{"id":1844,"date":"2017-03-24T03:23:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T03:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2017-03-24T03:25:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T03:25:59","slug":"upcoming-polish-czech-and-russian-sf-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Polish, Czech, and Russian SF in Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of news came out this week regarding central and eastern European speculative fiction in English translation… keep ’em comin’ !<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The publisher Head of Zeus has acquired World English rights<\/a><\/span> to Polish author Jacek Dukaj’s thousand-page-long novel Ice<\/em>. The book “conjur[es] an alternate 20th<\/sup> Century, where Russia and half of Europe are locked in an eternal winter, where the laws of physics and even logic work differently.”<\/p>\n

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\"seiner\"<\/p>\n

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Czech sf author Hanu\u0161 Seiner’s novelette, Hexagrammaton<\/em>, translated by Julie <\/a><\/span>Nov\u00e1kov\u00e1<\/a><\/span>, <\/span><\/span><\/span>will be published on Tor.com May 10.<\/p>\n

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\"vita-nostra\"<\/p>\n

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Harper Voyager plans to publish Vita Nostra<\/em><\/a><\/span> by Sergey Dyachenko and Marina Shyrshova-Dyachenko, translated by Julia Hersey, in November of 2018. It’s been “described as ‘The Magicians<\/em> but set in a rural Russian technical college’… Alexandra (Sasha)\u00a0Samokhina is forced into a seemingly inconceivable situation: Against her will, she must enter the Institute of Special Technologies. A slightest misstep or failure at school\u2014and the students\u2019 loved ones pay a price. Governed by fear and coercion, Sasha will learn the meaning of the phrase ‘In the beginning was the word\u2026'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of news came out this week regarding central and eastern European speculative fiction in English translation… keep ’em comin’ !     The publisher Head of Zeus has acquired World English rights to Polish author Jacek Dukaj’s thousand-page-long novel Ice. The book “conjur[es] an alternate 20th Century, where Russia and half of Europe are<\/p>\n

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