authors featured in the Big Sky Library
See also separate Asia-specific, general speculative fiction and non-fiction anthology listings, plus
Magazines & Webzines, Academic Journals & Fanzines, Non-fiction and Reviews.
Forthcoming new publications and translations...
Recent activity... since 1 September 2021
Bibliographies added: [ See earlier additions... ]
September 2021
Ryka Aoki | Ven Begamudré | Lawrence Block | Rivka Galchen | Hwang Jungeun | Daphne Lee | Kai-Fu Lee |
Pramoedya Ananta Toer | Simon Winchester
October 2021
Emma Mieko Candon | Naomi Ishiguro | Jing Jiang | Matsuda Aoko | S. J. Sindu | Kazuaki Takano
Asia-specific anthologies added: [ See earlier additions... ]
September 2021
Be Me: LGBTQIA+ Stories of Belonging | The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2 |
Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion | Remang: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales | Singa-Pura-Pura
October 2021
The Dreaming God | Inverted Kingdom | Night Voices, Night Journeys | Straight to Darkness |
Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction | This Is How You Walk on the Moon
General anthologies added: [ See earlier additions... ]
September 2021
In This Desert, There Were Seeds | Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology
October 2021
Non-fiction added: [ See earlier additions... ]
September 2021
Alternative Dystopia: Science, Power and Fundamentalism in Rimi B. Chatterjee's Signal Red
October 2021
Found in Translation: "New People" in Twentieth-Century Chinese Science Fiction
Reviews added: [ See a complete list of reviews... ]
The Great and Not-So-Secret Short Fiction Project... [ See earlier additions... ]
...to index all magazines, webzines, fanzines and academic journals that feature genre fiction (plus essays and interviews) either from Asian writers or others with interests in Asian speculative fiction.
September 2021
Added issue #3 of the Indian magazine State of Matter that features poetry.
Added issue #143 of the US fanzine Lofgeornost that features an essay.
Added issue #6 of the US fanzine Portable Storage that features essays.
October 2021
Added issue #1 of the Bulgarian magazine Orphia that features fiction, essays and an interview.
Added 6 issues of the Ukrainian fanzine Chernobylization that feature essays and reviews.
Current reading / audiobooks...
Elizabeth Tan, Jon Gresham, eds.
In This Desert, There Were Seeds
2019
Anthology
Ethos Books / Margaret River Press
ISBN 978-0-6484850-9-4
Digital
The Thirty Names of Night
2020
Novel
Atria Books
ISBN 978-1-9821-2149-5
Hardcover, 291 pages
The Big Sky Library is being developed on an ongoing basis as a bibliographic resource for all speculative fiction available in English from and about Asia and the Asian diaspora.
Based in Liverpool, England, the library currently holds well over 1,500 titles. While it functions as a private collection, it is accessible for research purposes and enquiries are always welcome.
Tarun K. Saint, ed.
New Horizons: The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction
2021
Anthology
Gollancz
ISBN 978-1-952086-06-9
B-format paperback, xli+375 pages
Various translators
The Memory Police
1994
Novel
Pantheon Books
ISBN 978-1-101-87060-0
Hardcover, 274 pages
Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder
In the Watchful City
2021
Short fiction chapbook
Tordotcom
ISBN 978-1-250-79298-3
Paperback, 192 pages
The Veiled Throne
'The Dandelion Dynasty' series #3
2 November 2021
Novel
Saga Press
ISBN 978-1-4814-2433-2
Hardcover, 1,008 pages
$29.99
The Mysterious Killer of Cats
30 October 2021
Short fiction chapbook
Black Hare Press
No ISBN
Digital
$0.99
Out of This World: Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to
the New Millennium
1 December 2021
Non-fiction
University of Illinois Press
ISBN 978-0-252-04398-7
Hardcover, 328 pages
$60.00
Waste Tide
2013
Novel
W. F. Howes Audio
ISBN 9781-7895-4889-1
Audiobook
Translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu
Narrated by Ewan Chung
The Righteous
'The Beautiful' series, #3
7 December 2021
Novel
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
ISBN 978-1-9848-1261-2
Hardcover, 456 pages
$19.99
The Guild’s Demands
'Adventures on Brad' series, #7
26 December 2021
Novel
Starlit Publishing
No ISBN
Digital
$3.99
Girl Giant and the Jade War
'Girl Giant' series, #2
7 December 2021
Novel
Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 978-1-250-24043-9
Hardcover, 320 pages
$17.99
Happy Stories, Mostly
2 December 2021
Collection
Tilted Axis Press
ISBN 978-1-9112-8461-1
B-format paperback
Unknown cover price
Translated from the Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao
Blue Skinned Gods
2 November 2021
Novel
Soho Press
ISBN 978-1-64129-242-9
Hardcover, 336 pages
$26.00
Xueting Christine Ni
Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction
9 November 2021
Anthology
Solaris
ISBN 978-1-78108-852-4
Trade paperback, 448 pages
$14.99
Girls of Fate and Fury
'Girls of Paper and Fire' series, #3
23 November 2021
Novel
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 978-1-5293-4264-2
Hardcover, 448 pages
£16.99
