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<\/figure>Artificial Truth<\/a><\/em> by J. M. Lee, translated from the Korean by Sean Lin Halbert (Amazon Crossing, December 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 more than one hundred million people. Though it’s been six years since Alegria’s creator–revolutionary tech genius KC Kim–died of cancer, his legacy is alive in the pinnacle of KC’s genius: an AI named Allen who surges with KC’s memories. As hard as KC’s widow, Minju, and her new husband, Junmo, try to move on, Minju can’t shake the unnerving feeling that somehow, from somewhere, KC is watching. She sees a stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance to him. A pair of KC’s custom-made shoes arrive at her doorstep. And someone has booked a Tokyo hotel room where she and KC shared happier times. Certain of nothing except KC’s mad innovation, Minju can only imagine what he is accomplishing without even existing. If KC is reaching out from an infinity of memories, what are his plans for Minju and Junmo, and how can they hope to escape KC’s all-seeing grasp? And whose plans are they, really? The possibilities are frightening.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n The story of an Indigenous girl\u2019s kidnapping during a colonial expedition intertwines with a young woman\u2019s modern-day search for identity and ancestral truths.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Everything you were afraid to find out about the heat of noon and grandma\u2019s old tales comes together in this English language debut of an award-winning and bestselling young Russian writer.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n House of Day, House of Night <\/a><\/em>by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Riverhead Books, December 2)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There\u2019s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There\u2019s the man whose death \u2013 with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech\u2014was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history, but a cosmology.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n REVIEWS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Midnight Shift<\/a><\/em> in Locus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Wax Child<\/a><\/em> in Locus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Deep Forest<\/a><\/em> in Strange Horizons<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/verunschk-678x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>The Jaguar’s Roar<\/em><\/a> by Micheliny Verunschk, translated from the Portuguese (Brazil) by Juliana Barbassa (Liveright, December 2)<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>The Village at the Edge of Noon<\/a><\/em> by Darya Bobyleva, translated from the Russian by Ilona Chavasse (Angry Robot, December 2)<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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