Sigh. Whenever I think I'm getting on top of Mount TBR, someone goes and does something like this, and it grows uncontrollably again. #SFInTranslation #literarytranslation #xl8 💙📚🪐

Gérard Klein (1937) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, René Brantonne, 1964; R, Josh Kirby, 1972 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

方向性はわかりませんが、翻訳SFの専門誌が誕生したようです。全文ウェブで読むことでき、ウェールズ語圏のSFF事情についての記事なども掲載されています。

Cool new magazine alert!!

A magazine about all things #SFinTranslation and #worldsff. Spread the word! #sff #translation www.sfintranslation.com?p=16928

This week's new SFE entries can be found here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php Sunyi Dean, Alexis Hall, Cameron Reed, Ludwig von Reizenstein & K L Schroeder; anime tv series Fullmetal Alchemist (2003/4) & The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife (2026); plus the US comic The Human Torch (1949-54).

Korean #SFinTranslation

In case you missed last week's reviews: Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf by C. L. Clark  reviewed by Catherine Baker Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

And yes, this happens! An acquisition editor at Faber Books said via email that my review of Sven Holm's Termush (1967, trans. 1969) was instrumental in her deciding to give it a reprint. And it received an inexpensive paperback edition! sciencefictionruminations.com/2020/06/19/b...

Underrated? Yes! Post-apocalyptic nightmares? Yes! Part of SF canon? No! SF in Translation? Norway! As is the case with a name no one recognizes, few visited my recent post on Knut Faldbakken's duology Sweetwater (1974-1976) sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/05/18/b... #scifi #sciencefiction

#SFinTranslation available on the web: www.sfintranslation.com?p=16184

Ohhhh out on November *17*, is it?!? 🤔😉 Can't wait!! Danish #SFinTranslation from @ndbooks.bsky.social www.ndbooks.com/book/on-the-...

On the NBA Longlist for Translated Literature-- WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell

Just finished reading some Vietnamese #SFinTranslation from @majorbooks.bsky.social, next up: The Mulai from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social !

Tähtivaeltaja Award 2026 file770.com/tahtivaeltaj...

I unearthed these this week - two early 2000s SF magazines - KING OF SF and FANTASY WORLD - which had my earliest short stories published in China! I completely forgot about it. (FANTASY WORLD was, if I remember right, a short-lived offshoot of the bigger SF WORLD in Chengdu).

Me: "I read mostly print books and type my reviews and essays in word docs" Some of the kids in the class: 🤨🤔

"When I call a color “syrupy,” I must rely on “empathies within the esthetic experience” such that you can imagine what I mean. Criticism focused on such descriptions therefore extends an interpersonal invitation that risks being refused...

Or, you know, we could just stop writing hand-wringing essays about AI coming for the humanities and simply go back to writing about what we were writing about before- books, art, music. Just turn our attention back to the actual good stuff.

New SF in translation purchases -- potential review material for future issues of Small Planet: The SF in Translation Magazine. Danish, German, and French #scifi #sciencefiction #Books

“What attracts me about translation is that the words you choose have their starting point in someone else’s wholly different set of words.” —Translator Chenxin Jiang reflects on mother tongues and the influence of family history in language for LitHub.

New #Shelfie alert!

So @samovarmag.bsky.social has been bringing Anglophone readers #SFinTranslation for 9 years so far, longer than any other similar magazine. Congrats!🎉

Lose yourself in a ton of interesting essays/books on #SFinTranslation and #worldsf: www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=4690

Check out my #shelfie! Thanks, @lavietidhar.bsky.social ! shelfies.beehiiv.com/p/shelfies-8... #SFinTranslation

Essay: A Short History of International SF Magazines: www.sfintranslation.com?p=16892 #SFinTranslation

2026 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire Winners locusmag.com/2026/05...

Several. 1977 #SFintranslation Clifford D. Simak Ein Erbe der Sterne (A Heritage to Stars) about lost knowledge, a wacky quest for pre apocalyptic fabled space age archeological remains.. Alien Clay by A. Tschaikowsky, Red Moon by KSR and There's no Anti Memetics Division by qntm.

Essay: A Short History of International SF Magazines: www.sfintranslation.com?p=16892 #SFinTranslation

Self-Worth reminds me of a story from the Hungarian where people can produce money from their bodies: Hungarian #SFinTranslation hlo.hu/new-work/att... scribepublications.com.au/books/self-w...

"The exchange of works of fiction between cultures is necessary for its survival and growth. Lubricating the machinery of exchange are translators, and the publishers of translated works. In science fiction the gears sometimes seem to lack oil--and the machine runs very much in one direction."

Please share and let me know if you have any information on Joe Randolph's magazine DIFFERENT REALITIES from 1997-98 or William Wheeler's SF INTERNATIONAL beyond what is available in the SF Encyclopedia.... Thanks!

Check out this excerpt from a work of Korean epic fantasy on @reactorsff.bsky.social, translated by the brilliant @antonhur.com. #SFinTranslation reactormag.com/excerpts-the...

#SFinTranslation in May is like my kids' school in May: EVERYTHING is going on www.sfintranslation.com?p=16784

If you're a samurai fan who loves SF, fantasy, and horror, hold on to your katana: here are seven speculative books, TV shows, and movies that follow sword-wielding samurai facing off against aliens, time travel, magic, and distant planets!

Just talked to a middle-school class about #SFinTranslation, writing, and publishing. Getting that new generation excited about SFT! 🤓

I'm volunteering in a very small library and omg the things I'm finding there- mugs hidden behind books, a pack of vintage playing cards, self-published family histories - what a gold mine! 📚

Over the course of the next four years, HarperVoyager will publish the four giant volumes of The Bird That Drinks Tears saga, also known as the LOTR of Korea, beginning with The Heart of the Nhaga next month. This is the first available excerpt in English.

Korean #SFinTranslation

Again I say: get this book, I can already tell it's going to be a stand-out of the year. Strange, funny, and humane.

2026 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire file770.com/2026-grand-p...

I've got an essay in this!!! :D

So far in long-form #SFinTranslation this year:

Mónica Ojeda's Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun, tr from the Spanish by Sarah Booker, came out last week from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social: coffeehousepress.org/products/ele... #SFinTranslation

Portuguese #SFinTranslation

"Then I fell into this “literary translator” job and suddenly I had to figure out exactly what white people thought—and fast." Never skip @antonhur.com on literary translation!

More Gheorghe Săsărman, tr from the Romanian by Monica Cure on SciPhi Journal: www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2026/03/26/verticity/ #SFinTranslation

#SFinTranslation out this month from @asimovssfmag.bsky.social : "The Girl Who Stole Life" by Zhou Wen, tr from the Chinese by @xuetingni.bsky.social asimovs.com/current-issu...

Check out all of the reviews of #SFinTranslation out this month !(scroll down to the bottom of the post): www.sfintranslation.com?p=16784

Kobo Abe's Secret Rendezvous (1977, trans. 1979) -- business man, and one-time male nude model, enters bizarre hospital looking for his wife. He eventually participates and observes a series of strange, and disquieting, experiments. My review: sciencefictionruminations.com/2019/03/28/b...