The @fallofcivilizations.com episodes are a treasure trove.

Working on a piece about #SFinTranslation over the past five years- where it's coming from, who is publishing it, etc. Already getting some VERY interesting info! ❤️📚🌎🤖👽

Yasssssss!!!!! A new episode!!!!!!

Starting ARTIFICIAL TRUTH by J. M. Lee, tr from the Korean by Sean Lin Halbert #SFinTranslation www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

Tried to read some Modernist and Symbolist poetry to the kids but after a few lines they put their hands over their ears and started screaming "MAKE IT STOP." 🤦

any translation publishers out there willing to share how many pitches they receive a year on average?

We have new releases and more on the way bookshop.org/lists/space-...

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, uncredited, 1975; R, uncredited, 1970 #scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature

New week at SH, and in Reviews we open with a doozy: @shinjinidey.bsky.social on Paul Kincaid's Colourfields (@briardenebooks.bsky.social). Who doesn't love reading a critic on a critic? So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."

the problem with the literature curriculum today is that it would only work if students had a long history of reading a variety of texts outside of class for themselves and—by and large—they don't

#SFinTranslation out today (1/2): THE WEEK OF COLORS by Elena Garro, tr from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com) NOT YET GODS by Djuna, tr from the KoreanJihyun Park and Gord Sellar (@kayapress.bsky.social)

Polish #SFinTranslation by Jacek Dukaj!

New review: Tóth Krisztina's 𝐸𝑦𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑦 www.complete-review.com/reviews/magy...

Danish #SFinTranslation

The lamented Kurodahan Press. When will we see its like again?

Including an interview with @elipsett.bsky.social !

Spotlight on Kurodahan Press: www.sfintranslation.com?p=15500 Japanese #SFinTranslation

My take on THE THOUSAND YEAR BEACH by Tobi Hirotaka (tr from the Japanese by Matt Treyvaud), from Haikasoru: #SFinTranslation www.sfintranslation.com?p=15552

New on Substack, Jon Baskin and Mike Lipkin continue our series of conversations on graduate education by asking: What does it mean to say humanistic scholars “produce knowledge” in the first place? And is it important to ask what this knowledge is “for”?

Bourbon Penn 37 is live with brand new stories from Lavie Tidhar, Nick DiChario, Clelia Farris, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick. @lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social

Japanese #SFinTranslation

Reading about Japanese #SFinTranslation at a French cafe in Wisconsin is very on brand for me 😎.

This was a fun review- from 2019 Asamatsu Ken's KTHULHU REICH, tr. Jim Rion (from Kurodahan) Japanese #SFinTranslation www.sfintranslation.com?p=7085

Some news about the SFE on Substack (including link): sf-encyclopedia.com/news/sfe_on_...

Nathalie Henneberg sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/henneb... was born on this day: some of her book covers (Artist: 1&2 Philippe Caza, 3 Jean-Claude Forest, 4 "atelier Pascal Vercken"). 1&2: front & back covers don't match because I lack have the spine image. 3&4 actually by Charles & Nathalie Henneberg:

Anna Starobinets sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/starob... was born on this day, so here are some of her book covers (first by Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme, couldn't identify the other artists):

Working on an overview of Kurodahan atm for the site, as well!🇯🇵🚀 👻 📚

Kurodahan Press reviews and more on the #SFinTranslation site: www.sfintranslation.com?tag=kurodaha...

It's very sad. Their closing has meant a massive drop in high quality Japanese #SFinTranslation. Maybe one day soon someone else will step in to fill the void.

THE THOUSAND YEAR BEACH is reminding me a LOT of the absolutely fabulous DENDERA, but instead of a bear it's virtual spiders. Japanese #SFinTranslation #Haikasoru

Don't miss this reading by translator @michellemirabella.bsky.social from #Chilean author Catalina Infante Beovic's debut novel THE CRACKS WE BEAR (@worldedbooks.bsky.social, 2025), an exploration of memory, trauma, and grief in a country still haunted by the Pinochet dictatorship.

#SFinTranslation Out This Month: Clelia Farris, Jacek Dukaj, Djuna, and more!!! www.sfintranslation.com?p=15459

Paul Di Filippo sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/di_fil... was born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Dante Primoverso, Franco Brambilla, [couldn't identify] and Franco Brambilla). 3rd for "A Canticle for Ackerman" (Amazing Stories, September 2024):

Your favorite Kurodahan Press book: GO!

The Magic Mountain- still the greatest novel ever written.

Yay! More #SFinTranslation!

The reviews are in! The Man of Middling Height by Fadi Zaghmout, translated by Wasan Abdelhaq reviewed by Kyle R. Garton Seed Beetle: Poems by Mahaila Smith reviewed by Vivian Wagner Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce reviewed by Tristan Beiter Link to the latest issue in our bio!

For more #SFinTranslation reviews, go here: www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=13682

My thoughts on Fujisaki Shingo's CRYSTAL SILENCE (tr from the Japanese by Kathleen Taji) from Kurodahan, though I barely scratch the surface of this ambitious novel: www.sfintranslation.com?p=15462 Japanese #SFinTranslation

Check out my review of You-Jeong Jeong's work of psychological horror, PERFECT HAPPINESS, tr from the Korean by Sean Lin Halbert (Creature Publishing).

More Japanese #SFinTranslation! from Haikasoru

The November issue is out, featuring World Lit in the Age of AI, with striking cover art by Sasha Stiles and an essay about her ongoing poem-in-residence project at MoMA + 8 other writers on the topic. Check out the table of contents and start reading! worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/november

A must-have: ROBOT GHOSTS AND WIRED DREAMS (2007) @uminnpress.bsky.social Japanese #SFinTranslation www.upress.umn.edu/978145291346...

New review: Gabriele Tergit's 1951 novel 𝐸𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 www.complete-review.com/reviews/deut... now (soon) in English, from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social in the US and (as 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠: 𝐴 𝐵𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑎𝑔𝑎, *sigh*) from @pushkinpress.com in the UK

Swedish #SFinTranslation

Artist Fred Marcellino (1939-2001) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, 1977; R, 1980 #scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist #books

«A Night in the Lonesome Myshktober», 26-X-25 «Just an occasional glance at the bottle of port, which had begun glowing faintly.» #inktober

Looking for award-winning literary speculative fiction from Italy? Read Clelia Farris! #SFinTranslation www.sfintranslation.com?p=12475

"With “Veg-humans”, Clelia Farris, leading author of Italian science fiction, embraces the solarpunk genre through an original vision, made of native innovation, radical sustainability, and collective knowledge." Italian #SFinTranslation from Future Fiction www.futurefiction.org/veg-humans/?...