2017 has been a fantastic year for SFT! With novels and stories from Japan to Slovakia, there’s no shortage of wonderful things to read.
Standalone Short SFT
total: 73
Chinese- 14 (19.4%) (China, Hong Kong)
published in Clarkesworld, seat14c.com, Anomaly 25, LARB China Channel, Read Paper Republic
Spanish- 11 (15.3%) (Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru)
published in The Short Story Project, World Literature Today, Strange Horizons, Samovar, Litro Magazine, Anomaly 25, Words Without Borders
French- 10 (13.9%) (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland, UK)
published in Nature, Weird Fiction Review, Vice.com, Compelling Science Fiction, Anomaly 25, Galaxy’s Edge
Italian– 6 (8.3%)
published in Clarkesworld, Guernica, Anomaly 25, The Dark, Samovar
German- 5 (6.9%)
published in Weird Fiction Review, The Short Story Project, Anomaly 25
Arabic (Egypt, Iraq, Syria), Finnish- 4 each (5.6% each)
Arabic published in World Literature Today, Bookanista, Strange Horizons, Samovar
Finnish published in Finnish Weird #4, Samovar
Hebrew, Russian- 3 each (4.2% each)
Hebrew published in The Short Story Project, Samovar
Russian published in The Short Story Project, Apex
Czech, Japanese, Swedish- 2 each (2.8% each)
Czech published in Mithila Review, Strange Horizons
Japanese published in The Verge, Haikasoru.com
Swedish published in StarShipSofa, Samovar
Greek, Korean, Norwegian, Pashto, Romanian, Turkish- 1 each (1.4% each)
Greek published in Samovar
Korean published in Anomaly 25
Norwegian published in Words Without Borders
Pashto published in Samovar
Romanian published in Samovar
Turkish published in Words Without Borders
Clarkesworld– 11 (15.3%)
Samovar– 10 (13.9%)
Anomaly 25, The Short Story Project– 9 each (12.5% each)
Finnish Weird #4, Strange Horizons, Weird Fiction Review, Words Without Borders, World Literature Today– 3 each (4.2% each)
Apex, Vice.com– 2 each (2.8% each)
Bookanista, Compelling Science Fiction, Galaxy’s Edge, Guernica, Haikasoru.com, LARB China Channel, Litro Magazine, Mithila Review, Nature, Read Paper Republic, seat14c.com, StarShipSofa, The Dark, The Verge– 1 each (1.4% each)
Novels, Collections, Anthologies
French, Spanish- 11 each (15.1% each)
Japanese- 10 (13.7%)
Italian- 5 (6.8%)
Finnish, Serbian- 4 each (5.5% each)
Arabic, Chinese, German, Swedish- 3 each (4.1% each)
Czech, Korean, Polish, Russian, Slovakian- 2 each (2.7% each)
Afrikaans, Danish, French & Spanish, Norwegian, Romanian, Romanian- 1 each (1.4% each)
novels- 53 (72.6%)
Japanese (8), French (8), Spanish (6), Italian (5), German (3), Swedish (3), Arabic (2), Finnish (2), Korean (2), Polish (2), Russian (2), Serbian (2), Afrikaans (1), Chinese (1), Czech (2), Danish (1), Norwegian (1), Romanian (1), Slovakian (1)
collections- 15 (20.5%)
Spanish (4), French (3), Japanese (2), Serbian (2), Arabic (1), Chinese (1), French & Spanish (1), Slovakian (1)
anthologies- 5 (6.8%)
Finnish (2), Tamil (1), Spanish (1), Chinese (1)
Total short SFT (standalone stories + stories in collections/anthologies)
2017: 133
2016: 105
2015: 89
2014: 53
2013: 86
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