Recommendation: Death Sentences by Kawamata Chiaki

I recently received a review copy of Japanese author Kawamata Chiaki's classic 1984 novel, Death Sentences, translated by Thomas Lamarre and Kazuko Y. Behrens and published by the University of Minnesota Press. I've been raving about this book on Twitter recently. It's absolutely fantastic - a mixture of Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and Surrealism: the story of a...

Trailer: Kung Fu Zero

Cause it's Wednesday! New Chinese kung fu steampunk movie Kung Fu Zero.

Tuesday Fiction: “Don’t Move a Muscle, Mr. Liberty” by Jordan Ellinger

Today's Tuesday Fiction is by Jordan Ellinger. Jordan is a recent first place winner in the Writers of the Future Contest and is a Clarion West graduate. His work can be seen in Gotrek & Felix: The Anthology, Hammer & Bolter, and Story Portals. He has two graphic novels in various stages of development: The...

Turkish SF: The Book of Madness by Levent Şenyürek

The Book of Madness is a collection of ten short science fiction stories by Levent Şenyürek, translated from the Turkish by Feyza Howell. It was published in 2009, and is available on Amazon.   The Booklist review says: Sf is often set elsewhere than in its writer’s homeland and time, so the fact that stories in this Turkish...

Lavie Tidhar talks World SF 2

Grasping for the wind has just posted a new interview with me about international speculative fiction and editing The Apex Book of World SF 2, with some comments from anthology contributors Rochita Loenen-Ruiz and Silvia Moreno Garcia. The Apex Book of World SF is now out in paperback and on the Kindle! SFFWRTCHT: How long does...

Short Story Highlight: “Terminós” by Dean Francis Alfar

We featured one of Dean Francis Alfar's stories yesterday, and here's another! From the latest issue of Expanded Horizons: Terminós: Mr. Henares thinks about time From the moment he opened his eyes in the morning to the instant before he fell asleep alone at night, Mr. Henares thought only about time. He reflected about how time slowed...

Short Story Highlight: “The New Daughter” by Dean Francis Alfar (Philippines)

Apex Book of World SF contributor Dean Francis Alfar has a new story up at Philippine Genre Stories - The New Daughter: When the boy inevitably grew up, married and moved away with his own growing family, the toymaker decided to make a girl.  He did it this time in secret, afraid of what his...

Announcing Europa SF

Europa SF is a new portal for science fiction and fantasy news from all around Europe. Currently on the site is a report on SF/F in Lithuania; Hungary SF Summary 2012; German SF in the New Millennium, and much more! The Europa SF team is: Ahrvid Engholm – Sweden Antuza Genescu – Romania Aleksandar Ziljak –...

Angel G. Angelov’s The Act of Walking on Water (Bulgaria)

Over at Locus Roundtable, Harry Markov discusses Angel G. Angelov's 1009 short story collection The Act of Walking on Water: Despite my good intentions, I have never served as a connoisseur of international fiction, given I own a small tomb of books I’ve been building since I first started reading in English. English still possesses...