Speculative Fiction in Translation #12: Fantasy, Collections, and Korean SFT

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February offered us more short fiction than anything else, though we did get the absolutely wonderful anthology of Chinese SFT edited and translated by Ken Liu: Broken Stars. In terms of the short fiction, fantasy dominated, with stories from the Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean. Rachel and Daniel also talk about the fiction they’re looking forward to in the upcoming months and the books they’re currently reading/teaching. Plus they discuss the great Korean SFT news from Neil Clarke!

Remember: with new stories and books coming to their attention each week, make sure to check the SFT website for updates. Enjoy, and keep reading!

A bientôt!

Show notes:

SFT Out in February
- “The Butcher of New Tasmania” by Suo Hefu, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld Magazine, February 1).
- “Art” by Alberto Chimal, translated from the Spanish by David Bowles, The Dark, February.
- “Everyone Sleeps at Night” by Anderson Fonseca, translated from the Portuguese by Toshiya Kamei (Idle Ink, February 25).
- “For Humanity Today and Tomorrow” by Sou Saito, translated from the Japanese by Toshiya Kamei (Aphelion, February).
- “A Young Man’s Fortune” by Alberto Chimal, translated from the Spanish by Toshiya Kamei (Bewildering Stories, February).
- “Home” by Soyeon Jeong, translated from the Korean by Sophie Bowman (Guernica, February 28).
- The Nine Cloud Dream by Kim Man-Jung, translated from the Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl (Penguin, February 5).
- Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, edited and translated by Ken Liu (Tor Books, February 19).

Reviews

Articles/Essays/Interviews
- “Translating the Dark Surrealism of Samanta Schweblin’s Mouthful of Birds”

Readers’ Corner
- Daniel is teaching Frankenstein in Baghdad
- Rachel is reading A Bond Undone (Legends of the Condor Heroes #2)
- Rachel is translating an Italian story by Raul Ciannela

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Rachel Cordasco

Rachel Cordasco has a Ph.D in literary studies and currently works as a developmental editor. When she's not at her day job or chasing three kids, she's writing reviews and translating Italian speculative fiction. She runs the website sfintranslation.com, and can be found on Facebook and Twitter.