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This time it’s another Zoomed Out episode, focusing on Speculative Fiction in Translation (SFT), with guest Rachel Cordasco. Below I’ve captured some of her recommendations. There are some light spoilers in the episode, but nothing that should detract from your enjoyment of these books and authors.
Notes & Links:
- https://www.sfintranslation.com/
- https://twitter.com/Rcordas
- https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/189370-speculative-fiction-in-translation
- https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/july/introduction-international-horror-fiction-translation-rachel-cordasco
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SFT Recommendations:
- Russia
- Roadside Picnic, by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
- Poland
- Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
- France/French Canada
- Planet of the Apes and Desperate Games, by Pierre Boulle
- Silent City and In The Mothers’ Land, by Elisabeth Vonarburg
- Anything by Jules Verne (stay tuned for a future episode)
- China:
- The Three Body Problem (and trilogy), by Liu Cixin (also Supernova Era)
- Argentina
- Trafalgar, by Angelica Gorodischer
- Japan
- Kthulhu Reich, by Ken Asamatsu
- All You Need Is Kill, by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Even More Recommendations, The Lightning Round!
- India
- It Happened Tomorrow, ed. by Bal Phondke
- Indonesia
- Author recommendations: Eka Kurniawan, Intan Paramaditha, Rio Johan
- Italy
- Clelia Farris
- Finland
- Johanna Sinisalo
- Sweden
- Let the Right One In, by John Lindqvist
- Iraq
- Iraq+100, ed. by Hassan Blasim
- Frankenstein in Baghdad, by Ahmed Saadawi
- Israel
- Zion’s Fiction, ed. by Sheldon Teitelbaum
- Dominican Republic
- Wicked Weeds, by Pedro Cabilla