Italian by the author (Medium<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n After a plague kills off most of the world\u2019s population, the survivors eventually learn to live without smart technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n APRIL<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThree Expeditions\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Dennis Mombauer, translated from the German by Olivia Hofer (Three Crows Magazine<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A story of three expeditions that set out simultaneously to different places (mountain, well, and river), which all promise something, but eventually begin to blur into each other and shift as the expeditions close in on their destination.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cThe Green Hills of Dimitry Totzkiy\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Eldar Safin, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Samovar<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n An allegorical tale about a man who commits suicide and turns into a demiurge who creates a new world (from which sprouts alternate worlds).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cDebtless\u201d<\/span><\/a> by<\/span> Chen Qiufan, translated from the Chinese by <\/span>Blake Stone-Banks (Clarkesworld Magazine<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In the future, debt has been encoded in humanity\u2019s DNA, and a group of clones has been sent into space to mine asteroids to pay off their own debt.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n MAY<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTwo Moons\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/a> by Elena Pavlova, translated from the Bulgarian by Kalin M. Nenov and Elena Pavlova (Compelling Science Fiction<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A young girl struggles to survive a coming-of-age trial outside the giant extra-terrestrial organism in which she lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Excerpt from Vagabonds<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span> by Hao Jingfang, translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu (LitHub<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Language Sheath\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Regina Kanyu Wang, translated from the Chinese by Emily Jin and Regina Kanyu Wang (Clarkesworld Magazine<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A language instructor works with a machine translation company to produce a \u201clanguage sheath\u201d that automatically (and impeccably) translates between English and Kemorean (a dying language). This work, though, highlights the linguistic and cultural tensions between her and her son.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n JUNE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cZoo Syndrome\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Sadaa al-Daas, translated from the Arabic by Omar Qaqish (World Literature Today<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A story reminiscent of Kafka\u2019s \u201cThe Metamorphosis,\u201d in which a man awakens to find that he and everyone around him have transformed into different animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cThe Fastener\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Natsumi Tanaka, translated from the Japanese by ? (Daily Science Fiction<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCousin Entropy\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Mich\u00e8le Laframboise, translated from the French by N. R. M. Roshak (Future Science Fiction Digest<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The universe slowly dies, only to give birth to a new one.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n JULY<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFlickers of Light\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Yasumi Tsuhara, translated from the Japanese by ? (Asymptote Journal<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Curtain Falls, the Show Must End\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Julie Nov\u00e1kov\u00e1, translated from the Czech by the author (Samovar<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A ghost inhabits a theatre after being summoned by one of the actors; takes place on the eve of World War Two and includes historical figures like Max Brod and Paul Eger.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cHummingbird\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Eisuke Aikawa, translated from the Japanese by ? (Samovar<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFloating Life\u201d<\/span><\/a> (excerpt from Beloved Wife, Part 2<\/em>) by Kai-Cheung Dung, translated from the Chinese (Hong Kong) by Andrea Lingenfelter (Chinese Literature Today<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Affair\u201d (the first of the Hamlet Trilogy)<\/span><\/a> by Isaac (Shuntang) Hsu, translated from the Chinese (Taiwan) by Tze-lan Deborah Sang and Isaac (Shuntang) Hsu (Chinese Literature Today<\/em>). <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201ca short story that deals with poignant questions of morality and humanity raised by the development of artificial intelligence. The underlying concept of the story strongly resonates with that of Isaac Asimov\u2019s Three Laws of Robotics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cLetter to My Daughter\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Cixin Liu, translated from the Chinese by Jesse Field (Chinese Literature Today<\/em>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In which the narrator imagines that his daughter is reading a letter he wrote two hundred years before, where he speculates about what the 23rd century must be like.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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