SF & Fantasy in Translation

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Roadside Picnic

by Arkady Strugatsky

3,112 members

114 reviews

4

6 Members: Euryale, melonbrawl, Dilara86, electrice, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Three-Body Problem

by Cixin Liu

7,048 members

348 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Euryale, melonbrawl, Dilara86, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Unit

by Ninni Holmqvist

992 members

105 reviews

3.8

5 Members: Euryale, Dilara86, electrice, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Blindness (Harvest Book)

by José Saramago

12,292 members

372 reviews

4.1

4 Members: electrice, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Lord of All Things

by Andreas Eschbach

231 members

10 reviews

4.1

4 Members: whitewavedarling, geitebukkeskjegg, electrice, Her_Royal_Orangeness

6

We: A Novel

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

7,869 members

205 reviews

3.9

4 Members: Euryale, Dilara86, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ManWithAnAgenda

7

The Carpet Makers

by Andreas Eschbach

829 members

42 reviews

4.1

3 Members: whitewavedarling, Dilara86, Her_Royal_Orangeness

8

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,031 members

354 reviews

4.2

3 Members: Euryale, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ahef1963

9

Solaris

by Stanisław Lem

6,079 members

139 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hailelib, Dilara86, Her_Royal_Orangeness

10

Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami

17,007 members

450 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Euryale, electrice, Her_Royal_Orangeness

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Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Jules Verne

13,485 members

210 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: electrice, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

20,000 Leagues under the Sea

by Jules Verne

16,545 members

234 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: electrice, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Troll: A Love Story

by Johanna Sinisalo

956 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aulsmith, ahef1963

14

Night Watch

by Sergei Lukyanenko

4,484 members

137 reviews

3.9

3 Members: geitebukkeskjegg, Her_Royal_Orangeness, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Day Watch

by Sergei Lukyanenko

2,513 members

47 reviews

4

2 Members: KimarieBee, geitebukkeskjegg

16

Twilight Watch

by Sergei Lukyanenko

2,118 members

29 reviews

4.1

2 Members: KimarieBee, geitebukkeskjegg

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Cold Skin

by Albert Sánchez Piñol

898 members

37 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: melonbrawl, bluepiano

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The Cardinal's Blades

by Pierre Pevel

254 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: electrice, Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer (2010)

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The Swarm

by Frank Schätzing

2,631 members

85 reviews

3.8

2 Members: geitebukkeskjegg, Her_Royal_Orangeness

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The Slynx

by Tatyana Tolstaya

777 members

26 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Dilara86, Her_Royal_Orangeness

21

Metro 2033

by Dmitry Glukhovsky

1,846 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: electrice, Her_Royal_Orangeness

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Paprika

by Yasutaka Tsutsui

272 members

12 reviews

3.1

2 Members: Euryale, bluepiano
Explanations: bluepiano: I'm not 100% sure about recommending this by adding it to a list as I don't remember it well. But I did like it at the time, and the author is well-known as a science-fiction writer in his own country.

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Zig Zag

by Jose Carlos Somoza

309 members

13 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: Dilara86, Her_Royal_Orangeness

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Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

by Angélica Gorodischer

568 members

18 reviews

3.9

2 Members: Euryale, Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: translated by Ursula K. LeGuin

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The Wall

by Marlen Haushofer

1,135 members

68 reviews

4.2

2 Members: electrice, Her_Royal_Orangeness

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Kallocain

by Karin Boye

718 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

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Ashes, Ashes

by René Barjavel

462 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

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Aniara

by Harry Martinson

419 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: bartekopp

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Japan Sinks: A Novel

by Sakyo Komatsu

107 members

6 reviews

3.2

Member: geitebukkeskjegg

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En levande själ : roman

by P. C. Jersild

97 members

2 reviews

4

Member: bluepiano

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The Magic Ring

by Friedrich de LaMotte Fouqué

69 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: inge87

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Other Worlds, Other Seas: Science-Fiction Stories from Socialist Countries

by Darko Suvin

53 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: hipdeep

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Utopia

by Ahmed Khaled Towfik

79 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: electrice, Her_Royal_Orangeness

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Battle Royale

by Koushun Takami

3,931 members

106 reviews

4.1

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: before The Hunger Games there was...Battle Royale

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Malevil

by Robert Merle

555 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: Dilara86

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Spell of Desire, Vol. 1

by Tomu Ohmi

80 members

½ 3.5

Member: inge87

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Virus: The Day of Resurrection

by Sakyo Komatsu

49 members

1 review

4

Member: geitebukkeskjegg

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Escape hatch & The long road ahead: two novellas

by Vladimir Makanin

23 members

3.2

Member: bluepiano

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Seeing

by José Saramago

2,640 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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The Ten Thousand Things

by Maria Dermoût

490 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: inge87

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The Other Side of the Mountain

by Michel Bernanos

86 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: bluepiano

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Blood of Elves

by Andrzej Sapkowski

3,665 members

70 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: David Gemmell Legend Award (2009)

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The Last World

by Christoph Ransmayr

635 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: inge87

44

Ice Trilogy

by Vladimir Sorokin

312 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: bluepiano

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The Man with the Compound Eyes

by Wu Ming-Yi

153 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Euryale

46

Indigo

by Clemens J. Setz

89 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: bluepiano

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

1,503 members

76 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

Memory of Water

by Emmi Itäranta

572 members

44 reviews

3.8

Member: Euryale

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The Radiant Future

by Aleksandr Zinovyev

79 members

½ 3.6

Member: Dilara86

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172 Hours on the Moon

by Johan Harstad

472 members

43 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: geitebukkeskjegg

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Tales from the Cafe

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

408 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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In the Mother's Land

by Élisabeth Vonarburg

181 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: Dilara86

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The Cusanus Game

by Wolfgang Jeschke

103 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

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The Eye of Purgatory

by Jacques Spitz

26 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: bluepiano

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The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

11,281 members

186 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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Harmony

by Project Itoh

198 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: Euryale

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The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground

by Ludvig Holberg

141 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: geitebukkeskjegg

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Datura

by Leena Krohn

97 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness

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Die gläserne Kugel. Utopischer Roman.

by Marianne Gruber

7 members

Member: bluepiano

60

Supernova Era

by Cixin Liu

339 members

18 reviews

3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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RUR & War with the Newts

by Karel Čapek

112 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: Dilara86

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Edge

by Koji Suzuki

88 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (2012)

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Twilight Country

by Knut Faldbakken

69 members

½ 3.5

Member: geitebukkeskjegg

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Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City (Weatherhead Books on Asia)

by Dung Kai-cheung (董啟章)

51 members

½ 3.3

Member: bluepiano
Explanations: bluepiano: This didn't feel like sci-fi to me but it won The Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award last year.

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