{"id":8480,"date":"2020-06-15T13:49:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=8480"},"modified":"2020-06-15T13:49:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:49:18","slug":"icelandic-sft-sjon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=8480","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic SFT: Sj\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Whispering Muse<\/em><\/span><\/a>, translated by Victoria Cribb (Telegram, 2012).<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilization, has had the extraordinary good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the second mate. Every evening after dinner he entrances his fellow travelers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel the Argo <\/em>on its quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. What unfolds is a slender but masterful, brilliant, and always entertaining novel that ranges deftly from the comic to the mythic as it weaves together tales of antiquity with the modern world in a voice so singular as to seem possessed.”<\/p>\n

Review:<\/strong> Leah Schnelbach on Tor.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"CoDex 1962<\/em><\/span><\/a>, translated by Victoria Cribb (FSG, 2018).<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Josef L\u00f6we, the narrator, was born in 1962\u2014the same year, the same moment even, as Sj\u00f3n. Josef’s story, however, stretches back decades in the form of Leo L\u00f6we\u2014a Jewish fugitive during World War II who has an affair with a maid in a German inn; together, they form a baby from a piece of clay. If the first volume is a love story, the second is a crime story: L\u00f6we arrives in Iceland with the clay-baby inside a hatbox, only to be embroiled in a murder mystery\u2014but by the end of the volume, his clay son has come to life. And in the final volume, set in present-day Reykjav\u00edk, Josef’s story becomes science fiction as he crosses paths with the outlandish CEO of a biotech company (based closely on reality) who brings the story of genetics and genesis full circle. But the future, according to Sj\u00f3n, is not so dark as it seems. In CoDex 1962<\/i>, Sj\u00f3n has woven ancient and modern material and folklore and cosmic myths into a singular masterpiece\u2014encompassing genre fiction, theology, expressionist film, comic strips, fortean studies, genetics, and, of course, the rich tradition of Icelandic storytelling.”<\/p>\n

Review:<\/strong> Rachel Cordasco on Strange Horizons<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Whispering Muse, translated by Victoria Cribb (Telegram, 2012). “The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilization, has had the extraordinary good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the<\/p>\n

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