I’m probably late to the party here, but I’ve discovered this fantastic site- The Short Story Project– that brings together talented writers, translators, critics, and others from around the world to give readers some of the best contemporary and classic short fiction out there. “And is there any speculative fiction on this site?” you might
French science fiction writer Gérard Klein has four novels available in English (all initially translated in the 1970s). An economist by profession, Klein is also an editor, anthologist, and critic. Starmasters’ Gambit, translated by C. J. Richards (DAW, 1973) The Mote in Time’s Eye, translated by Damon Knight and C. J. Richards (Black Coat Press,
Check out the Finnish-English Literary Translation Cooperative’s speculative fiction section, which includes summaries and review excerpts of several recent works of great SF in translation:
Contemporary Japanese Literature, run by Kathryn Hemmann is a fabulous resource, especially for all things Japanese SFT. Check it out! fantasy science fiction horror
Dalkey Archive Press Director: John O’Brien Editor: Nathan Redman Dalkey Archive Press publishes fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, specializing in lesser known, often avant-garde works. This year, Dalkey Archive Press is bringing out five works of sf in translation from: Israel, Argentina, Bolivia, Spain, and Serbia!
I’ve added a new page to this site that I’m calling “To Be Translated”: it’s a list of works of speculative fiction that have yet to be translated into English. Hopefully this list will lead to more translations! Let me know what I should add 🙂 https://www.sfintranslation.com/?page_id=1561
Recently, Read Paper Republic, which focuses on Chinese literature in translation, published a series called “Afterlives.” In these stories, “death is merely the beginning” and each is “populated with ghosts, memories, and otherworldly reincarnations.” Below are links to the stories, which are freely available: “Dragon Boat” by Ge Liang, translated by Karen Curtis
This is so great: “The following mini-stories, written mainly by undergrads in Tijuana, Baja California, were “performed” and given away as postcards and book separators to passersby waiting to cross the border from Mexico to the USA. All of the stories depict near-future scenarios for the border zone, and they were the beginning of a
Publisher: Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier “The Best in French Popular Literature” http://blackcoatpress.com/index.html A few of their forthcoming titles:
Ok, so I’m three years late to this party, but I recently devoured the six episodes of “Small Blue Planet,” hosted by Cheryl Morgan and produced by Karen Burnham via the Locus Roundtable blog. Each episode focuses on a different country and features two guests who discuss the speculative fiction and translation scenes in those
