Small Planet: The #SFinTranslation Magazine, brings you news and analysis about speculative fiction you won't find anywhere else, including:
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@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialSmall Planet: The #SFinTranslation Magazine, brings you news and analysis about speculative fiction you won't find anywhere else, including:
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialSpeaking of French #SFinTranslation, for a snapshot of the short- and long-form fiction from 1960-2025, check out pgs 29 and 30 of the latest Small Planet: The SF in Translation Magazine:
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialThe Green Gods has turned from a swirling mess of crazy to a profound story of resilience, humanity, and love. Amazing.
French #SFinTranslation
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialSomething exciting arrived today! 🎉
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialCheck this out: on the front cover, translator C. J. Cherryh's name is actually readable and in the back cover, the names are given as "Henneberg/Cherryh".
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialOmg, two royal humans who are among the last of their kind in this excessively fecund plant and bug world have just found an underground bunker containing rockets, flying saucers, and atomic weapons. I just...what?!?!?😆
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialBuckling up for this one because I read those three Henneberg stories in the Damon Knight anthology and hooooooo boy.
French #SFinTranslation
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialFascinating- the university library system here has almost no French #SFinTranslation (as in, I couldn't even ILL it if I wanted to), and yet, it has a BUNCH of German #SFinTranslation. 🤔
@rachelcordasco.bsky.social@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialUpdated French #SFinTranslation 1960s-70s reading plan:
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialRachel S. Cordasco’s Speculative Fiction in Translation from Around the World is out now. The study maps more than half a century of speculative fiction translated into English from over 40 languages. https://www.sfintranslation.com/?p=17669 #ScienceFiction #SFinTranslation
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialTranslating Clelia Farris's stories is so much fun!
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialReading The Day of the Dolphin (1967) by Robert Merle, translated from the French by Helen Weaver (1969).
www.goodreads.com/book/show/94...
French #SFinTranslation
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialPolish #SFinTranslation
@molowrites.bsky.socialAt long last, my translation of the novelette "The Sea's Decree" by Spanish writer Armando Boix has been published in Adventures BookZine #20!!! (Fittingly, this is also my 20th published speculative translation!!! 🎉 )
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A 1910 Danish novel combining mysticism, pulp, detective & gothic horror, with a fab title:
Kzradock The Onion Man and The Spring-Fresh Methuselah: From the Notes of Dr. Renard De Montpelier
By Louis Levy, trans by W. C. Bamberger
I’m reading good this autumn!
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialIT'S ALIIIIIIIIIIIVE! #SFinTranslation🌎📚👽
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialTranslating Clelia Farris is always so much fun because she throws in these turns of phrase or images that are so unexpected--sometimes hilarious (I just put a laugh-cry emoji in one of my comments to her), sometimes absolutely beautiful.
@rachelcordasco.bsky.social#SFinTranslation reviewed by @hachepueyo.bsky.social
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialI originally wanted to write a book a la Neil Barron's Anatomy of Wonder, where I presented an annotated bibliography of ALL of the #SFinTranslation. I'm glad I wound up doing more narrative and analytical books, but that first idea still needs to be done, methinks. It would take FOREVER, though...