Speculative Fiction in Translation: Novels, Collections, and Short Stories 2017

NOVELS

• Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (Riverhead Books, January 10) [Argentina]
• The Mountains of Parnassus by Czeslaw Milosz, translated from the Polish by Stanley Bill (Yale University Press, January 10) [Poland]
• The Book of the Dead by Orikuchi Shinobu, translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles (University of Minnesota Press, January 16) [Japan]
• Spells by Michel de Ghelderode, translated from the French by George MacLennan (Wakefield Press, January 24) [Belgium]
• Record of a Night too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami, translated from the Japanese by Lucy North (Pushkin Press, January 26) [Japan]
• Bodies of Summer by Martin Felipe Castagnet, translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle (Dalkey Archive Press, January 27) [Argentina]
• 2084 by Boualem Sansal, translated from the French by Alison Anderson (Europa Editions, January 31) [Algeria]
• ŠRDN: From Bronze and Darkness by Andrea Atzori, translated from the Italian by Nigel Ross (Acheron Books, February 3) [Italy]
• The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria, translated from the Italian by Ramon Glazov (Liveright, February 7) [Italy]
• Only She Sees by Manel Loureiro, translated from the Spanish by Andres Alfaro (Amazon Crossing, February 7) [Spain]
• Radiant Terminus by Antoine Volodine, translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Open Letter, February 7) [France]
• Blumenberg by Sibylle Lewitscharoff, translated from the German by Weiland Hoban (Seagull Books, February 15) [Germany]
• Frontier by Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Open Letter, March 14) [China]
• Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski, translated from the Polish by David French (Orbit, March 14) [Poland]
• Orbital Cloud by Taiyo Fujii, translated from the Japanese by Timothy Silver (Haikasoru, March 21) [Japan]
• Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel, translated from the French by Rupert Copeland Cunningham (New Directions, March 28) [France]
• Kzradock the Onion Man by Louis Levy, translated from the Danish by W. C. Bamberger (Wakefield Press, March 28) [Denmark]
• The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan, translated from the Russian by Yuri Machkasov (Amazon Crossing, April 25) [Armenia]
• Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre, translated from the French by Kaiama L. Glover (Akashic Books, May 2) [Haiti]
• Hexagrammaton by Hanuš Seiner, translated from the Czech by Julie Novakova (Tor Books, May 10) [Czech Republic]
• The Invented Part by Rodrigo Fresan, translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter, May 16) [Argentina]
• In the Name of the Father and Other Stories by Balla, translated from the Slovak by Julia and Peter Sherwood (Jantar Publishing, May 17) [Slovakia]
• The King in the Golden Mask by Marcel Schwob, translated from the French by Kit Schluter (Wakefield Press, May 23) [France]
• The Sacred Era by Yoshio Aramaki, translated from the Japanese by Baryon Tensor Posadas (University of Minnesota Press, May 23) [Japan]
• The Irish Sea by Carlos Maleno, translated from the Spanish by Eric Kurtzke (Dalkey Archive Press, May 26) [Spain]
• Listening For Jupiter by Pierre-Luc Landry, translated from the French by Arielle Aronson and Madeleine Stratford (Baraka Books, June 1) [Quebec]
• Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino, translated from the Japanese by Charles De Wolf (Akashic Books, June 6) [Japan]
• Familiar Things by Hwang Sok-yong, translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell (Scribe UK, June 8) [Korea]
• You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann, translated from the German by Ross Benjamin (Pantheon, June 13) [Germany]
• Aberrant by Marek Šindelka, translated from the Czech by Nathan Fields (Twisted Spoon Press, June 15) [Czech Republic]
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes Volume 4: Stratagem by Yoshiki Tanaka, translated from the Japanese by Tyran Grillo (Haikasoru, June 20) [Japan]
• In Search of the Grail by Svetislav Basara, translated from the Serbian by Randall A. Major (Dalkey Archive Press, June 23) [Serbia]
• Amatka by Karin Tidbeck, translated from the Swedish by the author (Vintage, June 27) [Sweden]
• Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne, translated from the French by Alex Kirsutakas (Wesleyan University Press, July 11) [France]
• The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy (Other Press, July 18) [Sweden]
• The Dying Game by Asa Avdic, translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles (Penguin, August 1) [Sweden]
• Heavens on Earth by Carmen Boullosa, translated from the Spanish by Shelby Vincent (Deep Vellum, August 15) [Mexico]
• Impermanence by Daniel Frisano, translated from the Italian by Sarah Jane Webb (independently published, August 20) [Italy]
• I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy (Riverrun, September 7) [Sweden]
• Quantum Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner Volume 2 by Yu Godai, translated from the Japanese by Kevin Frane (Bento Books, September 13) [Japan]
• A Small Charred Face by Kazuki Sakuraba, translated from the Japanese by Jocelyne Allen (Haikasoru, September 19) [Japan]
• Heaven on Earth by Fadi Zaghmout, translated from the Arabic by Sawad Hussain (Signal 8 Press, September 26) [Jordan]
• Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield (Chicago Review Press, October 1) [Russia]
• Archeon by Alessandro Tagliapietra, translated from the Italian by Patricia Keiller (independently published, November 6) [Italy]
• Malacqua by Nicola Pugliese, translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside (And Other Stories, November 16) [Italy]
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes Volume 5: Mobilization by Yoshiki Tanaka, translated from the Japanese by Tyran Grillo (Haikasoru, November 21) [Japan]
• S(Es) by Koji Suzuki, translated from the Japanese by Greg Gencarello (Vertical, December 19) [Japan]

