Fanzines and World SF:
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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
@rachelcordasco.bsky.social@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialFrench #SFinTranslation
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?).
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialLuna 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.
@rachelcordasco.bsky.social#SFinTranslation trivia: Rene Barjavel's La Nuit des Temps (1968) was translated into English by Charles Lam Markmann as The Ice People (1970).
French #SFinTranslation
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialI 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
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialHorde of the Counterwind, in
@dickowalexander.bsky.social's excellent translation, is out next week!!!
www.abramsbooks.com/product/hord...
French #SFinTranslation
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialSo much great #SFinTranslation out this month!
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialOf the 21 works of #SFinTranslation DAW published in the 70s and 80s, Barbet has the most translated books! Why, Donald Wollheim, WHYYYYYY
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialPierre 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).
French #SFinTranslation
@arn99.bsky.socialJust 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
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialAnd then Rachel discovered Shards of Babel magazine and fell down a rabbit hole.
@kdsbooks.bsky.socialFinally 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
