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.
press.uillinois.edu
Science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism, weird, etc. from around the world
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#SFinTranslation
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#SFinTranslation
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Check out @cypayseur.bsky.social’s short fiction reviews from @samovarmag.bsky.social, @bafflingmag.bsky.social, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and @diabolicalplots.com -
Samovar, Baffling, Flash Fiction Online, and Diabolical Plots: Review by Charles Payseur
Samovar 7/28/25 Baffling 7/25 Flash Fiction Online 7/29/25 Diabolical Plots 7/25 July also saw the release of a new issue of Strange Horizons’ sibling publication, Samovar, which features short spe…
locusmag.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Check out @cypayseur.bsky.social’s short fiction reviews from @samovarmag.bsky.social, @bafflingmag.bsky.social, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and @diabolicalplots.com -
#SFinTranslation trivia:
The first time we had more than 100 works of short SFT in one year was:
A. 2015
B. 2012
C. 1999
D. 2024
(DON'T LOOK! JUST TAKE YOUR BEST GUESS 🤓)
The first time we had more than 100 works of short SFT in one year was:
A. 2015
B. 2012
C. 1999
D. 2024
(DON'T LOOK! JUST TAKE YOUR BEST GUESS 🤓)
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#SFinTranslation trivia:
The first time we had more than 100 works of short SFT in one year was:
A. 2015
B. 2012
C. 1999
D. 2024
(DON'T LOOK! JUST TAKE YOUR BEST GUESS 🤓)
The first time we had more than 100 works of short SFT in one year was:
A. 2015
B. 2012
C. 1999
D. 2024
(DON'T LOOK! JUST TAKE YOUR BEST GUESS 🤓)
The @fallofcivilizations.com episodes are a treasure trove.
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The @fallofcivilizations.com episodes are a treasure trove.
Working on a piece about #SFinTranslation over the past five years- where it's coming from, who is publishing it, etc. Already getting some VERY interesting info!
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November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Working on a piece about #SFinTranslation over the past five years- where it's coming from, who is publishing it, etc. Already getting some VERY interesting info!
❤️📚🌎🤖👽
❤️📚🌎🤖👽
Yasssssss!!!!! A new episode!!!!!!
⛰️🏔️ Episode 20 is now live! 🏔️⛰️
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
In this episode, we look at the amazing story of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Find out how the world's largest empire rose, flourished, and finally fell in ash and flame.
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRYd...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AeH...
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Yasssssss!!!!! A new episode!!!!!!
Starting ARTIFICIAL TRUTH by J. M. Lee, tr from the Korean by Sean Lin Halbert
#SFinTranslation
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Artificial Truth
From J. M. Lee, a bestselling phenomenon in Korea, come…
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November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Starting ARTIFICIAL TRUTH by J. M. Lee, tr from the Korean by Sean Lin Halbert
#SFinTranslation
www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
#SFinTranslation
www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
Tried to read some Modernist and Symbolist poetry to the kids but after a few lines they put their hands over their ears and started screaming "MAKE IT STOP." 🤦
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Tried to read some Modernist and Symbolist poetry to the kids but after a few lines they put their hands over their ears and started screaming "MAKE IT STOP." 🤦
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any translation publishers out there willing to share how many pitches they receive a year on average?
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
any translation publishers out there willing to share how many pitches they receive a year on average?
Reposted by Rachel Cordasco
Reposted by Rachel Cordasco
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, uncredited, 1975; R, uncredited, 1970
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature
L, uncredited, 1975; R, uncredited, 1970
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c...
L, uncredited, 1975; R, uncredited, 1970
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature
L, uncredited, 1975; R, uncredited, 1970
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature
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New week at SH, and in Reviews we open with a doozy: @shinjinidey.bsky.social on Paul Kincaid's Colourfields (@briardenebooks.bsky.social). Who doesn't love reading a critic on a critic?
So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."
So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."
Colourfields by Paul Kincaid
Colourfields is constituted by tensions inherent to the genre.
strangehorizons.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New week at SH, and in Reviews we open with a doozy: @shinjinidey.bsky.social on Paul Kincaid's Colourfields (@briardenebooks.bsky.social). Who doesn't love reading a critic on a critic?
So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."
So much to pick out in this really productive dialogue. But key: "Kincaid is attempting to apprehend a public."
