Rachel Cordasco
@rachelcordasco.bsky.social
Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar. I also crochet.
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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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Science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism, weird, etc. from around the world
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🗓️#SFinTranslation year in review🗓️
novels make up 86.4% of texts this year
collections make up 13.6%
novels make up 86.4% of texts this year
collections make up 13.6%
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
🗓️#SFinTranslation year in review🗓️
novels make up 86.4% of texts this year
collections make up 13.6%
novels make up 86.4% of texts this year
collections make up 13.6%
🗓️#SFinTranslation year in review🗓️
top 3 publishers:
New Directions - 6 (7.4%)
Honford Star, Two Lines Press - 4 (4.9%)
top 3 publishers:
New Directions - 6 (7.4%)
Honford Star, Two Lines Press - 4 (4.9%)
November 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
🗓️#SFinTranslation year in review🗓️
top 3 publishers:
New Directions - 6 (7.4%)
Honford Star, Two Lines Press - 4 (4.9%)
top 3 publishers:
New Directions - 6 (7.4%)
Honford Star, Two Lines Press - 4 (4.9%)
🗓️#SFinTranslation year in review🗓️
top 3 languages:
Spanish -16 texts (19.8%)
Korean - 10 (12.3%)
Japanese - 8 (9.9%)
top 3 languages:
Spanish -16 texts (19.8%)
Korean - 10 (12.3%)
Japanese - 8 (9.9%)
November 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
🗓️#SFinTranslation year in review🗓️
top 3 languages:
Spanish -16 texts (19.8%)
Korean - 10 (12.3%)
Japanese - 8 (9.9%)
top 3 languages:
Spanish -16 texts (19.8%)
Korean - 10 (12.3%)
Japanese - 8 (9.9%)
🗓️#SFinTranslation year in review🗓️
top 3 countries:
Korea - 10 texts (12.3%)
Japan - 8 (9.9%)
Argentina - 7 (8.6)
top 3 countries:
Korea - 10 texts (12.3%)
Japan - 8 (9.9%)
Argentina - 7 (8.6)
November 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
🗓️#SFinTranslation year in review🗓️
top 3 countries:
Korea - 10 texts (12.3%)
Japan - 8 (9.9%)
Argentina - 7 (8.6)
top 3 countries:
Korea - 10 texts (12.3%)
Japan - 8 (9.9%)
Argentina - 7 (8.6)
If you like vampire stories, well, you're in for a treat:
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November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
If you like vampire stories, well, you're in for a treat:
www.sfintranslation.com?p=15881
Japanese #SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=15881
Japanese #SFinTranslation
Reposted by Rachel Cordasco
New & Notable, November 2025
New & Notable, November 2025
Mona Awad, We Love You, Bunny (Marysue Rucci 9/25) A satirical fantasy novel of dark academia getting critical acclaim, this companion to Bunny finds the rich-girl Bunnies furious o…
locusmag.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New & Notable, November 2025
About 10 wild turkeys were wandering around on one of our main streets today. A few days before Thanksgiving. I'm not even kidding.
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
About 10 wild turkeys were wandering around on one of our main streets today. A few days before Thanksgiving. I'm not even kidding.
That time Haikasoru published ALL TEN books in the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series in English ❤️📚
www.sfintranslation.com?p=11089
Japanese #SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=11089
Japanese #SFinTranslation
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
That time Haikasoru published ALL TEN books in the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series in English ❤️📚
www.sfintranslation.com?p=11089
Japanese #SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=11089
Japanese #SFinTranslation
"Balle takes immense care to describe the loneliness of the few mortals doomed to change, grow, shrink, and die in a timeless world," notes critic Jack Rockwell. Read Rockwell’s review of ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (BOOK III) here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
“Stranded in Time”: Memory and Repetition in Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) - Words Without Borders
One of the basic tricks of narrative writing is assigning multiple functions to details. Under the guise of plot, we get characterization. Apparent description begets foreshadowing. Readers, by now…
wordswithoutborders.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Still one of my favorites: BUG by Giacomo Sartori, tr from the Italian by Frederika Randall, from Restless Books!
www.sfintranslation.com?p=10408
Italian #SFinTranslation
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Italian #SFinTranslation
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Still one of my favorites: BUG by Giacomo Sartori, tr from the Italian by Frederika Randall, from Restless Books!
www.sfintranslation.com?p=10408
Italian #SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=10408
Italian #SFinTranslation
“This naïve girl asked me to review her novel and told me straight up to write a negative piece. You must speak badly of it, she said. You have to say it’s obscene garbage.”
From Clelia Farris’s short story “Es and Is” (trans. Rachel Cordasco).
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
From Clelia Farris’s short story “Es and Is” (trans. Rachel Cordasco).
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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“Vanishing World is an extended rumination on nonconformity: what that means and how it plays out in societal and personal interactions.”
