So, my translation of Roesin by Wu Guan won the short form Rosetta Award for SFF translation! I was so honored to win this award because this was my first introduction to translating SFF from Chinese, and it was also a very challenging piece to translate. The Rosetta Awards are Read more…
The Tor anthology of Chinese women and nonbinary science fiction and fantasy, The Way Spring Arrives, is out now! I have a piece of translation in it, The Woman Carrying a Corpse, by Chi Hui! This was a very mythological piece, with great archetypal resonance and I had a good Read more…
So the amazing, humble and talented Anthony Tao was the guest on Rattlecast #83. The man was working at Beijing Bookworm (a fabulous bilingual bookshop in Sanlitun) before it got shut down and helping to run the legendary literary festival there. Now, he’s still in Beijing and has just taken Read more…
Man, I am having SO MUCH FUN reading/interpreting Ti Sha’s “Final Test”, a short story first posted on a Wechat channel in China which I’m translating for FutureSF Magazine’s upcoming issue! The story is a brilliant take on a Turing test – except that the Turing test is set presumably Read more…
Dream Foundry’s Flights of Foundry Con 2020 was really when I found my people – it was my first ever SFF (Science Fiction and Fantasy) Convention and I attended as a panelist. It was a blast! I think I’m actually rather fortunate to have been initiated into cons through the Read more…
So I went live on 93.8FM today with Eugene on the Scene to talk about my novel! I even read an excerpt, when Sofia creates the new universe in the Utopia Machine. You can check it out and listen to the interview here. Let me know what you think!
I received news from my publisher, Epigram, today that Sofia and The Utopia Machine has received over a hundred pre-orders! I am pleasantly surprised and also gratified that so many people are interested enough in the book that they have already ordered it. You can, too, if you head over Read more…