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Black Coat Press’s Starblood brings two 1960s French SF tales by Nathalie Charles Henneberg into English. In The Lost Fortress, a colony ship reaches a haunted planet near Alpha Centauri. https://www.blackcoatpress.com/new-releases-starblood.html #SciFiBooks #SFInTranslation

Was going to skip The Ice People on my French #SFinTranslation list because I increasingly dislike reading on a screen but...I think I'm gonna do it. Barjavel has a seemingly good reputation (apparently his stuff is really depressing?).

Luna Monthly and the World SF Newsletter are Small Planet's Grandma and Grandpa. Shards of Babel is SP's fun aunt and the World SF Blog is SP's mom.

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#SFinTranslation trivia: Rene Barjavel's La Nuit des Temps (1968) was translated into English by Charles Lam Markmann as The Ice People (1970).

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I already purchased 3 Barbet books off abe (one contains two short novels) so I am about to become an expert on Barbet. Napoleons is making me want to pull my hair out. This should be fun. #SFinTranslation

Horde of the Counterwind, in
@dickowalexander.bsky.social's excellent translation, is out next week!!!

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Of the 21 works of #SFinTranslation DAW published in the 70s and 80s, Barbet has the most translated books! Why, Donald Wollheim, WHYYYYYY

Pierre Boulle and Pierre Barbet both have this jaunty style but at least Boulle's stuff doesn't seem silly. Ok, I'm basing this on one Barbet book. He has 2 more chances with me because I bought 2 other books of his (before I started Napoleons).

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Just finished 'The last children of Tokyo' by Yoko Tawada, translation by Margaret Mitsutani.
Interesting book, only 130 pages, wish it was longer, beautifully written account of how a future isolationist Japan is coping with contamination of land, food and people
1/2 #booksky #SF #SFinTranslation

And then Rachel discovered Shards of Babel magazine and fell down a rabbit hole.

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Finally managed to find somewhere to take a preorder for the English translation of 'Horde of the Counterwind', one of the inspirations for Clair Obscura: Expedition 33.

Apparently a cult SF classic in France and one @rachelcordasco.bsky.social has raved about

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So far, in my vintage French #SFinTranslation In-Depth series:

Green Gods: 😯
Day Before Tomorrow: 👍
Napoleons of Eridanus: 🤨

"Overhead flew swarms of enormous insects"

That's 3/3 French SF novels from the 60s and 70s so far with giant bugs.

I don't know if you know this, but I loathe bugs.

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An interesting book which really comes into its own with powerful passages like these that describe a poetic relationship between the lighthouse, the elements and the moon.

Here our keeper is lamenting his lost love and loneliness, while fighting his descent into madness.

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"You have been chosen by destiny for a new existence that will tear you from the banality of an Earthbound life and launch you into space at the head of powerful fleets!" #SFinTranslation

#nowreading The Last Children of Tokyo by
Yolo Tawada, translated from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani.
This is actually a short book of only 138 pages, it's something I spotted on my daughter's shelf and I know nothing about it but looks interesting.
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Just out from @pushkinpress.com:

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Putting together the line-ups for upcoming issues of Small Planet: The #SFinTranslation Magazine- so much great stuff! While you wait for the November issue, check out the May and August issues: