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Sonali Bendre is currently reading Matt Haig s book The Midnight Library with fellow readers in her book club. The premise seems very intriguing - somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each on the story of another reality, she posted about the book.
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Reese Witherspoon If you love a mystery, then you’ll devour this month’s @reesesbookclub pick, #NorthernSpy by @flynnberryauthor, Reese Witherspoon posted on Instagram.
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Reese Witherspoon s YA book recommendation
Meanwhile, for young adult readers Reese s book club has chosen Angeline Boulley s Fire Keeper s Daughter for April 2021.
Back in 2019, Netflix released an intriguing animated project called
Love, Death + Robots, an anthology series made up of 18 standalone shorts that adapted a number of short stories from some prominent science fiction authors.
After a long wait, Netflix has released a trailer for the next season, which is set to debut on the platform on May 14th.
The series was created by Tim Miller (the director of
Deadpool) and produced by Joshua Donen, David Fincher, and Jennifer Miller, originally as a remake of the film
Heavy Metal. Following the success of
That first season contained a number of stories from authors like Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds, John Scalzi, Joe Landsale, Ken Liu, Marko Kloos, David Amendola, Steven Lewis, Kirsten Cross, and Michael Swanwick, with a couple of other episodes that weren’t adapted from existing stories.
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I spend a lot of time (emphasis on A LOT) thinking about, reading, watching, listening to true crime in many iterations. I also spend a lot of time thinking about and consuming sci-fi, fantasy, and horror media. Never has it occurred to me that there might be a correlation.
But then, I consider my deep fascination with Heaven’s Gate and equally deep love of Star Trek, because of the homage the cult paid to the franchise (when Heaven’s Gate members died by suicide, convinced that was their boarding pass onto the Hale-Bopp comet, they sported arm patches that read “Heaven’s Gate Away Team”).
There’s plenty of compelling science fiction, fantasy, and genre-defying fiction being written and published in English; of that there is no doubt. But there’s even more work being written in these genres in other languages that isn’t necessarily appearing in English translation; a quick look at the overall numbers on translation bears that out. There are people and institutions pushing back against this Ken Liu’s work as an editor and translator comes to mind, as does Restless Books’ commitment to releasing an array of Cuban science fiction.
They aren’t the only ones working to increase the amount of translated work out there, however. What follows is a look at six books that recently appeared in translation. Some are distinctly fantastical, science fictional, or horrific; others blend elements of all three genres. They’re all compelling reads in their own right; they’re also a very small fraction of the genre work being written in other languages.