Reposted by Rachel Cordasco
the problem with the literature curriculum today is that it would only work if students had a long history of reading a variety of texts outside of class for themselves and—by and large—they don't
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the problem with the literature curriculum today is that it would only work if students had a long history of reading a variety of texts outside of class for themselves and—by and large—they don't
#SFinTranslation out today (1/2):
THE WEEK OF COLORS by Elena Garro, tr from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com)
NOT YET GODS by Djuna, tr from the KoreanJihyun Park and Gord Sellar (@kayapress.bsky.social)
THE WEEK OF COLORS by Elena Garro, tr from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com)
NOT YET GODS by Djuna, tr from the KoreanJihyun Park and Gord Sellar (@kayapress.bsky.social)
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
#SFinTranslation out today (1/2):
THE WEEK OF COLORS by Elena Garro, tr from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com)
NOT YET GODS by Djuna, tr from the KoreanJihyun Park and Gord Sellar (@kayapress.bsky.social)
THE WEEK OF COLORS by Elena Garro, tr from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com)
NOT YET GODS by Djuna, tr from the KoreanJihyun Park and Gord Sellar (@kayapress.bsky.social)
Polish #SFinTranslation by Jacek Dukaj!
“Why would the characters in ICE think and speak like Shakespeare's characters?” Jacek Dukaj on his new novel, translated by Ursula Phillips – out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/articles/interviews/why-would-the-characters-in-ice-think-and-speak-like-shakespeares-characters/
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/articles/interviews/why-would-the-characters-in-ice-think-and-speak-like-shakespeares-characters/
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Polish #SFinTranslation by Jacek Dukaj!
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New review: Tóth Krisztina's 𝐸𝑦𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑦 www.complete-review.com/reviews/magy...
Eye of the Monkey - Tóth Krisztina
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Eye of the Monkey by Tóth Krisztina.
www.complete-review.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
New review: Tóth Krisztina's 𝐸𝑦𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑦 www.complete-review.com/reviews/magy...
Danish #SFinTranslation
Time as a Rubik’s Cube: @rachelcordasco.bsky.social reviews the third volume of Solvej Balle's ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell), out soon from @ndbooks.bsky.social!
Time as a Rubik’s Cube: Review of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
Rachel Cordasco Under Review:On the Calculation of Volume, Book III. Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell. New Directions, November 2025. Anglophone readers might b…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Danish #SFinTranslation
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The lamented Kurodahan Press. When will we see its like again?
Including an interview with @elipsett.bsky.social !
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The lamented Kurodahan Press. When will we see its like again?
Including an interview with @elipsett.bsky.social !
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Including an interview with @elipsett.bsky.social !
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My take on THE THOUSAND YEAR BEACH by Tobi Hirotaka (tr from the Japanese by Matt Treyvaud), from Haikasoru:
#SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=15552
#SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=15552
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
My take on THE THOUSAND YEAR BEACH by Tobi Hirotaka (tr from the Japanese by Matt Treyvaud), from Haikasoru:
#SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=15552
#SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=15552
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New on Substack, Jon Baskin and Mike Lipkin continue our series of conversations on graduate education by asking: What does it mean to say humanistic scholars “produce knowledge” in the first place? And is it important to ask what this knowledge is “for”?
Is Humanistic Knowledge Useless?
And so what if it is?
thepointmag.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
New on Substack, Jon Baskin and Mike Lipkin continue our series of conversations on graduate education by asking: What does it mean to say humanistic scholars “produce knowledge” in the first place? And is it important to ask what this knowledge is “for”?
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
Japanese #SFinTranslation
And it's still getting stranger... Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Book of the Year! We're so thrilled and so grateful 🎉
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Japanese #SFinTranslation
Reading about Japanese #SFinTranslation at a French cafe in Wisconsin is very on brand for me 😎.
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Reading about Japanese #SFinTranslation at a French cafe in Wisconsin is very on brand for me 😎.
This was a fun review- from 2019
Asamatsu Ken's KTHULHU REICH, tr. Jim Rion (from Kurodahan)
Japanese #SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=7085
Asamatsu Ken's KTHULHU REICH, tr. Jim Rion (from Kurodahan)
Japanese #SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=7085
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
This was a fun review- from 2019
Asamatsu Ken's KTHULHU REICH, tr. Jim Rion (from Kurodahan)
Japanese #SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=7085
Asamatsu Ken's KTHULHU REICH, tr. Jim Rion (from Kurodahan)
Japanese #SFinTranslation
www.sfintranslation.com?p=7085