{"id":9947,"date":"2020-01-02T23:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T23:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=9947"},"modified":"2021-01-03T00:31:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T00:31:17","slug":"sft-2019-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=9947","title":{"rendered":"SFT 2019 Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"While SFT comes to us from many different languages and nations, some continue to dominate year after year (Japanese, French, and Spanish). Japanese SFT made up the largest book-length chunk in 2019 (22.2%), with\u00a0French (15.6%) and German (13.3%) coming in second and third, respectively. Short fiction, however, was dominated by Spanish (21.7%) stories, followed by Chinese (15.7%), and Korean (14.5%). We can specifically thank Clarkesworld <\/em>for the steady run of Chinese and Korean short SFT; Samovar <\/em>and Future Science Fiction Digest<\/em>, both relatively new publications dedicated to international speculative fiction, have brought us stories translated from the Italian, Russian, Swedish, and Chinese. The Dark Magazine <\/em>has dedicated itself to regularly publishing Spanish SFT, which can also often be found in the pages of Latin American Literature Today<\/em>. In fact, SFT can be found in many diverse places, from major presses to major SF magazines and everywhere in between.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Standalone Short SFT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

total: 84<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Spanish- 18<\/strong> (21.7%) (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay)<\/span><\/p>\n

published in Menacing Hedge, Big Echo, Cascadia Subduction Zone, Bewildering Stories, The Dark, Teleport Magazine, SFinTranslation.com, The Short Story Project, World Literature Today, Clarkesworld, Words Without Borders, Mithila Review<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chinese- 13<\/strong> (15.7%)<\/span><\/p>\n

published in Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, Future Science Fiction Digest, Slate<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Korean- 12<\/strong> (14.5%)<\/span><\/p>\n

published in Nabillera, Guernica, Clarkesworld, Words Without Borders, Samovar<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Japanese- 7<\/strong> (8.4%)<\/span><\/p>\n

published in SFinTranslation.com, CommuterLit, Fanzine, Aphelion, Delos, HistoryRadio.org, Unfit Magazine<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Russian and Italian- 6 each<\/strong> (7.2% each)<\/span><\/p>\n

Russian published in Future Science Fiction Digest, Samovar, Amazing Stories, F&SF<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Italian published in Unreal Magazine, World Literature Today, Words Without Borders, Future Science Fiction Digest<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Portuguese- 4<\/strong> (4.8%)<\/span><\/p>\n

published in Idle Ink, Samovar, unfading daydream, Teleport Magazine<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Romanian- 3<\/strong> (3.6%)<\/span><\/p>\n

published in Apex Magazine, SFinTranslation.com, Teleport Magazine<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, Polish- 2 each<\/strong> (2.4%)<\/span><\/p>\n

Arabic published in The Short Story Project, Samovar<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Bulgarian published in InTranslation, Future Science Fiction Digest<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Dutch published in Unfit Magazine, Samovar<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Polish published in Hazlitt, Przekr\u00f3j<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Belarusian, French, Indonesian, Swedish, Yiddish- 1 each<\/strong> (1.2% each)<\/span><\/p>\n

Belarusian published in Przekr\u00f3j<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

French published in Words Without Borders<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Indonesian published in Words Without Borders<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Swedish published in Future Science Fiction Digest<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Yiddish published in In geveb<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Clarkesworld<\/em>– 16<\/strong> (19.3%)<\/span>
\nFuture Science Fiction Digest-<\/em> 9<\/strong> (10.8%)<\/span>
\nWords Without Borders<\/em>– 8<\/strong> (9.6%)<\/span>
\nSamovar-<\/em> 6<\/strong> (7.2%)<\/span>
\nSFinTranslation.com<\/em>– 4<\/strong> (4.8%)<\/span>
\nWorld Literature Today, Teleport, The Dark- <\/em>3 each<\/strong> (3.6% each)<\/span>
\nBewildering Magazine, Przekr\u00f3j, The Short Story Project, Unfit Magazine<\/em>– 2 each<\/strong> (2.4%)<\/span>
\nAmazing Stories, Apex, Aphelion, Asimov’s, Big Echo, Cascadia Subduction Zone, CommuterLit, Delos, F&SF, Fanzine, Guernica, Hazlitt, HistoryRadio.org, Idle Ink, In geveb, InTranslation, Menacing Hedge, Mithila Review, Nabillera, Slate, The Shadow Booth, unfading daydream, Unreal Magazine<\/em>– 1 each<\/strong> (1.2%)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Novels, Collections, Anthologies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Japanese- 10<\/strong> (22.2%)<\/span>
\nFrench- 7<\/strong> (15.6%)<\/span>
\n German- 6<\/strong> (13.3%)<\/span>
\nChinese- 5<\/strong> (11.1%)<\/span>
\nKorean- 3<\/strong> (6.7%)<\/span>
\nHebrew- 2<\/strong> (4.4%)<\/span>
\nArabic, Bengali, Croatian, Czech, Finnish, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian- 1 each<\/strong> (2.2%)<\/span><\/p>\n

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novels: 37<\/strong> (60.7%)
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Japanese (7), Spanish (5),\u00a0Chinese (4), French (4), German (4), Portuguese (2), Arabic (1), Bengali (1), Czech (1), Finnish (1), Hebrew (1), Icelandic (1), Korean (1), Norwegian (1), Russian (1), Swedish (1), Tamil (1)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

collections: 15<\/strong> (24.6%)
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French (4), German (2), Spanish (2), Croatian (1), Hebrew (1), Italian (1), Japanese (1), Korean (1), Slovakian (1), Telugu (1)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

anthologies: 9<\/strong> (14.8%)
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Various (4), Japanese (2), Chinese (1), Korean (1), Romanian (1)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Total short SFT (standalone stories + stories in collections\/anthologies)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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2019: 169<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2018: 185<\/span><\/p>\n

2017: 133<\/span><\/p>\n

2016: 105<\/span><\/p>\n

2015: 89<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While SFT comes to us from many different languages and nations, some continue to dominate year after year (Japanese, French, and Spanish). Japanese SFT made up the largest book-length chunk in 2019 (22.2%), with\u00a0French (15.6%) and German (13.3%) coming in second and third, respectively. Short fiction, however, was dominated by Spanish (21.7%) stories, followed by<\/p>\n

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