I have just spent a couple of months reading a handful of French sf in translation stories and novels, originally written between the late 1940s and 1970s, and translated into English between 1965 and 1975. This effort is part of a project I’m giving myself to read more deeply in the SFT of a variety
On Words Without Borders, author Intan Paramaditha and translators Stephen Epstein and Tiffany Tsao talk about Paramaditha’s Night of a Thousand Hells, which was shortlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Read it here.
Black Coat Press was started in 2003 by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier in order to bring popular French literature to Anglophone readers. Over the past twenty-plus years, Black Coat has published dozens of works of French SFT, and they’re still going strong.
Every creative work is influenced by its predecessors in some way. Fanzines are no exception. I’ve been communing with the fanzines on Fanac.com for months now and discovered a couple of magazines that kept readers updated on the world sf scene during the 1970s and 80s (and into the 2000s). Unless I find any magazines
“How Does One Person Kill a Mountain?” by Shi Heiyao, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld, October 1) Starblood by Nathalie Charles Henneberg, translated from the French by William Oarlock (Black Coat Press, October 1). Starblood is the colorful tale of a parallel medieval Earth featuring elementals and astronauts vying for the love of
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.”
