translated by Chi-Young Kim original publication (in Korean): 2024 this edition: Unnamed Press, 2026 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library Lim Sunwoo’s With the Heart of a Ghost is the latest in a recent streak of Korean SFT that shows no signs of slowing down. Science fiction, fantasy, magical
Here’s my joint SFT review with Joachim Boaz over at Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations, this time on Herbert W. Franke’s “Slum” (1970, tr. 1973). Check it out here!
Check out my end-of-year review of some of my favorite SFT in the latest issue of Strange Horizons here.
translated by Maya Vinokour original publication (in Russian): 1989 (LF), 1972 (US) first English edition: 2020, Chicago Review Press grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library After reading the remarkable nested novel Lame Fate/Ugly Swans, I decided to make a list of the other Strugatsky works that I’ve read so
“Tomorrow’s Beautiful Dream” by Ju Chu, translated from the Chinese by Carmen Yiling Yan (Clarkesworld, January 1) “All My Birds“ by K.A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman (Asimov’s, January/February) Scorpions by Yumiko Kurahashi, translated from the Japanese by Michael Day (Wakefield Press, January 20) Yumiko Kurahashi’s 1968 novella Scorpions takes the form of
JANUARY “Tomorrow’s Beautiful Dream” by Ju Chu, translated from the Chinese Carmen Yiling Yan (Clarkesworld, January 1)
2025 has been a good year for SF in translation, with 88 novels and collections and 30 short stories from over two dozen unique languages and countries. See the charts below for a more in-depth look at the numbers. long-form SFT Korea, Japan – 10 (11.4%)Argentina – 7 (8.6)China- 5 (5.7%) Spanish -16 (18.2%)Korean, Japanese
This website began with a list. Back in 2014, when I began reviewing SFT for John DeNardo’s SF Signal, I realized that there were more works of genre in translation than I had ever realized. Being me, I started a list. Lists, I suppose, are a way of bringing order to the world and to
Artificial Truth by J. M. Lee, translated from the Korean by Sean Lin Halbert (Amazon Crossing, December 1) In the virtual city of Alegria, fantasies are made real, innumerable lifetimes are lived, and even death itself is a survivable experience. An escape from reality that changed the landscape of artificial intelligence, it is home to
Contents: “Introduction” by Raechel Dumas “A Cultural Dynasty of Beautiful Vampires: Japan’s acceptance, Modifications, and Adaptations of Vampires” by Shimokusu Masaya “Blue Lady” by Inoue Masahiko, tr. Neil Webb “Kingdom” by Asukabe Katsunori, tr. Laura Wolly Dominguez “The Stone Castle” by Kikuchi Hideyuki, tr. Jonathan Bunt “The One-Legged Woman” by Okamoto Kido, tr. Neil Webb
