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Hugos There PodcastZoomed Out: Speculative Fiction In Translation, with Rachel CordascoThis time it’s another Zoomed Out episode, focusing on Speculative Fiction in Translation (SFT), with guest Rachel Cordasco. Below I’ve captured some of her recommendations. There are some light spoilers in the episode, but nothing that should detract from your enjoyment of these books and authors. Notes & Links: Ways to support the podcast: Buy … Continue reading "Zoomed Out: Speculative Fiction In Translation, with Rachel Cordasco"2024-08-011h 07Hugos There PodcastZoomed Out: Speculative Fiction In Translation, with Rachel CordascoThis time it’s another Zoomed Out episode, focusing on Speculative Fiction in Translation (SFT), with guest Rachel Cordasco. Below I’ve captured some of her recommendations. There are some light spoilers in the episode, but nothing that should detract from your enjoyment of these books and authors. Notes & Links: Ways to support the podcast: Buy … Continue reading "Zoomed Out: Speculative Fiction In Translation, with Rachel Cordasco"2024-08-011h 07Hugos There PodcastZoomed Out: Speculative Fiction In Translation, with Rachel CordascoThis time it’s another Zoomed Out episode, focusing on Speculative Fiction in Translation (SFT), with guest Rachel Cordasco. Below I’ve captured some of her recommendations. There are some light spoilers in the episode, but nothing that should detract from your enjoyment of these books and authors. Notes & Links: Ways to support the podcast: Buy … Continue reading "Zoomed Out: Speculative Fiction In Translation, with Rachel Cordasco"2024-08-011h 07
Sci Fi Around The WorldSFATW - 005 - Denmark - Data for Death - Johannes AllenSFATW - 005 - Denmark- Data for Death - Johannes Allen
We are visiting Denmark today, a very middle of the road book, nothing great, nothing terrible, just OK
Here's a link to Rachel S. Cordasco;s twitter page where you can be updated on translated Sci Fi and Fantasy books:
https://twitter.com/Rcordas
Here's a link to the blog:
https://scifiaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/search/label/Denmark
Link to the bookstore:
https://www.booklovers.co.uk/
Thanks as always2023-07-0637 min
Spare Rib DartmouthIn Defense of YA by Rachel RonckaWelcome to the Spare Rib Audio Zine. Spare Rib is a student-run feminist organization located at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. This is "In Defense of YA" by Rachel Roncka from the Joy edition, published Summer 2023. Read by Rachel Roncka, page designed by Chloe Cordasco with art by Kaitlyn Anderson.To read this piece and other work by Spare Rib staff, please visit our website: spareribdartmouth.comSpecial thanks to Dartmouth College Radio for lending Spare Rib their time and space, making this audio zine possible. To check out their other works and 24-hour radio...2023-06-3008 min
Two Month ReviewTMR Fresán Relisten Ep. 16: "Wuthering Heights Is Weird" [THE DREAMED PART] Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: Chad reaches a new quarantine low at the beginning of this week's episode (highly recommend checking out the video version), but after a lot of banter and deep dives into in...2023-05-011h 15
Two Month ReviewFresán Relisten Ep. 5: The Invented Part [Pgs. 208-230]Welcome to the Great Fresan Relisten of 2023! Over the next four weeks, we'll be reissuing an episode a day from the The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part seasons of TMR so that you can catch-up, refresh your memory, have a few laughs, etc., before the May 10th launch of Season 19 on The Remembered Part. Here are the show notes from the original airing: This week, Speculative Fiction in Translation founder and Best Translated Book Award judge Rachel Cordasco joins Chad and Brian to talk about the nature of time, deals with the devil, conflagrations, and wri...2023-04-1442 min
Three Percent PodcastThree Percent #186: Italian Science FictionIn this special episode, Chad talks with Rachel Cordasco about a new Three Percent project focusing on translators as curators. Over the course of the next month, we'll be posting a number of different types of posts—excerpts, profiles, readings, shorter podcasts, movie clips—using the five works of Italian science fiction Rachel selected as the starting point. In case it gets lost in the podcast, here are the five books in Rachel Cordasco's "Italian Science-Fiction Collection": Cancerqueen by Tommaso Landolfi (tr Raymond Rosenthal)(1971) Storie naturali (1966, as by Damiano Malabaila) and Vizio di forma (1971) se...2021-06-0153 min
Three Percent PodcastTMR 11.5: "Wuthering Heights Is Weird" [THE DREAMED PART]Chad reaches a new quarantine low at the beginning of this week's episode (highly recommend checking out the video version), but after a lot of banter and deep dives into international speculative fiction, The Invention of Morel, Lost, and more, Chad and special guest Rachel Cordasco break down the first part of the "Brontê/Wuthering Heights" section of The Dreamed Part. They get you up to speed with Penelope (The Writer's sister) who is spending her days at Our Lady of Our Lady of Our Lady . . . fixated on Emily Brontë's singular masterpiece. This week's music isn't from The D...2020-04-101h 14
The ASES PodcastASES Podcast - Episode 3 - Interview with Dr. Frank CordascoIn this episode of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Podcast, Dr. Frank Cordasco is interviewed by hosts Dr. Peter Chalmers and Dr. Rachel Frank regarding his career, his experience with the ASES, and his ASES Presidency.
