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<\/figure>“Tomorrow’s Beautiful Dream” <\/a>by Ju Chu, translated from the Chinese by Carmen Yiling Yan (Clarkesworld<\/em>, January 1)<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ASF-126-756x1024.png\")
<\/figure>\n“All My Birds“<\/em><\/a> by K.A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Asimov’s<\/em>, January\/February)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/trujillo.webp\")
<\/figure>\nPedro the Vast<\/a><\/em> by Sim\u00f3n L\u00f3pez Trujillo, translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Robin Myers (Algonquin Books, January 13)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIn the disorienting, devastatingly tense world of L\u00f3pez Trujillo, a eucalyptus farm worker named Pedro starts coughing. Several of his coworkers die of a strange fungal disease, which has jumped to humans for the first time, but Pedro, miraculously, awakes. His survival fascinates a foreign mycologist, as well as a local priest, who dubs his mysterious mutterings to be the words of a prophet. Meanwhile Pedro\u2019s kids are left to fend for themselves: the young Cata, whose creepy art projects are getting harder and harder to decipher, and Patricio, who wasn\u2019t ready to be thrust into the role of father. Their competing efforts to reckon with Pedro\u2019s condition eventually meet in a horrifying climax that readers will never forget.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\nScorpions<\/a><\/em> by Yumiko Kurahashi, translated from the Japanese by Michael Day (Wakefield Press, January 20)<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\nYumiko Kurahashi\u2019s 1968 novella Scorpions<\/em> takes the form of a transcript of a one-sided interview with L following the arrest and institutionalization of her twin brother K. The two have played a role in a series of horrifying deaths culminating in the murder of their mother. Through a first-person narrative that varies in tone from scientifically clinical to darkly humorous, mingling together references to the Bible and Greek mythology, odd bits of dialogue, and obtuse descriptions, we learn of K and L\u2019s shocking crimes, the gruesome plight of their religion-obsessed mother, and the professional and personal entanglement of L and an older man they call the RED PIG, their mother\u2019s former lover.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nREVIEWS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nLame Fate\/Ugly Swans<\/a><\/em> in SFinTranslation.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nMidnight Timetable<\/a><\/em> in World Literature Today<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nCounterweight<\/a><\/em> in Ancillary Review of Books<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nPlaying Wolf<\/a><\/em> in Locus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nWith the Heart of a Ghost<\/em> <\/a>in SFinTranslation.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nPedro the Vast<\/a><\/em> in Locus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nIce<\/a><\/em> in The Complete Review<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>“All My Birds“<\/em><\/a> by K.A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Asimov’s<\/em>, January\/February)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Pedro the Vast<\/a><\/em> by Sim\u00f3n L\u00f3pez Trujillo, translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Robin Myers (Algonquin Books, January 13)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the disorienting, devastatingly tense world of L\u00f3pez Trujillo, a eucalyptus farm worker named Pedro starts coughing. Several of his coworkers die of a strange fungal disease, which has jumped to humans for the first time, but Pedro, miraculously, awakes. His survival fascinates a foreign mycologist, as well as a local priest, who dubs his mysterious mutterings to be the words of a prophet. Meanwhile Pedro\u2019s kids are left to fend for themselves: the young Cata, whose creepy art projects are getting harder and harder to decipher, and Patricio, who wasn\u2019t ready to be thrust into the role of father. Their competing efforts to reckon with Pedro\u2019s condition eventually meet in a horrifying climax that readers will never forget.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Yumiko Kurahashi\u2019s 1968 novella Scorpions<\/em> takes the form of a transcript of a one-sided interview with L following the arrest and institutionalization of her twin brother K. The two have played a role in a series of horrifying deaths culminating in the murder of their mother. Through a first-person narrative that varies in tone from scientifically clinical to darkly humorous, mingling together references to the Bible and Greek mythology, odd bits of dialogue, and obtuse descriptions, we learn of K and L\u2019s shocking crimes, the gruesome plight of their religion-obsessed mother, and the professional and personal entanglement of L and an older man they call the RED PIG, their mother\u2019s former lover.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n REVIEWS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lame Fate\/Ugly Swans<\/a><\/em> in SFinTranslation.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Midnight Timetable<\/a><\/em> in World Literature Today<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Counterweight<\/a><\/em> in Ancillary Review of Books<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Playing Wolf<\/a><\/em> in Locus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n With the Heart of a Ghost<\/em> <\/a>in SFinTranslation.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pedro the Vast<\/a><\/em> in Locus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ice<\/a><\/em> in The Complete Review<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/figure>Scorpions<\/a><\/em> by Yumiko Kurahashi, translated from the Japanese by Michael Day (Wakefield Press, January 20)<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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