When a publicist for Chicago Review Press queried me to review their new translation of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s classic Hard to Be a God, I ditched my usual policy of not doing solicited reviews and accepted the challenge.Īdmittedly, part of my decision was influenced by the release of a new film adaptation of the novel by the recently deceased director Aleksei German. The Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko is a fantastic modern fantasy thriller. Stanislaw Lem was one of my earliest favorites. Personally, I’ve always enjoyed the tone and flavor of eastern European genre work. We’re seeing fantastic translated work such as The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu from China, fine work out of Viz Media, and a rise in the number of translated stories appearing in the short fiction zines. I can speak to this personally, as I’ve had much success with The Apex Book of World SF anthology series. The last five years has seen a resurgence of interest in non-Western European (for the sake of keeping things simple I’ll include the United States, Canada, and Australia in this group) genre fiction.
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