Fiction In Translation

translated by Ken Liu 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will sh...

Here are thirteen short stories from the new frontiers of Chinese science fiction, selected and translated by Hugo, Nebula, Locus and World Fantasy...

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates...

A new anthology of Chinese short-fiction by award winning author Ken Liu. Here are sixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking SFF writers, e...

translated by Ken Liu Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. She's a 'waste girl', a scavenger picking through towering heaps of hazardous electron...

translated by Sarah Moses It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governmen...

Translated by Ken Liu AD2201. Just over a century ago, the Martian colonies declared their independence. After a brief conflict, Earth and Mars cut...

translated by Joel Martinsen Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival ...

Translated by Joel Martinsen Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new star bloom...

translated by Joel Martinsen Chen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's interest in his dis...

translated by Ken Liu Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of Time continues Cixin Liu’...

Translated by Thomas Bunstead In a chaotic city, the latest in a line of viruses advances as a man recounts the fated steps that led him to be conf...

translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver The Cosmicomics tell the story of the history of the universe, from the big bang, thr...

translated by David Tse An entire month has gone missing from Chinese records. No one has any memory of it, and no one seems to care except for a s...

Translated by Flora Drew Called "Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut... powerful!" by Margaret Atwood on Twitter, China Dream is an unflinching satire of...

An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes. Stanislaw Lem's Return from the Stars recount...

Translated by Bill Johnston A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines. In the grand...

Translated by William Brand An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking plac...

Translated by Michael Kandel Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space. By pure chance, scientists ...

translated by Sally-Ann Spencer Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone mu...