New Directions, founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, publishes a wide range of literary fiction. They also bring us more speculative fiction in translation each year than any other publisher. Below is just a selection of their SFT titles.
SF2 Concatenation has featured this website and Small Planet: The SF in Translation Magazine in its news section. Check it out here!
Speculative Fiction in Translation from Around the World is out now from the University of Wales Press! It gives readers a comprehensive look at the speculative fiction that has been translated into English from more than forty languages over the past half century. Check it out!
Jean-Paul Garnier of Space Cowboy Books interviewed me for Vector about all things SF in translation. Check it out here!
Honford Star publishes translated literary fiction from East Asia. Since 2021, they’ve published a dozen works of speculative fiction in translation, including a series called “Lovecraft Reanimated.”
Check out Cyril Simsa’s essay on Czech author Eva Hauserová and the history of biopunk in the latest issue of Vector here.
“Raining out there” by Alexandra Senkevich, translated from the Russian by Ilse Meiler (World Literature Today, September) The Black Box: Stories by Mata Kastrisiou, translated from the Greek by Kostas Kaltsas (Arb Editions, September 1) Fierce and sophisticated, dark and dreamy, The Black Box is a collection of transgressive, poetic fiction by Mata Kastrisiou. Each
It’s time for some more Small Planet! Issue #2 is out now, filled with excellent pieces on everything from how to become an activist translator, to what it means that major genre awards are starting to include translation categories, to forthcoming books, books we want translated, Vintage SFT reviews, and more! Enjoy!
Two Lines Press is the publishing program of the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco. Their Calico series “curates collections of translated works that explore particular themes, regions, languages, historical moments, or literary styles.” The fifteen works of SFT they’ve published since 2010 have been translated from the Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish,
Launched in 2009 by Marc Lowenthal and Judy Feldmann, Wakefield Press is an “independent American publisher devoted to the translation of overlooked gems and literary oddities.” As of 2026, they’ve published almost two dozen prose works of speculative fiction in translation. * below are all first English editions FRENCH GERMAN DANISH JAPANESE