2019-09-1136 min
Three Percent PodcastTMR: CoDex 1962: "I'm a Sleeping Door" (Part III)We did it! Chad and Rachel Cardasco (with an assist from Tom Flynn of Volumes) talk about the last sections of Sjón's CoDex 1962. It's been quite the season and they bring it home in old school TMR style with a lot of Twin Peaks talk, many many digressions, acknowledging motifs and ideas that may or may not actually be in the text, and having a lot of fun. This is the most sci-fi section of the novel, which makes it a lot of fun. (THE ROBOTS ARE ALWAYS GOING TO TAKE OVER.) Season 9 of the Two Month...2019-07-151h 11
OnTranslationEpisode 008: Science Fiction in TranslationIn this episode, host Mohammed Albakry interviews translator and editor Rachel S. Cordasco on translating science fiction and speculative fiction. Mohammed and Rachel discuss geopolitical shifts in speculative fiction beyond the west, and the specific challenges of translating neologisms.Thanks for listening! Follow us on X @Ontranslation12019-05-2029 min
The Skiffy and Fanty ShowSpeculative Fiction in Translation #13: Spanish Sherlock HolmesMarch brings us Indonesian sci-fi about intergalactic love, Portuguese fantasy about a family’s terrible secrets, Italian sci-fi about what it means to be human, a story from the “Lost Files” of Sherlock Holmes, and much more. We also discuss the books we’re looking forward to later in 2019 and what we’d like to see in English in the future. Remember: with new stories and books coming to their attention each week, make sure to check the SFT website for updates. Enjoy, and keep reading! A bientôt! Show notes: SFT Out in March “The Starry Sky over the Southern Isle...2019-04-1954 min
The Skiffy and Fanty ShowSpeculative Fiction in Translation #13: Spanish Sherlock HolmesMarch brings us Indonesian sci-fi about intergalactic love, Portuguese fantasy about a family’s terrible secrets, Italian sci-fi about what it means to be human, a story from the “Lost Files” of Sherlock Holmes, and much more. We also discuss the books we’re looking forward to later in 2019 and what we’d like to see in English in the future. Remember: with new stories and books coming to their attention each week, make sure to check the SFT website for updates. Enjoy, and keep reading! A bientôt! Show notes: SFT Out in March “The Starry Sky over the Southern Isle...2019-04-1954 min
SF in TranslationSpeculative Fiction in Translation #13: Spanish Sherlock HolmesMarch brings us Indonesian sci-fi about intergalactic love, Portuguese fantasy about a family’s terrible secrets, Italian sci-fi about what it means to be human, a story from the “Lost Files” of Sherlock Holmes, and much more. We also discuss the books we’re looking forward to later in 2019 and what we’d like to see in English in the future.
Remember: with new stories and books coming to their attention each week, make sure to check the SFT website for updates. Enjoy, and keep reading!
A bientôt!
Show notes:
SFT Out in Marc...2019-04-1954 min
Idaacadda Galabnimo - VOARadiant Terminus: Chapters 4-8This week, former TMR guest Rachel Cardasco returns to talk about speculative fiction in translation, various allegories for Radiant Terminus (current political climate, The Tempest, The Bible), who dreams the dreamer, the patriarchy and Maria Kwoll's feminist post-exotic texts, steampunk technology, spider dreams, and much more. This is the college course you wish you'd taken--fun and smart and funny all at once, and featuring a genuinely interesting book. With a series of detailed recaps and call backs to earlier chapters, you can enjoy this without having read a page of Volodine. And should.
