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@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialUnfortunately, it's probably merited...
Rachel Cordasco
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@rachelcordasco.bsky.social@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialOOOOOOOFFFF Kirkus ripped that Barjavel novel to shreds didn't they🫣
@anmlymag.bsky.socialReposted by @rachelcordasco.bsky.socialnew issue drops tuesday! catch up 🌀☄️
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.socialReposted by @rachelcordasco.bsky.socialPlease check a reliable source re urban wildlife. If you see, for example, a "baby" opossum and think it has been abandoned, just know that unless it is really tiny--less than 7 or 8 inches long-- the baby is old enough to forage by itself and no intervention is needed.
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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
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialBarjavel really knows how to manipulate the reader- the building-up of suspense at several points (and just in the first 50 pages!) borders on the ridiculous if it wasn't so effective. When the scientists start defrosting one of the nearly-million-year-old people found in the South Pole, we're told
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialHere are previous essays in this series: www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=4690
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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
@danhartland.bsky.socialReposted by @rachelcordasco.bsky.socialWe promised you regular new reviews of older SFF - and here’s the first of many!
Paul March-Russell on 1956’s Tiger! Tiger! (or The Stars My Destination, depending who you ask) by Alfred Bester: a picaresque, a revenge tragedy, a quest, a romance.
Edited, of course, by @kateem.bsky.social.
@joachimboaz.bsky.socialReposted by @rachelcordasco.bsky.social“...and by now these daring adventurers must be well into space, on their way to exciting discoveries in our vast solar system...”
Bill Reid's cartoon in Imaginative Tales (March 1956)
#scifi #sciencefiction
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@littranslate.bsky.socialReposted by @rachelcordasco.bsky.socialFans of haunting and fear might want to get started on spooky reads sooner rather than later. Lauren Sands’ Substack unfurls a long list of gothic literature for your enjoyment, including translations from ALTA members Susan Bernofsky, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, David McKay, and more.
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialFrench #SFinTranslation
The Ice People
@rachelcordasco.bsky.socialBUT ALSO don't let the present make you think the past was just like it. I'm reading 60s and 70s SF as a personal project and it's very enlightening and VERY different from what out there today.
@rachelcordasco.bsky.social"Perhaps we should all adopt a new rule: For every rediscovered treasure you pick up on the recommendation of a connoisseur of late 20thc bohemian Australian fiction, read a book published in the past five years. Don’t let the seductions of the past blind you to the fascinations of the present."