COLLECTIONS

• Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (Hogarth, February 21) [Argentina]
• Moon Scars by Àngel Luis Sucasas, translated from the Spanish by James Womack (Nevsky Books, March 1) [Spain]
• Our Dead World by Liliana Colanzi, translated from the Spanish by Jessica Sequeira (Dalkey Archive Press, May 26) [Bolivia]
• Bullseye! by Yasutaka Tsutsui, translated from the Japanese by Andrew Driver (Kurodahan Press, July 11) [Japan]
• The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Volume 3, eds. Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, Rakesh Khanna, Vinod, and Nirmal Rajagopalan, various translators (Blaft Publications, August 30) [India]
• The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu, translated from the Chinese by ? (Head of Zeus, October 5) [China]

SHORT STORIES

January

• “In Broad Daylight” by C. P. Cavafy, translated from the Greek by Nicholas Kostis, The Short Story Project
• “Milla” by Lorenzo Crescentini and Emanuela Valentini, translated from the Italian by Rich Larson, Clarkesworld Magazine
• Excerpt from Orbital Cloud by Taiyo Fujii, translated from the Japanese by Timothy Silver, The Verge
• “Axes on Viola” by Jaroslav Mostecký, translated from the Czech by the author, Mithila Review

February

• “Rain Ship” by Chi Hui, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak, Clarkesworld Magazine
• “The Song We Sang Every Day” by Luciano Lamberti, translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle, The Short Story Project
• “The Terminator” by Laurence Suhner, translated from the French by Sheryl Curtis, Nature

March

• “Scenes from the Life of an Autocrat,” by Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette, World Literature Today
• “Funnyway” by Serge Brussolo, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin, Weird Fiction Review
• “Sun of Sulfur” by Serge Brussolo, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin, Weird Fiction Review
• “Fairyland” by Magdalena Hai, translated from the Finnish by J.Robert Tupasela, Finnish Weird #4
• “Lost and Found” by Maria Haskins, translated from the Swedish by the author, StarShipSofa
• “The Objects” by Yuri Herrera, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman, World Literature Today
• Excerpt from The Monkey and the New Moon by Viivi Hyvönen, translated from the Finnish by the author, Finnish Weird #4
• “Goodnight, Melancholy” by Xia Jia, translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu, Clarkesworld Magazine
• “Cyber-proletarian,” by Claudia Salazar Jiménez, translated from the Spanish by George Henson, World Literature Today
• “Wither and Blossom” by Suvi Kauppila, translated from the Finnish by the author, Samovar Magazine
• “Two Episodes” by Alfred Leman, translated from the German by Erik Simon, Weird Fiction Review
• “Forever, As Always” by J. S. Meresmaa, translated from the Finnish by J. Robert Tupasela, Finnish Weird #4
• “Terra Nullius” by Hanuš Seiner, translated from the Czech by Julie Nováková, Strange Horizons
• “Faces and Thoughts” by Abdul wakil Sulamal, translated from the Pashto by James Caron, Samovar Magazine
• “Shira” (reprint) by Lavie Tidhar, translated from the Hebrew by the author, Samovar Magazine
• “Another Love Story” by Uzi Weil, translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston, The Short Story Project

April

• “Jacob Wallenstein, Notes For a Future Biography” by Shay Azoulay, translated from the Hebrew by the author, The Short Story Project
• “The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales” by Fei Dao, translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu, Clarkesworld Magazine

May

• “Vigil Night” by Lorenzo Crescentini, translated from the Italian by Davide Mana, Weirdbook #35
• “The Person Who Saw Cetus” by Tang Fei, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu, Clarkesworld Magazine
• “The Last Refuge” by Eduardo Goligorsky, translated from the Spanish by Andrea Bell, Strange Horizons
• “The Beautiful Thieves” by Martin Kluger, translated from the German by Sinéad Crowe, The Short Story Project
• “The Spirit of Madame De Genlis (A Spiritualistic Occurrence)” by Nikolai Leskov, translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, The Short Story Project

