Tag Archives: Japanese

Review: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Volume 5: Mobilization by Yoshiki Tanaka

translated by Tyran Grillo Haikasoru November 21, 2017 272 pages grab a copy I’ve now read the first five books in the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, and I’m impressed by how well Tanaka controls the plot of this intergalactic war and its main participants across so many pages without the story unraveling (kind

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Flash Fiction From Around the World: “Micro-Novels”

This is the fourteenth in a series of posts featuring speculative flash fiction in translation. The series highlights both new and established spec fic writers from around the world. Yusaku Kitano (北野 勇作) won the 4th Japan Fantasy Novel Grand Prize in 1992 with Mukashi, Kasei no atta basho (Where Mars Used to Be), and

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Out This Month: November

“The Catalog of Virgins” by Nicoletta Vallorani, translated from the Italian by Rachel S. Cordasco (Clarkesworld)           “House Taken Over” by Yuri Herrera, translated from the Spanish by Lisa M. Dillman (Words Without Borders)     Malacqua by Nicola Pugliese, translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside (And Other Stories, November

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Out This Month: September

“Möbius Continuum” by Gu Shi, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu (Clarkesworld Magazine, September 1)         I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy (riverrun, September 7) “A supernatural superthriller from the author of Let the Right One In. Molly wakes her mother

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REVIEW: LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES VOLUME 4: STRATAGEM by Yoshiki Tanaka

translated by Tyran Grillo Haikasoru June 20, 2017 272 pages grab a copy “Stratagem” fits this fourth installment in the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series perfectly. After all, it’s what this particular chapter in the everlasting conflict between the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance is all about. How can the GE trick

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Review: LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES VOLUME 3: ENDURANCE by Yoshiki Tanaka

translated by Daniel Huddleston Haikasoru November 15, 2016 273 pages grab a copy In this third installment of his Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, Tanaka delivers the space battles, political maneuvering, and philosophical musings on war and power that we’ve come to expect. And yet, Endurance, like the volumes before it, is both a

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Out This Month: July

“An Age of Ice” by Zhang Ran, translated by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld Magazine, July 1)           Bullseye! by Yasutaka Tsutsui, translated by Andrew Driver (Kurodahan Press, July 11) “A new collection of stories by Yasutaka Tsutsui, famed in Japan and worldwide for his darkly humorous, satirical handling of a vast range

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