7 July 2025

i and màmá, two moons, two eclipsed suns.

Tell me, can God sing / like a katydid; cicada-bellow / for the seventeen silent years?

Critical Friends Episode 13: SFF in Translation

By: Dan Hartland
By: Will McMahon
By: Rachel Cordasco

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Dan Hartland speaks with reviewers and critics Rachel Cordasco and Will McMahon about science fiction in translation.

Reviews

Monday: The Fake Muse by Max Besora, translated by Mara Faye Lethem

By: Will McMahon

Tuesday: Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro, translated by Eve Hill-Agnus

By: Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira

Wednesday: The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain

By: Jake Casella Brookins

Thursday: Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani

By: Dan Hartland

Friday: BUG by Giacomo Sartori, translated by Frederika Randall

By: Rachel Cordasco

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