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Rachel Cordasco
@rachelcordasco.bsky.social
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Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar. I also crochet.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · Aug 13
Science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism, weird, etc. from around the world
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press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=45...

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Out of This World
An informative and one-of-a-kind guide, Out of This World offers readers and scholars alike a tour of speculative fiction's new globalized era.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 1d
Interviews like these where authors & translators discuss the complex & fascinating work of translation show that machine translation will never be able to work the linguistic magic that humans can:

#SFinTranslation

www.sfintranslation.com?p=15382
www.sfintranslation.com?p=15345
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 1d
"Translators are magicians."- Moskát
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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 6d
"I’m interested in how we can use the tools of speculative fiction to talk about the post-truth world." 🔮📚

New interview today by @marissavu.bsky.social: "Author Anita Moskát and Translator Austin Wagner"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Interview with Author Anita Moskát and Translator Austin Wagner, By Marissa van Uden. Apex Magazine Issue 151."
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 1d
Stay on top of the latest #SFinTranslation available on the web: www.sfintranslation.com?p=14699
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 1d
Hungarian #SFinTranslation!
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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 8d
"'And I love you very much.'
She’d signed it so many times before. I never suspected she was lying." 🌬️🤟

New fiction today by Anita Moskát and Austin Wagner: "Liecraft"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Liecraft by by Anita Moskát, Translated by Austin Wagner. Apex Magazine Issie 151."
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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 6d
This interview is 🔥🔥🔥!

If you haven't read the story yet, be sure to do that first, but don't miss out on Marissa's interview!
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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 6d
"I’m interested in how we can use the tools of speculative fiction to talk about the post-truth world." 🔮📚

New interview today by @marissavu.bsky.social: "Author Anita Moskát and Translator Austin Wagner"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Interview with Author Anita Moskát and Translator Austin Wagner, By Marissa van Uden. Apex Magazine Issue 151."
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 1d
All reviews in this issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social are of #SFinTranslation❤️

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/is...
13 October 2025
Visit the post for more.
strangehorizons.com
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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 3d
New fanzine post: What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + The Power of the List

Come join the discussion: sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/10/12/w...
What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXVI
A selection of read volumes from my shelves What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the August installment of this column. The Power of the List. I ador…
sciencefictionruminations.com
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 4d
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 4d
Read the ten Nobel laureates in literature in the Words Without Borders archive: Svetlana Alexievich, Jon Fosse, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Han Kang, László Krasznahorkai, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Naguib Mahfouz, Herta Müller, Olga Tokarczuk, and Tomas Tranströmer.
Nobel Laureates Archives - Words Without Borders
A collection of writing by winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature from the Words Without Borders archive, including László Krasznahorkai and Han Kang.
wordswithoutborders.org
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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 4d
New review: J.M.Lee's 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ www.complete-review.com/reviews/kore...
Artificial Truth - J.M.Lee
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Artificial Truth by J.M.Lee.
www.complete-review.com
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 4d
YAAAAS! Finally getting back to Japanese science fiction, which is some of the best you'll ever read. Very excited to read this.
#SFinTranslation
#Kurodahan❤️
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 5d
#SFinTranslation trivia: Danish SFT

as of 2025:
• 64 short stories, 23 novels
• 2010- more stories than any other year b/c of 19 stories in the Sky City anthology
• something every decade since the 1950s
• 4 collections, 1 anthology
• 17 stories not in a collection or Sky City
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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 5d
2025 Geffen Awards
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2025 Geffen Awards
The winners of the 2025 Geffen Awards, were announced on October 9 during the closing ceremony at Icon Festival, the 29th Annual Israeli Festival for science fiction, fantasy and role playing games…
file770.com
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 5d
This year in #SFinTranslation so far:

no anthologies
12 collections (16.7%)
60 novels (83.3%)

The source language with the highest number of translations? Spanish (22.2%)
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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 6d
Krasznahorkai Nobel-win coverage at the Literary Saloon updated www.complete-review.com/saloon/archi... I think that should do it for today .....
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
www.nobelprize.org
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 7d
hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...

@hedgehogreview.bsky.social
#translation
The Kafka Challenge
The Kafkaesque lends itself to translation.
hedgehogreview.com
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 8d
A few years ago, I did a Pierre Boulle series on the #SFinTranslation site- spoiler: it was so fun.

www.sfintranslation.com?s=boulle&sub...
Search Results for “boulle” – Speculative Fiction in Translation
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 8d
Never read KALLOCAIN so here goes!

Swedish #SFinTranslation
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 14d
Ready for another interview with an author and translator longlisted for the NBA for Translated Literature? We spoke to Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, author and translator of WE COMPUTERS (and two WWB contributors!): @yalepress.bsky.social wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Black background, white text, circular author photos of Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, and the cover of WE COMPUTERS. Book cover is a painting of a man with his head in a pink computer. At the top is the NBF logo reading “76th National Book Awards,” and below it is “Words Without Borders.” The text is as follows: National Book Award Interviews: Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega on We Computers “I once said that writing a novel often feels like rolling a snowball: you start with a small, granular idea, and it gathers other, often unexpected, ideas as it grows.” — Hamid Ismailov.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 8d
Over 50 stories and poems, but the number of translated pieces is...1? 🤔
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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 27d
Table of Contents for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three
file770.com/table-of-con...
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 8d
I really wanted to like this novel but was pretty disappointed. It seemed disjointed and gave up so many opportunities to explore further the central image of the monkey with the transplanted head...
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 8d
#SFinTranslation Review: DIVING BOARD by Tomás Downey, tr by Sarah Moses (Invisible Publishing)

www.sfintranslation.com?p=15332
Review: Diving Board by Tomás Downey – Speculative Fiction in Translation
www.sfintranslation.com
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 8d
SFinTranslation.com
#SFinTranslation

Because why read books from just one language?
Speculative Fiction in Translation – Your guide to speculative fiction from around the world
SFinTranslation.com
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · Sep 9
After a long day at the Moscow circus, a dark-skinned Russian woman is accused of kidnapping her children—then gets revenge on her accusers. Read “Mordovian Cross” by Evgenia Nekrasova, translated by our 2024 Momentum Grant winner @marsnova.bsky.social : wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
A blue graphic with white text and the edge of a photo, which is beige fabric with a colorful pattern of intricate embroidery. There is a white WWB logo. The text reads: Fiction Mordovian Cross By Evgenia Nekrasova, translated from Russian by Marianna Suleymanova She shouldn’t have gone to Moscow in the first place.
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 12d
Russian #SFinTranslation
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Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social · Sep 2
My translation of “Legs” by Evgenia Nekrasova, a Baba Yaga origin story set in modernity, is now available to read and listen to in full. Deep gratitude to @khoreo.bsky.social for featuring this tale. I hope you give it a bit of your time: www.khoreomag.com/translation/...
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