Originally published at Cheryl's Mewsings. Please leave any comments there.

Samovar is the speculative fiction magazine devoted to translated works. It is hosted by the good folks at Strange Horizons. The first issue was published today and you can read it here. It includes (if I’m getting this right) work in Finnish, Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew, and ( Read more... )

Originally published at Cheryl's Mewsings. Please leave any comments there.

Tor.com has published a round table on translated fiction. I was one of the participants. I didn’t have a huge amount to say, but some of the other participants were able to be far more forthcoming, especially those with projects actually underway. You can read the whole ( Read more... )

Originally published at Cheryl's Mewsings. Please leave any comments there.

Last night we went out for dinner with Charlie Stross and Feòrag. I am going to be very evil and tell you that Charlie has some great projects in the pipeline. Also, if you think the prospects of a Trump presidency are awful, be grateful that you don’t live in the world of ( Read more... )

Originally published at Cheryl's Mewsings. Please leave any comments there.

Kevin and I were planning to spend the morning on Ian Watson’s Orwell Walking Tour, which visited locations in the city mentioned in the author’s book, Homage to Catalonia. However, the tour group ended up being so large that it was hard to get close enough to Ian to hear ( Read more... )

Originally published at Cheryl's Mewsings. Please leave any comments there.

There’s a fascinating post over at the Arabic Literature in English blog. Some of you may remember me posting last year about Tales of the Marvellous, News of the Strange, a new English translation of a book that significantly pre-dates the earliest copy of The 1001 Nights ( Read more... )

Originally published at Cheryl's Mewsings. Please leave any comments there.

The website cyberdark.net has a new page up listing Spanish language science fiction, fantasy and horror available in English translation. There’s lots of good stuff out there. Why not try some of it.

I will, of course, be reporting in much greater detail about Spanish ( Read more... )

Originally published at Cheryl's Mewsings. Please leave any comments there.


( Read more... )

Originally published at Cheryl's Mewsings. Please leave any comments there.

I don’t have time to do much work on translated SF&F these days, but I am delighted to see that there is a new site devoted to this important area. Rachel S. Cordasco’s Speculative Fiction in Translation has some great material of its own, and is also gathering together ( Read more... )

Originally published at Cheryl's Mewsings. Please leave any comments there.

Some excellent news for fellow fans of the Serbian writer, Zoran Živković. A company called Cadmus Press will be publishing his entire back catalog in English. Zoran has an announcement here.

Naturally I Googled Cadmus to see who they were. I found this:

Cadmus Press was ( Read more... )

Originally published at Cheryl's Mewsings. Please leave any comments there.

Over at the Three Percent blog Chad W Post has some data on the gender of writers whose work gets translated. This is for all fiction, not just SF&F, and the publication dates covered are 2008-2014. The numbers are stark. Post says:

I suspected going into this that there ( Read more... )