This is a guest post by Marie Cloutier. Check out her website, The Boston Bibliophile, and follow her on twitter @MarieKCloutier. translated by Lola Rogers Grove Press, Black Cat January 5, 2016 304 pages James Tiptree Jr. Award-winner Johanna Sinisalo takes us on a trip through a reimagined modern day Finland in The Core
translated by William A. Lyell Penguin Modern Classics orig. 1932; December 1, 2015 240 pages Prophetic and profoundly disturbing, Cat Country is Lao She’s dark speculative satire about one man’s experience with a species of cat-people living on Mars. While on the surface, the story is about the wholesale corruption of Cat society (social,
Julien Wacquez is a PhD student in sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. His research focuses on the manner in which science fiction authors lean on scientific knowledge already established to shape their stories, and also on the way these stories pose problems that are expected to be solved through
translated by Kieren Bailey Acheron Books July 25, 2015 184 pages I’ll tell you what’s been missing from your life: an Italian historical fantasy set in 13th-century Florence about longstanding family feuds and the spirits that guide them. That’s right. Eternal War: Armies of Saints weaves together Italian history, Christian figures, poetry (Dante makes
The people behind the French spec fic magazine Angle Mort are expanding their vision to include French works in English with the following goals in mind: “(1) Bolster the ties between French and American science fiction, by launching a new magazine that translates French stories into English. We think that French science fiction is rich from
translated by Nick Caistor Restless Books July 12, 2016 544 pages The Year 200 has been compared to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and rightly so, but de Rojas takes the idea of “body snatching” to an entirely new level. Let me explain. The people of Earth are living under the Communist Federation, which
There’s a LOT of great stuff out this year from Restless Books, Haikasoru, Aqueduct, and more: check it out!
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Award-winning Spanish author Elia Barceló writes both science fiction and children’s books. Born in Alicante, she currently lives in Austria where she teaches Spanish literature. Her story “The Star” was included in the anthology Castles in Spain and her novel Heart of Tango was translated into English in 2010. Rachel Cordasco: When did
translated by Lola M. Rogers Pushkin Press January 20, 2015 352 pages I must admit, I was hoping that the mysterious woman at the heart of this novel turned out to be a dimension-shifting alien robot. And who knows, she might have been. But I’m jumping ahead of myself. I’ve never read anything quite