June

• “The Person You Are Trying To Reach is Not Available” by Andrea Chapela, translated from the Spanish by the author, Samovar Magazine
• “A Mortal Legend” by Marcelo Cohen, translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude, Samovar Magazine
• “An Account of the Sky Whales” by A Que, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak, Clarkesworld Magazine
• “Your Microwave” by Philipp Schönthaler, translated from the German by Amanda DeMarco, The Short Story Project
• “Black Hole Heart” by K. A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman, Apex Magazine

August

• “A Dwarf’s Tale” by Georg Klein, translated from the German by Imogen Taylor, The Short Story Project
• “Oblivion is a Crease Left by Memory” by Chen Qiufan, translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu, seat14c.com
• “The Story of Your Heart,” by Josué Ramos, translated from the Spanish by Sue Burke, Steampunk Writers Around the World – Volume I
• “An Age of Ice” by Zhang Ran, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak, Clarkesworld Magazine
• “The Angels Who Wiped My Fate Clean” by Kemal Varol, translated from the Turkish by Dayla Rogers, Words Without Borders
• “Bear Ears” by Carolina Vegas, translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle, The Short Story Project

September

• Special Folio on SF in Translation by Women in Anomaly 25
• “A Spell to Invoke the White Dolphin” by Jeon Sam-hye, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur
• “The Great Beast” by Anne Richter, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin
• “Valentine’s Day” by Xia Jia, translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu
• “The Attack of the Zombies, Part 1,523” by Raquel Castro, translated from the Spanish by Lawrence Schimel
• “Born Out of the Frost” by Mélanie Fazi, translated from the French by Lynn E. Palermo
• “Fish Tank Creatures” by Dorothy Tse, translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce and Nicky Harman
• “Tears and Honey” by Serena Fiandro, translated from the Italian by Rachel Cordasco
• “As the Sun Crashed” by Katja Bohnet, translated from the German by Rachel Hildebrandt
• “The Perfect Chord” by Laurence Suhner, translated from the French by Sheryl Curtis
• “The Gates of Balawat” by Maria Haskins, translated from the Swedish by the author, Samovar Magazine
• “A Man Out of Fashion” by Chen Qiufan, translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu, Clarkesworld Magazine
• “Möbius Continuum” by Gu Shi, translated from the Chinese by S. Qiouyi Lu, Clarkesworld Magazine
• “The Colour that Defines Me” by Stamatis Stamatopoulos, translated from the Greek by the author and Stephanie Polakis, Samovar Magazine
• “For Isabel,” by Antonio Tabucchi, translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris, Guernica
• “Lu Xun, Demon Hunter” by Pan Haitian, translated from the Chinese by Nick Stember, LARB China Channel
• “The Fortean Limes” by Yoss, translated from the Spanish by Lawrence Schimel, Litro

October

• “Judo” by Rasha Abbas, translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger, Samovar Magazine
• “‘Don’t Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree’” by Hassan Blasim, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright, Bookanista (originally in The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat)
• “The Weirdo” by Davide Camparsi, translated from the Italian by Michael Colbert, The Dark Magazine
• “Insomnia” by Oliverio Coelho, translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude, The Short Story Project
• “Impress Me, Then We’ll Talk About the Money” by Tatiana Ivanova, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman, Unidentified Funny Objects
• “The Psychology Game” by Xia Jia, translated from the Chinese by Emily Jin and Ken Liu, Clarkesworld Magazine
• “The Darwinist” by Diaa Jubaili, translated from the Arabic by Alexander Hong, Strange Horizons

November

• “The Room” by Lorenzo Crescentini, translated by Simon O. Mara, Twilight Madhouse Vol 2
  
• “With a Wink of the Heron’s Eye” by Jean-Claude Dunyach, translated from the French by Sheryl Curtis, Galaxy’s Edge
• “House Taken Over” by Yuri Herrera, translated from the Spanish by Lisa M. Dillman, Words Without Borders
• “Untilted” by K. A. Teryna, translated from the Russian by Alex Shvartsman, Apex Magazine
• “The Catalog of Virgins” by Nicoletta Vallorani, translated from the Italian by Rachel Cordasco, Clarkesworld Magazine
• “Convince Me” by Jiang Yitan, translated from the Chinese by Alexander Clifford, Read Paper Republic

December

• “A Day to Remember” by Clelia Farris, translated from the Italian by Rachel Cordasco, Samovar Magazine
• “Dust” by Florin Purluca, translated from the Romanian by Klaudia Stan, Samovar Magazine
• Supersonic #9 Special English Issue [Spain]
• “Francine (draft for the September lecture)” by Maria Antònia Martí Escayol, translated by Sue Burke
• “Herbarium” by Layla Martínez, translated by Lawrence Schimel
• “Mimicry” by Daniel Pérez Navarro, translated by Lawrence Schimel
• “First Blood” by Israel Alonso, translated by Lawrence Schimel
• “Wake Up and Dream” by Josué Ramos, translated by Sue Burke
• “‘Tis a Pity She Was A Whore” by Juan Manuel Santiago, translated by Sue Burke