Translation Award Short Fiction Finalists Online

Several of the short stories nominated for this year's SF&F translation Award are now available for free online. From the award website: We are pleased to report that a number of the short fiction finalists for our awards are being made available online. Currently you can find the following stories: “The Fish of Lijiang” by Chen...

Short Story Highlight: The Boy Who Cast No Shadow by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

PS Publishing are offering a free download of Dutch writer Thomas Olde Heuvelt's story The Boy Who Cast No Shadow, translated by Laura Vroomen. The story is currently a nominee for the SF&F Translation Award and won the Paul Harland Award for best Dutch story of the Fantastic in 2010. It was first published in English...

2011 South African SF/F in Review

2011 - A Year South African Speculative Fiction Gathers Momentum By Sarah Lotz, Nick Wood and Tanya Barben   2011 has been a bursting year for South African speculative fiction, as it gathers further pace and push from the heralding, punchy impact of Lauren Beukes's first two novels. (2011 being split almost mid-year by the...

Short Story Highlight: “Enter The Dragon. Later, Enter Another” by Lavie Tidhar

Just wanted to draw your attention to a short story I published on my blog yesterday: Enter The Dragon. Later, Enter Another - which deals with a future increasingly dominated by the effects of multiple WikiLeaks... 1. Julian Assange’s Impenetrable Fortress of Ice lies on top of Mount Terror, on Ross Island in Antarctica. It...

Short Story Highlight: “Faithful City” by Michael Pevzner

The latest issue of Apex Magazine has published the debut of Israeli author Michael Pevzner, short story Faithful City. I’m not a music person. Father has all sorts of things in the house that can still play, and he listens to them on occasion, but I never cared. I have no need of borrowed emotions;...

Short Story Highlight: “The House of Aunts” by Zen Cho

We've not had the opportunity to run many of these short story highlights this year, which is a shame, as they allow us to showcase specific stories as and when they appear. We've featured Malaysian author Zen Cho once before (and hope to have an interview with her soon) - her latest work of fiction...

Mexican authors in latest issue of Flurb Magazine

The 11th issue of Rudy Rucker's Flurb, guest-edited by Eileen Gunn, features no less than 3 Mexican writers, Alberto Chimal, Bernardo Fernández (also known as BEF), and Pepe Rojo. The stories are published in both the original Spanish and in the English translation. Hotels, by Alberto Chimal (translated by Carmen Valderrama): n Reykjavik, there is a study...

Short Story Highlight: “The Fish of Lijiang” by Chen Qiufan

Great news and major kudos to Clarkesworld Magazine for publishing in their latest issue the short story The Fish of Lijiang by Chinese author Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu. The author will also have a new short story, "The Tomb", in the forthcoming Apex Book of World SF 2. Two fists are before my...

Short Story Highlight: “The Widow and the Xir” by Indrapramit Das

Our latest short story highlight is The Widow and the Xir, by Indian writer Indrapramit Das, published in Apex Magazine: Namir watches his wife and son as they sift baking salt-pans under the sun. They help gather the wet mounds of white clay that will be turned to dry powder later. If they see him,...

Short Story Highlight: “Unathi Battles The Black Hairballs” by Lauren Beukes

South African author, winner of the recent Clarke Award,  Lauren Beukes' new story, "Unathi Battles The Black Hairballs" (originally published in South African anthology Home Away in 2010) is now available to read online at SFX Magazine: Unathi was singing karaoke when the creature attacked Tokyo. Or rather, she was about to sing karaoke. Was, in fact,...