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“How Does One Person Kill a Mountain?”<\/a> by Shi Heiyao, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld<\/em>, October 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Starblood<\/a><\/em> by Nathalie Charles Henneberg, translated from the French by William Oarlock (Black Coat Press, October 1)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starblood <\/em>is the colorful tale of a parallel medieval Earth featuring elementals and astronauts vying for the love of a Salamander; and The Lost Fortress<\/em>, set in 2400, is the story of a colony ship arriving at the haunted planet of Isis in Alpha Centauris. Combining classic French and Golden Age American SF reminiscent of Jack Williamson and Robert Heinlein, with \u201cOld World\u201d literature, sagas and epics, her writing precedes the \u201cNew Wave\u201d of the 1960s and later mythopoetic space operas by Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, C.J. Cherryh, Philip Jose Farmer and Joan D. Vinge. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Night of a Thousand Hells <\/a><\/em>by Intan Paramaditha, translated from the Indonesian by Stephen Epstein and Tiffany Tsao (Europa Editions, October 6)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

International literary sensation Intan Paramaditha returns with her most ambitious and haunting work to date. The novel opens with a devastating act: the youngest of three sisters becomes a suicide bomber. In the aftermath, her surviving siblings are forced to confront the violent, buried truths of their family history. Their search leads them to long-concealed secrets, and to the prophecies of their grandmother, whose shadowy wisdom has shaped their fates. Set across Indonesia, the United States, and Australia, the novel explores class divides, sisterhood, migration, shame, abandonment, and the politics of care\u2014all through a ghostly, atmospheric lens that draws on Asian folktales and occult traditions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pan<\/a><\/em> by Francesco Dimitri, translated from the Italian by Sophia McDougall (Tor Books, October 13)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Butcher meets Claire North in this brutal modern Italian retelling of the story of Peter Pan, now in English for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Don\u2019t Leave Her Alone<\/a><\/em> by Desir\u00e9e de Fez, translated from the Spanish (Spain) by Lizzie Davis (G. P. Putnam\u2019s Sons, October 13)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haunting, cinematic, and strikingly visceral, Don\u2019t Leave Her Alone<\/em> is an incisive exploration of motherhood that interrogates women\u2019s struggle for autonomy and identity, and ultimately forces the question: What does it take to finally break free?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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To Bewitch a Hunter<\/a><\/em> by Luciano Lamberti, translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Frank Wynne (HarperVia, October 13)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An award-winning novel from Argentina that begins when an adopted woman is approached by someone claiming to know what happened to her real parents\u2014an encounter that triggers a hallucinatory odyssey into the dark years of dictatorship and a family history of disappearances and blood sacrifice.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Horde of the Counterwind<\/a><\/em> by Alain Damasio, translated from the French by Alexander Dickow (Abrams Press, October 13)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

France\u2019s defining fantasy\/science fiction odyssey of the 21st century, the basis of the award-winning video game Expedition 33 and now published in English for the first time, celebrates twenty-three brave warriors of the wind.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Man with Many Names<\/a><\/em> by Georgi Gospodinov, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel (Liveright, October 13)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written over three decades, The Man with Many Names<\/em> gathers the best of renowned author Georgi Gospodinov\u2019s short fiction into a single new volume. Exhibiting the author at his most playful and profound, the collection captures the peculiarities of existence across forty-one tales set in and around his beloved Bulgaria: In \u201cA Second Story,\u201d strangers pass their time on a train through the Balkans telling stories only to be lost in translation; in \u201cThe Late Gift,\u201d an unhoused man becomes convinced he\u2019s on television one frigid New Year\u2019s Eve; and in \u201cBlind Vaysha,\u201d a sightless woman can see into the past and future\u2013one through each eye. Haunting these pages is a flaneur named Gaustine, a familiar trickster known to longtime Gospodinov fans.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Laplace\u2019s Witch<\/a><\/em> by Keigo Higashino, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Paul (Avocado House, October 13)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two people die in hot spring towns in different parts of Japan from hydrogen sulfide poisoning. Investigating the case is geochemist Shusuke Aoe, who witnessed the same mysterious girl, Madoka, at both crime scenes \u2026 A sci-fi mystery that challenges established norms of the genre, written by acclaimed author Keigo Higashino.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Paradise Burns<\/a><\/em> by Pol Guasch, translated from the Catalan (Spain) by Mara Faye Lethem (FSG, October 20)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Rita and L\u00edton meet at a party, they quickly form a bond that will indelibly shape their lives. Theirs is not an easy world: most wildlife is extinct and the earth is tormented by drought and floods; the last vestiges of natural life are kept under lock and key in a mysterious greenhouse a day\u2019s travel away. Like the other young men of the Service, L\u00edton is frequently enlisted to put out the seemingly never-ending fires that tear through the valley; Rita lives perched on a hill in the Colony, where other men, including her father, empty an almost barren mine. Yet their bond grounds them. They navigate the love affairs, setbacks, and thwarted idealism of their twenties together, finding in each other a vital reprieve for their disillusionment\u2014that is, until L\u00edton, like other gay men, falls deathly sick.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Thousands of Eyes<\/a><\/em> by Maximiliano Barrientos, translated from the Spanish (Bolivia) by Thomas Bunstead (Counterpoint, October 27)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mad Max meets J.G. Ballard in this gonzo, maximalist, high-octane speculative horror novel set against a post-apocalyptic Bolivia in thrall to a speed-worshiping cult.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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