Critical Friends Episode 13: SF In Translation
Jul 07, 2025•55 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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Episode description
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 (SFT), and specifically about those books appearing from small presses based in the US. They discuss recent news on NEA grants to these publishers, the SFT ecosystem in general, and how the literature might reach wider a wider readership.
A transcript of this episode is available at the Strange Horizons website.
Episode Links
Publisher's Weekly article about the NEA funding withdrawal
Rachel Cordasco's list of SFT from Small American Presses
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