Here's an interview I did with her back in 2019! www.sfintranslation.com?p=7061 #SFinTranslation

Joachim Boaz@joachimboaz.bsky.social · 16h ago

Élisabeth Vonarburg (1947-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... French language SFF in translation. L, Ken Campbell, 1988; R, Stéphane Dumont, 1978 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Élisabeth Vonarburg (1947-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... French language SFF in translation. L, Ken Campbell, 1988; R, Stéphane Dumont, 1978 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

After @joachimboaz.bsky.social pointed out to me that A Trap for Perseus was translated from Czech into German, and then from German into English, I thought about some other interesting translation journeys in #sff: #SFinTranslation

My favorite Holdstock work -- not in that group -- is Where Time Winds Blow (1982). I wrote a very short review (it was overwhelming in a good way) a while back: sciencefictionruminations.com/2021/12/28/s...

Short Book Reviews: Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn (1987), Robert Holdstock’s Where Time Winds Blow (1981), and Philippe Curval’s Brave Old World (1976, trans. 1981)

Note: My read but “waiting to be reviewed pile” is growing. Short rumination/tangents are a way to get through the stack before the new year and my memory/will fades. Unfortunately, I left two…

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Régis Messac (1893-1945) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Lamy, 1972; R, uncredited, 1935 #scifi #sciencefiction #France

Ice by Kavan is spectacular. My thoughts: sciencefictionruminations.com/2015/02/01/b...

Book Review: Ice, Anna Kavan (1967)

(Gene Szafran’s cover for the 1967 edition) 5/5 (Masterpiece) “Despairingly she looked all around. She was completely encircled by the tremendous ice walls, which were made fluid by exp…

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Future Revisitations@futurerevisited.bsky.social · 5d ago

Currently halfway through this extraordinary & captivating novel. As many have already pointed out, ‘hallucinatory‘ is certainly an apt description. A personal quest set against the backdrop of an ambiguous global disaster, with shades of Kafka & Ballard thrown into the mix. Beautifully written.

My review of this wonderful PKD story: sciencefictionruminations.com/2021/03/26/s...

Future Revisitations@futurerevisited.bsky.social · 7d ago

Next in line was one of Philip K. Dick‘s darkest stories, ‘A Little Something for us Tempunauts’, in which a failed time travel experiment results in its beleaguered travellers becoming trapped in a ‘closed time loop’. Certainly more ‘existential horror’ than your standard SF time-paradox tale…

Artist George Wilson (1921-1998) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, 1976; R, 1977 #scifi #sciencefiction #art

Artist John Griffiths (1926-2012) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, 1962; R, 1962 #scifi #sciencefiction #art

Australian SF author Frank Bryning (1907-1999) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Frank Kelly Freas, 1956; R, Mel Hunter, 1955 #scifi #sciencefiction

Robert Holdstock (1948-2009) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Peter Goodfellow, 1986; R, Carl Lundgren, 1982 #scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy

Kathleen Sully's Skrine opens with the title character killing a woman for a pack of cigarettes. He finds just one—and no matches. The grim, raw power of this post-apocalyptic novel places it among some of the bleakest, most nihilistic in all literature. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Gail Kimberly (1927-2011) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Rick Sternbach, 1976; R, Vincent Di Fate, 1975 #scifi #sciencefiction

R. R. Winterbotham (1904-1971) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, uncredited, 1965; R, Leo Morey, 1940 #scifi #sciencefiction

Joseph Greene (1914-1990) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Walter Dey, 1961; R, Walter Dey, 1961 #scifi #sciencefiction

Author and editor Raymond A. Palmer (1910-1977) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Leo Morey, 1939; R, Howard V. Brown, 1938 #scifi #sciencefiction

Virgil Finlay's interior art for Bryce Walton's "Earth Needs a Killer" in Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories (July-August 1950) #scifi #sciencefiction #art

You wouldn't know it from how some people talk, but it is incredibly easy to not use AI for anything.

Arsen Darnay (1936-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Boris Vallejo, 1976; R, Boris Vallejo, 1978 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

French artist René Caillé (1921-2013) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, 1954; R, 1954 #scifi #sciencefiction #art

Arsen Darnay (1936-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Boris Vallejo, 1976; R, Boris Vallejo, 1978 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Like at your own peril. 1 like = 1 answer Note: I write reviews and historical non-fiction! This certainly seems more geared towards writers of fiction. My answers will attempt to answer the question -- or provide a meaningful riff.

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein@deepcuts.blog · 6d ago

Like at your own peril. 1 like = 1 answer

Here's a (fairly hard except for science fiction readers) quiz about "early women science fiction writers": rrhorton.blogspot.com/2026/07/quiz...

Quiz: Early Women Science Fiction Writers (etc.)

As I do many years, I created a quiz for the online trivia league I play in (Learned League.) This year the subject was "Early Women Science...

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Gene Wolfe's shapechanging novel THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS: different every time I read it, always beautiful, always horrifying. open.substack.com/pub/richhort...

Beauty, Mystery, Horror, Shapechanging

The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe

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I imagine James Blish might fall into this camp as well. For those who don't know, he got in arguments with Judith Merril when they were in the Futurians and he called himself a fascist.

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein@deepcuts.blog · last wk.

When we look at Lovecraft's politics, especially his idea of what fascism meant, there are very strong parallels with 18th century ideas of enlightened despotism; Lovecraft was wired to want a strong centralized executive authority directing the economy, so Mussolini's propaganda worked on him.

John Fleming Gould's interior artwork for Lilith Lorraine's "The Jovian Jest" in Astounding Stories of Super-Science (May 1930) #scifi #sciencefiction

Artist John Harris (1948-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, 1984; R, 1986 #scifi #sciencefiction #art

At last, here's the next up in my essay series on Ballantine Adult Fantasy, which dives into the satirical romances of James Branch Cabell and THE SILVER STALLION (1926):

Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Reading “The Silver Stallion” by James Branch Cabell (Biography of the Life of Manuel)

The fifteenth essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, about James Branch Cabell’s The Silver Stallion (1926), a satirical take on the medieval romance that goes to some truly wil…

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Wrote briefly about this one -- huge fan. sciencefictionruminations.com/2020/10/11/s...

SF Film Rumination: Chronopolis, dir. Piotr Kamler (1982)

8/10 (Very Good) Piotr Kamler’s SF film Chronopolis (1982) is a hypnotic exercise in sinister science whose imagery is lifted from an archaic stone vault (1). Against an unsettling patina of …

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John Coulthart@johncoulthart.com · last wk.

Chronopolis (dir: Piotr Kamler, 1982).

John Frankenheimer's Seconds (1966) An adaption of David Ely's equally brilliant 1963 novel by the same name. #scifi #sciencefiction

An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog@hugobookclub.bsky.social · last wk.

What’s the most under-appreciated SFF movie?