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Understanding the Alien in Eden by Stanisław Lem

By John Folk-Williams

Understanding the Alien in Eden by Stanislaw Lem

Is understanding the alien even possible for the human mind? That is the question posed by Stanisław Lem‘s Eden, a 1958 novel translated by Marc E. Heine for publication in English in 1989. And has anyone ever had a more exuberant imagination than this great Polish writer in presenting baffling alien civilizations for humans to […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction in Translation, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: alien life forms, alien minds, first contact, human, spaceships, Stanisław Lem

Fantasy City: The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

By John Folk-Williams

The Street of Crociles by Bruno Schulz

Bruno Schulz’ The Street of Crocodiles (1934), translated by Celina Cieniewska for a 1989 edition, is one of those completely original works that defies categorization. I guess I would call it fantastika. It’s a linked collection of stories about a boy’s view of his Polish hometown filtered through the adult mind of an amazing writer. […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Science Fiction in Translation Tagged With: Bruno Schulz, China Mieville, city, fantastika, fantasy, transformation

Red Desert Series by Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Red Desert Point of No Return by Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli

Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli’s Red Desert four-part series reads like a single captivating novel with a fascinating character named Anna Persson at its core. She’s an exobiologist sent on a mission to colonize Mars, yet her impulsive, angry, headstrong nature breaks the psychological mold of an astronaut and plunges her into one difficult situation after […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Indie SciFi, Reviews, Science Fiction in Translation Tagged With: alien minds, first contact, Mars, space colonies

Nexhuman by Francesco Verso

By John Folk-Williams

Nexhuman by Francesco Verso

Nexhuman by Francesco Verso brilliantly blends the story of a young man’s obsessive love for a transhuman being with a vivid depiction of a consumerist society strangling on its own trash. Skillfully translated by Sally McCorry, the novel poses powerful questions about what it means to be human. We see this world through the eyes […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Science Fiction in Translation Tagged With: Francesco Verso, Frankenstein, immortality, love, Nexhuman, society, transhuman

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

By John Folk-Williams

Frankenstein in Baghdad, story, monster, truth

In Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, it takes a neighborhood of strange characters, rather than an over-reaching scientist as with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, to create a monster. And it takes a good story, whether or not it is true, just so long as it is believed. There are many stories and levels of truth in […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Science Fiction in Translation Tagged With: Baghdad, Frankenstein, justice, Mary Shelley, narrative, story-telling, truth, war

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Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us into a barely conceivable future. This blog is my small way of exploring the half-perceived … Read More about About

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