Daniel Huddleston – Speculative Fiction in Translation

LoGH on Locus

By Rachel CordascoMarch 10, 2020reviewDaniel Huddleston, Haikasoru, Japan, Japanese, Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, Matt Treyvaud, Tyran Grillo, Yoshiki Tanaka

Check out my essay on the entire Legend of the Galactic Heroes series for the Locus Roundtable here.

Horror in Translation in World Literature Today

By Rachel CordascoJanuary 7, 2019list, SFT recs, spotlightAhmed Saadawi, Arabic, Bosnia, Bosnian, Coral Petkovich, Daniel Huddleston, Dempow Torishima, Haikasoru, Iraq, Istros Books, Japan, Japanese, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Jonathan Wright, Marlaine Delargy, Penguin, riverrun, Selvedin Avdić, Sweden, Swedish

I wrote about horror in translation for World Literature Today‘s “What to Read Now” feature: check it out! –

Review: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Volume 7: Tempest by Yoshiki Tanaka

By Rachel CordascoOctober 11, 2018reviewDaniel Huddleston, Haikasoru, Japan, Japanese, Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, Yoshiki Tanaka

translated by Daniel Huddleston Haikasoru August 21, 2018 254 pages grab a copy * here be spoilers! In this latest installment in the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, Tanaka picks up the pace once again, offering readers space battles, tactical trickery, and meditations on what it takes to be a “successful” ruler. And, of

Out This Month: August

By Rachel CordascoAugust 3, 2018out this monthAlgeria, Apex Publications, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Brazil, Cadmus Press, Carme Torras, Catalan, Catalonia, Chicago Review Press, China, Chinese, Cixin Liu, Clarkesworld Magazine, Daniel Huddleston, Fabio Fernandes, Francesco Verso, French, Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro, Haikasoru, Hao Jingfang, Italian, Italy, J. D. Wisgo, Japan, Japanese, Joel Martinsen, Ken Liu, Nadia Ghanem, Olena Bormashenko, Piero Schiavo Campo, Portugal, Portuguese, Russia, Russian, Safia Ketou, Sally McCorry, Sara Martín, Sarah Jane Webb, Serbia, Serbian, Tamar Yellin, Tomohito Moriyama, Tor Books, Trafika Europe, World Weaver Press, Yoshiki Tanaka, Zoran Živković

SHORT STORIES “The Loneliest Ward” by Hao Jingfang, translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu (Clarkesworld Magazine, August 1) “The Mauve Planet” by Safia Ketou, translated from the French by Nadia Ghanem (Arablit.org, August 13) Excerpt from The Man at One Kelvin Degrees by Piero Schiavo Campo, translated from the

Interview with Dempow Torishima

By Rachel CordascoApril 30, 2018interview, newsDaniel Huddleston, Dempow Torishima, Haikasoru, Japan, Japanese, Weird Fiction Review

Over at Weird Fiction Review, David Davis interviews Japanese speculative fiction author Dempow Torishima, whose work of biohorror, Sisyphean, was translated by Daniel Huddleston and came out earlier this year from Haikasoru. You can also check out my review of this powerful, brilliant novel here.

Out This Month: March

By Rachel CordascoMarch 2, 2018out this monthArabic, Blake Stone-Banks, Brian Bies, Brow Books, Bruno Schulz, Catalan, Catalonia, Chi Hui, China, Chinese, Clarkesworld Magazine, Daniel Huddleston, Dempow Torishima, Gautam Bhatia, Haikasoru, Hebrew, Indonesia, Indonesian, Intan Paramaditha, Ira Moskowitz, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Karin Tidbeck, Madeline G. Levine, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Manuel de Pedrolo, Northwestern University Press, Polish, Sara Martín, St. Martin's Press, Stephen J. Epstein, Strange Horizons, Wesleyan University Press, Xiu Xinyu, Yoav Blum

FICTION “Farewell, Adam” by Xiu Xinyu, translated from the Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks (Clarkesworld Magazine) “Deep Sea Fish” by Chi Hui, translated by Brian Bies (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) Typescript of the Second Origin by Manuel de Pedrolo, translated from the Catalan by Sara Martín

Review: Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima

By Rachel CordascoFebruary 26, 2018reviewDaniel Huddleston, Dempow Torishima, Haikasoru, Japan, Japanese

translated by Daniel Huddleston Haikasoru March 20, 2018 304 pages grab a copy I’ve seen this book described as bio-horror and New Weird and post-apocalyptic horror…and it is all of these things and more. This is one of those books that, while not exactly long (just over 300 pages), takes an oddly long time to

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

By Rachel CordascoJuly 22, 2017reviewDaniel Huddleston, Haikasoru, Japan, Japanese, Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, 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

Review: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Volume 2: Ambition by Yoshiki Tanaka

By Rachel CordascoFebruary 2, 2017reviewDaniel Huddleston, Haikasoru, Japan, Japanese, Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, Yoshiki Tanaka

translated by Daniel Huddleston Haikasoru July 19, 2016 288 pages It had been a while since I’d read the first novel of the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, but thanks to Tanaka’s no-frills, warp-speed style and Huddleston’s smooth translation, I had no trouble jumping right back in. And like Volume 1, Volume 2:

8 Stories Involving Intergalactic Travel

By Rachel CordascoDecember 20, 2016listCixin Liu, Daniel Huddleston, David Frye, Hassan Blasim, Julie Nováková, Ken Liu, Lawrence Schimel, Lola Robles, Tyran C. Grillo, Yoshiki Tanaka, Yoss, Yusaku Kitano

So many great sf novels and stories in translation were published in 2016, involving zombies, cyborg turtles, hostile aliens, and much more. But what if you’re really into stories about serious intergalactic travel? Here, I put together a list for you. Some of these stories happen to include space travel, while others revolve around it.

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