As always, you can watch these episodes live on...2019-02-071h 06The Skiffy and Fanty ShowSpeculative Fiction in Translation #10: Iceland and Gothic FantasyIn this month’s episode, Rachel and Daniel make the most of a relatively-light SFT month, discussing the collections, stories, and reviews that came out in October. They also look ahead to the exciting wonderfulness that is November. The highly-acclaimed Icelandic novel, CoDex 1962, keeps coming up (probably because it’s as great as everyone says it is) and we now have new stories by Yoss and Melanie Fazi to read thanks to World Literature Today. And while Rachel and Daniel wish they could have more time to read all the things, Daniel still needs to invent that time machine Rachel keeps...2018-11-1041 minThe Skiffy and Fanty ShowSpeculative Fiction in Translation #10: Iceland and Gothic FantasyIn this month’s episode, Rachel and Daniel make the most of a relatively-light SFT month, discussing the collections, stories, and reviews that came out in October. They also look ahead to the exciting wonderfulness that is November. The highly-acclaimed Icelandic novel, CoDex 1962, keeps coming up (probably because it’s as great as everyone says it is) and we now have new stories by Yoss and Melanie Fazi to read thanks to World Literature Today. And while Rachel and Daniel wish they could have more time to read all the things, Daniel still needs to invent that time machine Rachel keeps...2018-11-1041 min
Three Percent Podcast2MR: The Physics of Sorrow (Part VII: "Global Autumn")This week, Rachel Cordasco from Speculative Fiction in Translation and the Wisconsin Historical Society Press joined Chad and Brian for a fun conversation about part VII of Georgi Gospodinov's The Physics of Sorrow. They talked about how this book invokes a variety of memories, hotel rooms, Eastern European self-deprecating humor, the saddest place on earth, and much more. It's a wide-ranging conversation that truly captures the spirit of the Two Month Review. Whether you've read the book or not, you'll come away from this informed and entertained. (And probably wishing you had read the book.) You can w...2018-04-0558 min
Three Percent Podcast2MR: The Physics of Sorrow (Part VI: "The Story Buyer")This week, translator Angela Rodel joins Chad and Brian to talk about The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov, the recent surge in Bulgarian literature in translation, point of view issues in writing, Bulgarian folk music, what makes a translation work, and much more. Then Chad and Brian banter about "The Story Buyer," the giving away of ideas for novels, and the next title to be featured on the Two Month Review! There is an unedited version of the second half of this podcast available on YouTube. that contains a longer discussion of the future of the...2018-03-291h 01
Clarkesworld MagazineThe Catalog of Virgins by Nicoletta Vallorani (audio)This episode features "The Catalog of Virgins" written by Nicoletta Vallorani and translated by Rachel S. Cordasco. Published in the November 2017 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.
The text version of this story can be found at:
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vallorani_11_17
Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld2017-11-2826 min
Clarkesworld MagazineThe Catalog of Virgins by Nicoletta Vallorani (audio)This episode features "The Catalog of Virgins" written by Nicoletta Vallorani and translated by Rachel S. Cordasco. Published in the November 2017 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.
The text version of this story can be found at:
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vallorani_11_17
Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/join/clarkesworld?2017-11-2826 min
Three Percent Podcast2MR: "The Place Where the Sea Ends So the Forest Can Begin: Part 3" (The Invented Part, Pages 208-230)This week, Speculative Fiction in Translation founder and Best Translated Book Award judge Rachel Cordasco joins Chad and Brian to talk about the nature of time, deals with the devil, conflagrations, and writerly desires, or, in other words, the third part of "The Place Where the Sea Ends So the Forest Can Begin" in Rodrigo Fresán's The Invented Part. A very elegant section of the book following the wild, giant green cow bit that came before, the three hosts enthusiastically break down some of the plot clues included in this section, and what makes this book so damn g...2017-06-2240 min
Get BookedAlso, Some CamelsAmanda and Jenn recommend books about space, modern Westerns, and more on this week’s Get Booked.This episode is sponsored by Burning Glass by Kathryn Purdie and A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.Books Discussed!Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse TysonAn Astronaut’s Guid...2016-03-031h 04