Speculative Fiction in Translation – Page 19 – Your guide to speculative fiction from around the world

Romanian SFT

By Rachel CordascoDecember 31, 2020Uncategorized

Overview Anthologies (Part I) Review of Twelve Anthologies (Part II) Anthologies (Part III) Novels Collections Eliade To Be Translated

Polish SFT

By Rachel CordascoDecember 31, 2020Uncategorized

Overview Polish SFT anthologies Witold Gombrowicz Stanisław Lem Olga Tokarczuk Andrzej Sapkowsi Jacek Dukaj, Marek Huberath, Bruno Jasieński, Czeslaw Milosz Bruno Schulz Stefan Grabiński

Nordic SFT

By Rachel CordascoDecember 31, 2020Uncategorized

Overview Danish Finnish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

2020

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Review: Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

By Rachel CordascoDecember 29, 20201 commentreviewArkady and Boris Strugatsky, Chicago Review Press, Olena Bormashenko, Russia, Russian

translated from the (uncensored) Russian by Olena Bormashenko (censored version originally translated into English by Antonina L. Bouis, 1977) Chicago Review Press May 1, 2012 224 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore The great thing about Strugatsky novels is that they’re all brilliant in their own unique ways. The Dead

New Brazilian SFT Magazine

By Rachel CordascoDecember 26, 2020newsBrazil, Eita! Magazine

Check out the first issue of Eita! Magazine, which offers readers exciting new SFT from Brazil. I’m honored to have been asked to write the foreword for the first issue. Stories are from Isabor Quintiere (@iquintiere), Miguel Dracul (@MiguelDracul), Laís Dias (@oslivrosdalis), Thiago Ambrósio (@thamblage), and a secret author.

Out This Month: December

By Rachel CordascoDecember 3, 2020out this monthAndy Dudak, Chi Hui, China, Chinese, Clarkesworl Magazine, Dai Da, Emily Balistrieri, Frederika Randall, Future Science Fiction Digest, Gu Shi, Guido Morselli, Italian, Italy, Judith Huang, Ken Liu, Kim Bo-Young, NYRB, S. Qiouyi Lu, Sophie Bowman, Taiyo Fujii, Valancourt Books, Wei Ma, Wu Guan

SHORT STORIES “No Way Back” by Chi Hui, translated from the Chinese by John Chu (Clarkesworld, December 1). “Rœsin” by Wu Guan, translated from the Chinese by Judith Huang (Future Science Fiction Digest–East Asia Special Issue, December) “Raising Mermaids” by Dai Da, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu

Fiction: “Lipstick” by Michael Haulică

By Rachel CordascoNovember 27, 2020FictionAdriana Mosoiu, Michael Haulică, Romania, Romanian

This is an updated and edited version of Romanian sf author Michael Haulică’s story “Lipstick,” originally translated by Adriana Mosoiu (2003). Before we get to the story, though, read this brief piece from Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews on Haulică and the story’s previous publications: “I am certain that plenty of Romanian writers can make an

Review: Okamoto Kidō: Master of the Uncanny

By Rachel CordascoNovember 22, 20201 commentreviewJapan, Japanese, Kurodahan Press, Nancy H. Ross, Okamoto Kidō

translated from the Japanese by Nancy H. Ross Kurodahan Press October 10, 2020 168 pages grab a copy here or through your local independent bookstore Kurodahan Press has once again brought Anglophone readers a gem of a book. These short stories, written in the 1920s and 30s by “one of the founders of the