Non-English (but translated)

Review: <em>Roadside Picnic</em> by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Roadside Picnic is short, bleak, and fantastic. It has a typical Russian life-is-a-meaningless-struggle-against-absurdity vibe, but there’s enough going on to…

7 years ago

Review: <em>Memoirs Found in a Bathtub</em> by Stanislaw Lem

If, before sitting down to write 1984, George Orwell had decided to candy-flip (ingest LSD and ecstasy simultaneously), he might…

10 years ago

Review: <em>His Master’s Voice</em> by Stanislaw Lem

His Master’s Voice is a smarter book than I am a reviewer, so my vantage point is of a slow…

10 years ago

Review: <em>Cosmicomics</em> by Italo Calvino

Cosmicomics is a wild imagination's love letter to science. It's a series of tales told by a creature named Qfwfq,…

10 years ago

23 Best Non-English Science Fiction Books

For readers a little tired of familiar stories, non-English science fiction is one of their best sources for new perspectives,…

11 years ago