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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Having been asked if we accept translations - we do! We do need confirmation from the original author that they approve of the translation and publication (if accepted).

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A very illuminating thread re: writing media tie-in novels, and the earning pros/cons to consider + a few extra factors!

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Something exciting arrived today! 🎉 #SFinTranslation @uniwalespress.bsky.social

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The Sea's Decree" explores new beginnings, curses, and the terrible annual Halloween sacrifice that must happen to prevent the Mediterranean Sea from reclaiming Barceloneta. This was the second speculative fiction translation I ever completed, so I am SUPER psyched to see it published.

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

At long last, my translation of the novelette "The Sea's Decree" by Spanish writer Armando Boix has been published in Adventures BookZine #20!!! (Fittingly, this is also my 20th published speculative translation!!! 🎉 ) shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params... #SFinTranslation #horror #halloween

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Adventures, #20

Another multi-genre issue, carefully curated and designed to ignite your summer reading. Featuring icons like Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, this volume delivers the perfect blend of nostalgia...

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Daniel Cottam @litbystraylight.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ha I just found this article, still warm from the oven, where @molowrites.bsky.social said it all better than me: www.sfintranslation.com?p=16513

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Daniel Cottam @litbystraylight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Some of the records include the translators in the notes, because volunteers are awesome. For titles I touch, I am submitting as I go. But if these were data fields instead, functionality gains for research would be massive. E.g. click on a translator and see all their credits.

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Daniel Cottam @litbystraylight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I've been working to compile a bibliography of cyberpunk prose translated into English. Clumsily, but I'm learning. ISFDB has been a tremendous resource for this, because of course it has. I do wish the record structure supported translator credits as data. #SFinTranslation

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You knowe when the heroine doth face the dragon wyth a looke of elegant courage -- the sworde, raised -- eyes steel -- so you almost pity the dragon? Wel, everye daye you fynde some joye or peace or tyme to create or room to helpe somebodye, or even just pull thrugh, that ys you. You wynne the daye.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 06/08/2026

This is Bruce. He prefers his sticks with a little pizazz. 13/10 (IG: brucewaynethegoldenboy)

a golden retriever trots along a cement pathway outside with a city skyline in the distance. his front left paw is suspended in the air as he has been caught mid-step. he looks over at the camera with a little grin. he's holding a long leafy branch in his mouth. can't believe his luck at finding this razzle dazzle stick.

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

To accompany my translation of "A Falling Boeing 767, Spinning Slowly" by Roberto Bayeto, I also did an interview about my translation process + some other fun tidbits!

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My translation of "A Falling Beoing 767, Spinning Slowly", a novelette by Roberto Bayeto🇺🇾, is out in Chatterbox! Literary! Read it here: www.chatterboxlit.com/read/a-falli... #SFinTranslation

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A Falling Boeing 767, Spinning Slowly — Chatterbox Literary

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I shall!!! Hoping to have a draft done by the end of the month! 👀 Also thinking about doing a review of looking for translations in WorldCat...

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The Spanish-language version of this story was published in the Uruguayan magazine Revista Mordedor in 2020, and was accompanied by some delightful illustrations. If you can read Spanish (or even if you just want to see the illustrations), the issue is free here: revistamordedor.com/product/mord...

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Mordedor 2 - Revista Mordedor

Mordedor es una revista digital gratuita, pero el contenido está protegido por derechos de autor. No distribuyas ni reproduzcas textos sin el consentimiento previo del autor. Ayúdanos a crecer compart...

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

COMING SOON! My translation of the novelette "A Falling Boeing 767, Spinning Slowly" by Roberto Bayeto 🇺🇾 will appear in Chatterbox! Literary later this month!!! It took 14 submissions over 1.25 years to find a home for Roberto's story. (We received 1 personal rejection along the way.)

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

(ran out of character space, but meant to add 🇪🇸 after both Santiago & Daniel's names above!)

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"Rest In Peace, Master Pruner" by @danbamo.bsky.social in The Orange & Bee (May 2026) The mayor of Collodi tries to save his village from the compulsive lies turning it into a forest after the Master Pruner's death. Fantasy ~1,960 words #SFinTranslation theorangebee.substack.com/p/rest-in-pe...

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Rest in peace, Master Pruner

Issue nine: fiction by Daniel Badosa Moriyama, translated by Monica Louzon

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"Letters from a Dead Girl" by @santiagoeximeno.bsky.social in Dreams & Nightmares Magazine #133 (May 2026) What would you do if letters from a dead girl suddenly showed up in your mailbox? Horror, Microfiction ~410 words #SFinTranslation dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/05/dn-1...

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DN 133 Contents

DN 133 Contents Denny E. Marshall , The Slow Touch, cover E.W.H. Thornton , Small Broken Things Santia...

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"Knight in Shining Armor" by Erick J. Mota 🇨🇺 in Solarmarx anthology (Future Fiction; Apr. 2026) Confined to a solar-powered tobacco plantation, Maya longs to learn about the world... and her mother. Science Fiction, Queer ~5,710 words #SFinTranslation www.futurefiction.org/solarmarx-en...

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"The Abyss in the Depths of Her Eyes" by Isis Aquino 🇩🇴 in @foofarawpress.bsky.social (Mar. 2026) One summer night before college, Lenny picks up a distress call from a spaceship that has fallen through a blue hole... foofaraw.press/the-abyss-in... Science Fiction ~2,410 words #SFinTranslation

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🔭 The abyss in the depths of her eyes

by Isis Aquino and translated by Monica Louzon

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"Damnatio Memoriae" by I. A. Galdames 🇨🇱 in @realneondystopia.bsky.social (Mar. 2026) If you lived in a surveilled future and had plenty of pills to help you regulate your present, would you face the past? www.neondystopia.com?p=100043460 Science Fiction, Dystopia ~5,140 words #SFinTranslation

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Damnatio Memoriae – Neon Dystopia

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

To celebrate being halfway through 2026, here's a thread of me shouting about the 6 speculative translations I've had published this year (with 2 more on the way!) from from authors in Chile, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Spain, and Uruguay! #SFinTranslation #scifi #fantasy #horror #specfic #ICYMI

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

CORVID UPDATE: Sunday... after years of feeding them... MY CROWS BLESSED ME WITH MY FIRST GIFT!!! It was... a little pebble! Today... MY CROWS BLESSED ME WITH MY SECOND GIFT! It was... a big old hunk of hard, sandy dirt with some bits of moss and algae!!! 🤣

a hard clump of brown sandy dirt with some bits of green moss and green-grey algae on it

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Santiago Eximeno @santiagoeximeno.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Mi microrrelato "Dead letters from a dead girl", traducido por @molowrites.bsky.social, ha sido publicado en el número #133 de la revista Dreams and Nightmares dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/05/dn-1...

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DN 133 Contents

DN 133 Contents Denny E. Marshall , The Slow Touch, cover E.W.H. Thornton , Small Broken Things Santia...

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Word of mouth really does sell books. My friend gets me to read all kinds of things I have never felt like picking up because she's feral about them and I need to know why. I am a clown.

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is my first published collaboration with Daniel! It took 8 tries and just over 10 months to find a home for this translation.

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

PUBLICATION NEWS: My translation of Spanish author Daniel Badosa Moriyama's story "Rest in peace, Master Pruner" is out now in The Orange & Bee #9! Wondering what happened after Pinocchio grew up? This story is for you! theorangebee.substack.com/p/rest-in-pe... #fantasy #SFinTranslation

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Rest in peace, Master Pruner

Issue nine: fiction by Daniel Badosa Moriyama, translated by Monica Louzon

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

What makes Small Planet the superb magazine it is? Every contributor volunteers their time and expertise for the love of #SFinTranslation: www.sfintranslation.com?p=16928

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Issue #1: Small Planet: The SFT Magazine – Speculative Fiction in Translation

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Mandalorian & Grogu was a lot of fun! I *very* much appreciated that the trailers did not give away the plot (AKA, they intentionally obfuscated it). The film was a solid installment to the Mando series, and I enjoyed this new adventure (+ the easter eggs)!

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

...an essay on ISFDB by @molowrites.bsky.social, an interview with @sueburke.bsky.social by @cristinajurado.bsky.social, and more!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

i printed lots of zines today i ran out of toner i still want to print more zines i cannot :(

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Redwall Feasts Bot @redwallfeasts.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Fresh-baked breads vied with vegetable salads, cheeses, tarts, and trifles, plus a huge cauldron of the moles' favorite deeper'n'ever turnip'n'tater'n'beetroot pie. There were hot herbal teas, cordials of all types, and a barrel of special dandelion ale on tap for the Elders.

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Graham A. Yeates @grahamyeates.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I'm not claiming to be a hero, but with every Cadbury MiniEgg I eat, that's a dog not getting chocolate poisoning. I've saved so many dogs.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

for no particular reason here are some nostalgic fantasy books from my childhood that i have read to my kids! the enchanted forest chronicles the chrestomanci books the dark is rising series the hobbit gregor the overlander percy jackson the black cauldron inkheart island of the aunts

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

thinking about the medieval cat door in Exeter cathedral again

an old wooden cathedral door with a hole in the bottom through which a cat pokes its head

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Cardboard Time @cardboardtime.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

3 years ago today I took a long nap and woke up with something I struggled with and caused me anguish for 41 years gone from my life. Gender affirming care is life saving and game changing. I've experienced it first hand. And that's why we continue to fight to not see it stripped away for others.

Me in a hospital bed post surgery in 2023.

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

3) Imaginarias: Antología de mujeres en mundos peligrosos is a Spanish-language anthology from 2019 of speculative fiction by female Chilean authors published by Triada Ediciones. This anthology is full of speculative gems from the Cono Sur - 10/10 recommend! www.buscalibre.us/libro-imagin...

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Libro Imaginarias. Antología de mujeres en mundos peligrosos De Varias Autoras - Buscalibre Estados Unidos

Libro Imaginarias. Antología de mujeres en mundos peligrosos De Varias Autoras - Buscalibre Estados Unidos - ver opiniones y comentarios. Compra y venta de libros importados, novedades y bestsellers e...

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

2) Due to the nature of classified info, The CIA Book Club by Charlie English is far less about the CIA and WAY more about how important indie publishing was to the Polish resistance during the Cold War. Another 10/10 recommend. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature

The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

(The timing of everything going to hell in a handbasket underscores the need to read more Iranian speculative fiction)

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Iran +100 from @commapress.bsky.social features Persian #SFinTranslation. There's magical realism, horror, fantasy, hard sci-fi, and heartbreak. 10/10 recommend. I was so excited for this anthology that I accidentally preordered 2 copies & gave the 2nd to a pal 😅 (commapress.co.uk/books/iran100)

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Iran+100 - Stories from a Century After the Coup | Comma Press

£10.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Alireza Abiz, Caroline Croskery, Farzaneh Doosti , Ebrahim Farokh, Behzad Ghadimi and others

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A few books I've read recently & loved: 1) Iran +100 2) The CIA Book Club 3) Imaginarias: Antología de mujeres en mundos peligrosos Links + TL;DRs 👇

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Maybe with age comes increased appreciation for the little things in life, like afternoon naps? I'm quite partial to afternoon floor naps, myself.

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Monica Louzon @molowrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I have a new essay out! In this one, I highlight why ISFDB's indexing of translations frustrates me, and straightforward fix the admins could implement that would eliminate this problem.

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