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The Employees by Olga Ravn, Translated by Martin Aitken

By John Folk-Williams

The Emplyees by Olga Ravn

The Employees by Olga Ravn, in a beautiful translation from the Danish by Martin Aitken, requires a suspension of expectations about science fiction but nevertheless delivers a devastating impact. As a collection of statements by the crew members of a spaceship, both human and humanoid, it has little narrative drive at first, though it does […]

Filed Under: International Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction in Translation Tagged With: androids, corporate dystopia, human emotion, memory, Olga Ravn, spaceships, transhuman

New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction, Edited by Neil Clarke, Xia Jia, Regina Kanyu Wang

By John Folk-Williams

New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction

In her introduction to New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction, Xia Jia explains how she and the other editors selected and found translators for the work of eight writers who had never before had their stories presented to the English-speaking world. I found the eight stories the editors chose to be fascinating. Several are brilliant […]

Filed Under: International Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction in Translation, Short Fiction Tagged With: artificial intelligence, Chinese science fiction, death, neuroscience, robots, tradition, virtual reality

10 Novels for My SFF TBR – Summer Edition

By John Folk-Williams

Embertide

Taking on the SFF TBR is like climbing a mountain that keeps growing and expanding as you dig in and inch upward. It’s a little like the problem Sisyphus had with his boulder, but instead of doing the same thing over and over, the path before you keeps changing. It’s full of interesting byways, occasional […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, International Speculative Fiction, Taking on My SciFi TBR Tagged With: Geetha Krishnan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jadie Jang, Jonathan Nevair, Liz Williams, Olga Ravn, Scott Hawkins, T.A. Bruno, Tasha Suri, Xia Jia

One Arm Shorter Than The Other by Gigi Ganguly

By John Folk-Williams

One Arm Shorter Than The Other by Gigi Ganguly

Gigi Ganguly’s One Arm Shorter Than The Other begins quietly enough in 1986 as a grandfather, Maurice, a resident of Delhi, like all the characters of this beautiful debut novella, wanders in the past of his memory. That habit worries his son James, who thinks dwelling in memories is unhealthy. James feels that his father […]

Filed Under: Indie SciFi, International Speculative Fiction Tagged With: androids, family, Gigi Ganguly, hopeful future, memory, South Asian fiction, time, time travel

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction – 2021

By John Folk-Williams

Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2021

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, reprints 29 gripping stories that test the limits of everyday reality. As diverse as the stories are, most of them push their characters across boundaries between this world and the spirit world, between past and present, human and robot, the living and the […]

Filed Under: International Speculative Fiction, Short Fiction Tagged With: Africa, Africanfuturism, alternate worlds, ancestors, robots, self-worth, sentient beings, spirits

Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk

By John Folk-Williams

Primeval by Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk’s Primeval and Other Times, finely translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, is a uniquely fantastical search through the multiple worlds and forms of time found in the life of a fictional village in Poland during the 20th century. I’ve never read anything like it. On one level, it depicts the lives of a group of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, International Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction in Translation Tagged With: angels, being, multiple worlds, Olga Tokarczuk, Poland, souls, time, twentieth century, war

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