Erik R. Lofgren reviews the fourth title by Sayaka Murata to appear in English.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
Erik R. Lofgren reviews the fourth title by Sayaka Murata to appear in English.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
September 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“Vanishing World is an extended rumination on nonconformity: what that means and how it plays out in societal and personal interactions.”
Erik R. Lofgren reviews the fourth title by Sayaka Murata to appear in English.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
Erik R. Lofgren reviews the fourth title by Sayaka Murata to appear in English.
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
Reposted by Rachel Cordasco
This weeks new SFE entries can be found here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php - with Alexander Boldizar, Clelia Farris, Jarosław Grzędowicz, Francis Hamit, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Laila Lalami, Shannon McDermott ... [tbc]
February 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This weeks new SFE entries can be found here: sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php - with Alexander Boldizar, Clelia Farris, Jarosław Grzędowicz, Francis Hamit, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Laila Lalami, Shannon McDermott ... [tbc]
Reposted by Rachel Cordasco
Bourbon Penn 37 is live with brand new stories from Lavie Tidhar, Nick DiChario, Clelia Farris, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick.
@lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social
@lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social
Bourbon Penn 37
Stories by Lavie Tidhar, Clelia Farris, Nick DiChario, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick. Cover art by Brian Haberlin.
www.bourbonpenn.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Bourbon Penn 37 is live with brand new stories from Lavie Tidhar, Nick DiChario, Clelia Farris, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick.
@lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social
@lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social
SFT source language lists – Speculative Fiction in Translation
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November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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New review: Georges Simenon's dark, dark 1948 novel, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑊𝑎𝑠 𝐷𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑦 www.complete-review.com/reviews/sime...
The Snow Was Dirty - Georges Simenon
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Snow Was Dirty by Georges Simenon.
www.complete-review.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New review: Georges Simenon's dark, dark 1948 novel, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑊𝑎𝑠 𝐷𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑦 www.complete-review.com/reviews/sime...
Well that coffee certainly wasn't the decaf that I asked for...
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Well that coffee certainly wasn't the decaf that I asked for...
The two essays that begin the anthology are wonderful introductions to the evolution of the vampire trope in Japanese literature.
Up next: VAMPIRIC: TALES OF BLOOD AND ROSES FROM JAPAN, ed. Heather Dubnick, from Kurodahan Press
www.goodreads.com/book/show/48...
Japanese #SFinTranslation
www.goodreads.com/book/show/48...
Japanese #SFinTranslation
Vampiric: Tales of Blood and Roses from Japan
Japan has always had its own vampire tradition, and has…
www.goodreads.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The two essays that begin the anthology are wonderful introductions to the evolution of the vampire trope in Japanese literature.
Check out my latest joint review with @joachimboaz.bsky.social on Izumi Suzuki's disturbing and fascinating "Terminal Boredom":
sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...
Japanese #SFinTranslation
sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...
Japanese #SFinTranslation
November 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Check out my latest joint review with @joachimboaz.bsky.social on Izumi Suzuki's disturbing and fascinating "Terminal Boredom":
sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...
Japanese #SFinTranslation
sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/11/15/s...
Japanese #SFinTranslation
For more on Kurodahan Press, go here: www.sfintranslation.com?p=15500
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
For more on Kurodahan Press, go here: www.sfintranslation.com?p=15500
Up next: VAMPIRIC: TALES OF BLOOD AND ROSES FROM JAPAN, ed. Heather Dubnick, from Kurodahan Press
www.goodreads.com/book/show/48...
Japanese #SFinTranslation
www.goodreads.com/book/show/48...
Japanese #SFinTranslation
Vampiric: Tales of Blood and Roses from Japan
Japan has always had its own vampire tradition, and has…
www.goodreads.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Up next: VAMPIRIC: TALES OF BLOOD AND ROSES FROM JAPAN, ed. Heather Dubnick, from Kurodahan Press
www.goodreads.com/book/show/48...
Japanese #SFinTranslation
www.goodreads.com/book/show/48...
Japanese #SFinTranslation
Reposted by Rachel Cordasco
Dive into our latest interview with the translators of The Voice of Blood — a powerful collection of short stories by Gabriela Rábago Palafox. Discover how they brought this haunting, lyrical work into English.
Read the full interview on the University of Tampa Press website (link in bio).
Read the full interview on the University of Tampa Press website (link in bio).
October 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Dive into our latest interview with the translators of The Voice of Blood — a powerful collection of short stories by Gabriela Rábago Palafox. Discover how they brought this haunting, lyrical work into English.
Read the full interview on the University of Tampa Press website (link in bio).
Read the full interview on the University of Tampa Press website (link in bio).
Rachel’s SFT Work – Speculative Fiction in Translation
www.sfintranslation.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM