And Now Read This…

If you missed it before in the mass of information we call the internet, make sure to read Yoshio Kobayashi’s essay on the new generation of Japanese SF writers. 

I myself wish American SF publishers would give us more international writers to read.  I’m sure it’s probably based on statistics that Americans don’t like to read writers that have been translated from other cultures into English, or some such reason that is probably true and only serves to indicate our insularity at this moment in history as a culture, but I would think there has to be a base of readers that would be interested in what I’m thinking of as Global SF rather than the English language dominated genre it is at the moment.  Maybe someday, the majority of us will care what the rest of the world is having a conversation about, and then a new market will open up for this sort of book here.


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