The November issue of Small Planet: the #SFinTranslation Magazine is gonna be OFF. THE. HOOK. (do they still say that??) Anyway, you're gonna love it!
Here are the first two issues to tide you over until then:
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@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialThe November issue of Small Planet: the #SFinTranslation Magazine is gonna be OFF. THE. HOOK. (do they still say that??) Anyway, you're gonna love it!
Here are the first two issues to tide you over until then:
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialSo France loved Barjavel, Americans were either meh about him or loathed his stuff...? What was it the French loved but the Americans didn't? The plot? The style?
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialReviews of #SFinTranslation should always always always include the name of the translator, especially in the very beginning.
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialFrench #SFinTranslation
@kdsbooks.bsky.socialMy second Korean read is a near-perfect cosmic horror.
Inspired by Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu, Shadow Over Innsmouth and others; this is a beautifully written and atmospheric novella of otherworldly horror, grief, isolation, pandemic fears and eventually paranoia.
@rachelcordasco.bsky.social@kdsbooks.bsky.socialLast week I received a translated gothic horror novel from an Argentinian author and a twist on the the Jekyll and Hyde story.
Today I received a Japanese Scifi from the 90s as the latest SF Masterwork.
Paprika by Yasutaka Tsustui, transl by Helen O’Horan
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@litbystraylight.bsky.socialI've been asking my browser to translate some old Interkom articles from Czech -> English.
Very useful! But also a reminder of the value of human translators. Here is Eva Hauserová reviewing her own collection.
(Předběžná autorecenze = "Preliminary Self Review")
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@rachelcordasco.bsky.social@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialOk, so I'm about 80 pages in and no sign yet of giant insects. Isn't this supposed to be French #SFinTranslation from the 1960s? So where are the giant, terrifying insects? Did Barjavel just not get the memo? 😆
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialthat the entire world, watching the live feed, is holding its breath, and then I realize that I, too, am holding my breath! Her eyelids flutter! Her mouth moves! She's about to say something!
French #SFinTranslation
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@kdsbooks.bsky.socialHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Eye of Goliath by Diego Muzzio, transl by Rahul Berry
And excitedly, Magic Realms: The Art of Fighting Fantasy by Ian Livingstone & Jonathan Green
Will post pictures of the nostalgic artwork later
#booksky #SFinTranslation #Gothic
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@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialThe #SFinTranslation on the list includes:
- The School of Night, Karl Ove Knausgård, tr. Martin Aitken
- Centroeuropa, Vicente Luis Mora, tr. Rahul Bery
- Night of a Thousand Hells, Intan Paramaditha, tr. Stephen Epstein & Tiffany Tsao
- Pure Men, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, tr. Lara Vergnaud
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The Ice People
@hiddenscifi.bsky.socialBlack 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
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialWas 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?).