Czech Sci-Fi Indiegogo Campaign
Jan Kotouč, Czech author of sci-fi and alternate-history novels, is running an indiegogo campaign to cover the art, production, and translation into English of his Frontiers of the Imperium series. Check it out!
Jan Kotouč, Czech author of sci-fi and alternate-history novels, is running an indiegogo campaign to cover the art, production, and translation into English of his Frontiers of the Imperium series. Check it out!
Editor Sheldon Teitelbaum has been posting author bios for each of the contributors to the Zion’s Fiction anthology on facebook and kindly allowed me to collect them and repost them here. Enjoy, and don’t forget to grab a copy! Nitay Peretz was born in 1974 in Kibbutz Revivim, where he lives
A prolific sf author in his own right, Brian Stableford has also translated an astonishingly large number of works of early French speculative fiction for Black Coat Press. And when I say “astonishingly large,” I mean there are so many stories and novels that I’m just going to list a selection here. He’s also
I’ve added a page to this site called “Reading Wuxia and Xiania” for anyone interested in learning about popular Chinese fantasy in translation. Enjoy! And please let me know about any resources/titles/etc. to add.
Check out the new page on Stanislaw Lem and follow along as I read my way through every single one of his translated works!
Spanish SF in the 21st Century Mariano Villarreal translated by Ian Watson 1. A Brief Historical Sketch Spanish SF, Fantasy and Horror are almost unknown outside of Spain. To be sure, Spanish works are published in Latin American countries (and vice versa) since we speak the same language and share cultural references, and books get
Check out Strange Horizons‘ special issue on “SFF from the Arab League Community and Diaspora”
Check out the special issue on Spanish SF in the latest issue of Science Fiction Studies here.
Check out Scott Edelman’s podcast “Eating the Fantastic,” in which he shares a meal with writers and editors as they talk about science fiction, fantasy, horror, writing, comics, movies, fandom, and food. He’s recently spoken with speculative fiction writers from around the world, including Chen Quifan (Episode 49) and Johanna Sinisalo (Episode 48). Xia Jia
Clarkesworld Magazine has published more sf in translation over the past several years than any other speculative fiction magazine in the U.S. The stories it features- many from China, some from other countries- are some of the best stories you’ll read, translated or otherwise. Many thanks to editor Neil Clarke and translators Ken Liu, S.