The 20th century is littered with the corpses of International SF magazines. This might seem like a strange thing to say, but look at the SF landscape and you’ll see what I mean. Let’s start with the first attempt (that I know of): Frederik Pohl’s International Science Fiction (two issues, 1967-1968). Pohl, as I’ve been
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Small Planet: The SF in Translation Magazine ! Each issue will be available for free on this site. This publication will bring readers reports on the SF scene in other countries, reviews of older and newer SFT, interviews with translators, editors, and authors, stats, news, and more. The website
The SF in Translation Website After Ten Years I’ve written many times (see here and here, for instance) about why I started the SF in Translation (SFT) website in May 2016. I saw a gap in a field and decided to fill it with a website that would give readers useful information about the growing
translated from the Korean by Adrian Thieret Kaya Press, 2024 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library This collection of science fiction stories and a novel (itself made up of linked stories) has my brain reeling. Djuna is a master of complicated storytelling, where multiple characters and events and motivations
In my quest to find the origins of interest in SF in translation in the Anglophone world, I started reading SF criticism from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Eventually, I found myself reading James Blish’s More Issues at Hand: Critical Studies in Contemporary Science Fiction (1970), which then directed me to Damon Knight (translator, by
“The Scent of Memory” by Zhao Haihong, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Clarkesworld, May 1) “The Girl Who Stole Life” by Zhou Wen, translated from the Chinese by Xueting C. Ni (Asimov’s, May/June) Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Mónica Ojeda, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker (Coffee
translated from the Korean by Anton Hur original publication (in Korean): 2021 this edition: Vintage, 2023 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library I’ve been wanting to read Djuna’s stories and novels for a while now, since hard science fiction is my favorite subgenre, and I’ve read that Djuna’s work
translated from the Hebrew by Ira Moskowitz original publication (in Hebrew): 2011 this edition: St. Martin’s Press, 2018 grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore or library “First of all, you are secret agents…Your existence is regular and continuous, like any human being…with the help of the tools you receive in this
Check out my review of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume IV, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell (New Directions), over in Ancillary Review of Books! You can read my reviews of previous books in the series here, here, and here.
Congratulations to Hungarian author Anita Moskát and translator Austin Wagner for winning the BSFA award for Best Translated Short Fiction with “Liecraft” (Apex Magazine, October 2025)! Read this excellent story here.
