I want to read this frenetic pop-surrealist fever dream! #SFinTranslation

We're happy to declare that we have two new titles in hand: Huysmans's pessimistic ode to sterility (and his own favorite novel of his career), Domesticity, and Jacques Sternberg's frenetic pop-surrealist fever dream, The Employee wakefieldpress.com/products/dom... wakefieldpress.com/products/the...

Fantastic Orgy by Alexander M. Frey, is now in hand, along with reprints of Marcel Brion's Waystations of the Deep Night and Jean Ray's Malpertuis. Sign up for our newsletter for updates at wakefieldpress.com. Thank you and much love to our readership and supporters!

Wait, there's a new Djuna collection out???!?? kaya.com/books/not-ye... Korean #SFinTranslation

Korean #SFinTranslation out next August: A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-young, tr by Sophie Bowman, from @torbooks.bsky.social "Visionary Korean author Kim Bo-young unleashes a Lovecraftian nightmare of infection, transformation, and abomination."

I'm not finding enough #SFinTranslation with spaceships and alien planets and that's making me really grumpy.

Harold Mead (1910-1997) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Barton, 1957; R, Richard Powers, 1956 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Check out our campaign's most cat-tastic update yet! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...

#SFinTranslation out yesterday: The Event by Juan José Saer, tr from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane, @openletterbooks.bsky.social Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada, tr from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani, @ndbooks.bsky.social Directions www.sfintranslation.com?p=15161

#SFinTranslation so far this year: 23% are translated from the Spanish 85.7% are novels 11.4% texts are from Japan

Check out the #SFinTranslation free to read on the web: www.sfintranslation.com?p=14699

#SFinTranslation out this month: translations from the Japanese, Chinese, Kyrgyz, Spanish, Polish, Russian, and Danish www.sfintranslation.com?p=15161

Check out her "vampire" story at Asymptote: www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2024/02... Swahili #SFinTranslation

My novel 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑧 isn't exactly flying off the bookshelves (our out of the warehouse) at Amazon, but the "Customers who bought this item also bought"-trio suggests its readership is very discerning, with excellent taste. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...

Reading the second book in the BLEEDING EMPIRE series from @torbooks.bsky.social Korean #SFinTranslation us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Two new #SFinTranslation reviews: #Hungarian #Danish EYE OF THE MONKEY www.sfintranslation.com?p=15202 THE WAX CHILD www.sfintranslation.com?p=15219

When a book you're reading is terrible but it has these glowing reviews from famous writers.

#SFinTranslation source language lists: www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=11605

An article about Ukrainian SF/F writers who are on the front lines, written by Henry Lion Oldie, translated by Borys Sydiuk has been published at Amazing Stories. Check it out! amazingstories.com/2025/09/ukra...

My review of Samanta Schweblin's GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES (tr. Megan McDowell) from @aaknopf.bsky.social Spanish #SFinTranslation www.sfintranslation.com?p=15171

#SFinTranslation Out This Month: from the Japanese, Kyrgyz, Spanish, Danish, and more! www.sfintranslation.com?p=15161

For more on Hungarian #SFinTranslation: www.sfintranslation.com?p=14531

Starting Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth, tr from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet, from @sevenstories.bsky.social #SFinTranslation www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796414...

#SFinTranslation Out This Month: from @headofzeus.bsky.social, @syracuseup.bsky.social, @aaknopf.bsky.social, @openletterbooks.bsky.social, @ndbooks.bsky.social, @gollancz.bsky.social, @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social, and more! www.sfintranslation.com?p=15161

Translators are artists.

So far this year, I've read #SFinTranslation from the Arabic, Russian, Korean, Finnish, Danish, and Spanish! 📚🌎🤖👽

Next up! #SFinTranslation by Samanta Schweblin, tr Megan McDowell, from @aaknopf.bsky.social

“Engaging with a work of art by meeting the book where it is and trying to understand how it’s constructed can be an incredibly rich and rewarding experience.” Chad W. Post offers best practices for reviewing literary translations. @chadwpost.bsky.social‬ worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

FACT: If you tried to read every book on the list of horror, romantasy, and other SFF-crossover novels coming out in September 2025...it would take a really long time. Which are you most excited for? reactormag.com/new-sff-cros...

Strange Houses by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Han Song sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/han_song and Bernard Wolfe sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wolfe_... were born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (Artist: 1&2 [couldn't identify], 3 Jack Gaughan, 4 Antoni Garcés).

Arkady Strugatski sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/struga... was born on this day, so here's artwork for some of his works, co-written with brother Boris (Artist: Adrian Chesterman, [couldn't identify], Richard Powers and I Ilyinsky). 4th for "Страна багровых туч" (1959):

Théophile Gautier sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gautie... was born on this day, so here are some illustrations (by Alex Lunois) to the 1901 edition of his "Le Roman de La Momie" (aka "Romance of the Mummy"):

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/shelle... was born on this day, so here are three covers and an interior graphic novel illustration for Frankenstein (Artist: Norm Saunders, [couldn't identify], Vin Giuliani and Bernie Wrightson). 2nd a 1946 French or Belgian edition:

SO excited to start Solvej Balle's ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book III) (tr. from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell) from @ndbooks.bsky.social Danish #SFinTranslation

So far, I've documented 3,625 unique works of #SFinTranslation, and I still haven't yet entered a bunch of others into the spreadsheet.❤️📚🌎👽🤖

Italian #SFinTranslation

What are some of your favorite places to go for speculative fiction reviews?

There is SO MUCH #SFinTranslation coming out in September! From @ndbooks.bsky.social, @headofzeus.bsky.social, @aaknopf.bsky.social, @openletterbooks.bsky.social, @gollancz.bsky.social, @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social, and more! www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=14607

I recently reviewed the Strugatsky brothers' “Wanderers and Travellers” (1963, trans. 1966) a few days ago with Rachel S. Cordasco (@rachelcordasco.bsky.social) if you missed it! sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/08/17/s...

#SFinTranslation Out This Month (stories/books/reviews): www.sfintranslation.com?p=15050

In “Okay, You Sold Me,” WLT book review editor Rob Vollmar reveals 10 books he bought because a WLT reviewer made him. What books have you felt compelled to read after reading a review? worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

In the mail: a trio of very different books, starting with the new Loeb ed./translation of Caesar's 𝐺𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑊𝑎𝑟 (replacing the 1917 one ....), from @harvardpress.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

I love #SFinTranslation and I love making lists www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=11605

I'll go with an unconventional pick - The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang (Hwang Seon-mi), translated by Chi-Young Kim. Super popular book, I've just never seen it categorized as fantasy. But! It has talking animals! #SFinTranslation

Your favorite work of Korean fantasy... GO! #SFinTranslation

Currently reading- Korean #SFinTranslation from @torbooks.bsky.social

The reviews are in! Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder by Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill reviewed by Sally Parlier Dark Worlds We Wander by Kristin Kirby reviewed by David Lewis Ley Lines by Tim Welsh reviewed by Cameron Miguel Link to latest issue in bio!

One could spend all of their time just delving into the treasures of Japanese #SFinTranslation. It's an absolute treasure trove.

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Robert Watson, 1958; R, Chesley Bonestell, 1951 #scifi #sciencefiction #books