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9 Great Books of SFF in Translation

By John Folk-Williams

Frankenstein in Baghdad - SFF in translation

Anticipating reading resolutions for next year, one is definitely to review more SFF in translation. Over the past couple of years of blogging, I’m appalled to see that I’ve only reviewed nine translated works, though each of these is a masterpiece in its own way. If I were to include all the international SFF I’ve […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF, Science Fiction in Translation Tagged With: Ahmed Saadawi, Bruno Schulz, Clelia Farris, Dino Buzzati, Francesco Verso, Mohamed Kheir, Olga Tokarczuk, Rita Carla Francesca Monticelli, Stanisław Lem

Fables of Need: this census-taker by China Miéville and The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati

By John Folk-Williams

This Census-Taker by China Mieville

I’m not sure what leads me to link these two books, as different and far apart in time as they are, but China Miéville’s this census-taker (2016)and Dino Buzzati’s The Tartar Steppe (1938) strike me as fables of human need. I’m not even sure what I mean by that, except that each book tells a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, International Speculative Fiction, Reviews Tagged With: boyhood, China Miéville, Dino Buzzati, fable, glory, magic, military, mountains, The City & The City, trauma

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