2025 eligibility

I do not expect anyone to nominate me for anything, but I am, in theory, eligible to be nominated for things like “best fan writer” and “best related work”. here is what appeared in 2025:

published elsewhere

27 January 2025: my essay “The Celts Meet Celtic Fantasy,” published at Strange Horizons
- if you were going to nominate anything I published last year for anything, I would appreciate it being this, a long-form (but still all too short!) critique of fantasy’s extractive use of Celtic-language cultures as aesthetic source material and a brief look at how two Celtic-language writers of fantasy (Scottish Gaelic writer Fionnlagh MacLeòid and Welsh writer Ifan Morgan Jones) have responded to this. while my focus is on Celtic-language communities, I hope that this speaks to broader questions about the genre’s use of colonized and otherwise marginalized cultures as its building blocks and that the questions I pose at the end will resonate with readers from other contexts.
7 May 2025: my review of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas at the Ancillary Review of Books
11 July 2025: my short review of G. Willow Wilson’s The Bird King, focused on its use of “Celtic” material, at Carantes
9 October 2025: my review of Marietta S. Shaginyan’s Yankees in Petrograd (tr. Jill Roese) at ARB
29 October 2025: the first installment of my column, Misplaced in Translation, at ARB, looking at Elia Barceló’s Natural Consequences (tr. Andrea Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán)
- this is the piece I’m second-proudest of from last year, insofar as it encompasses both a review of a book that fascinates me and a commentary on translation in the SFF publishing and reading scene more broadly.

reference pages published on this site

Afrophone literatures in translation, a list of books translated from African languages into English that are currently in print
welcome to the denied-language bookstore, a list of books translated from denied/marginalized languages into English that are currently in print

reviews published on this site

I review every book I read (though some of those reviews go elsewhere). here, in the order they were posted, are all the reviews I posted on this site last year; asterisked reviews are books I particularly think other people should read, †ed reviews are in Gaelic, and ‡ed reviews are reviews I’m particularly pleased with:

*†Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring
*‡Cameron Reed, The Fortunate Fall
*Mathias Storch (tr. Inès Jorgensen and Jean-Michel Huctin): Le rêve d’un Groenlandais
- note that while I reviewed this, the first Greenlandic novel, in its French translation, it is also available in English, as Singnagtugag: A Greenlanders [sic] Dream (tr. Torben Hutchings)
*‡Harry Josephine Giles, Deep Wheel Orcadia
Fflur Dafydd, Y Llyfrgell
*†Mikel Ruiz (tr. Mikel Ruiz and Sean S. Sell), Chayemal nich’nabiletik / Los hijos errantes / The Errant Children
†Ruperake Petaia, Blue Rain
- while this review is in Gaelic, there are several poems quoted in full in it.
†Tormod Calum Dòmhnallach, Creach Mhór nam Fiadh
*‡Mustafá El Kattab, Fiesta del divorcio
*‡C.J. Cherryh, Gate of Ivrel
Inui Rokuro (tr. Matt Treyvaud), Automatic Eve
*‡Kuchenga Shenjé, The Library Thief
Llŷr Titus, Gwalia
*Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas
*†‡Eilidh Watt, Gun Fhois: Sgeulachdan mun Dà Shealladh
*†Carol Labarre, L’or des mélèzes
‡Álvaro Enrigue, Tu sueño imperios han sido
- this is also available in English translation, as You Dreamed of Empires (tr. Natasha Wimmer), but unfortunately I didn’t think it was very good and probably would not recommend it.
*Neil Christopher (ed.), Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories
*‡Élisabeth Vonarburg, Les voyageurs malgré eux
- also available in English translation as Reluctant Voyagers (tr. Jane Brierley)
*‡Francis Ebejer, In the Eye of the Sun
†Jordan A. Werner, The Witch and the Ostrich
Sadeq Hedayat (tr. Sassan Tabatabai), Blind Owl
*J. Alexander Cohen, Talio’s Codex
Fadi Zaghmout (tr. Sawad Hussain), Heaven on Earth
†Barra Ó Caochlaigh, An Tost agus Sgéalta Eile
*Pergentino José (tr. Pergentino José and Thomas Bunstead), Red Ants
*Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower
Siân Llywelyn, Darogan
*‡Charles R. Saunders, Imaro
*‡Thomas Burnett Swann, Day of the Minotaur
*C.J. Cherryh, Well of Shiuan
*†Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time
Sean Ashcroft, Cocky
†‡Elizabeth Sutherland, The Seer of Kintail
‡Larry Niven, Ringworld
J.A. Mortimore and Penelope Hill, The Draper’s Reel
Agustina Bazterrica, Cadáver exquisito
- also available in English translation as Tender Is the Flesh (tr. Sarah Moses)
*†Kim Sung-il (tr. Anton Hur), Blood of the Old Kings
*†Kim Sung-il (tr. Anton Hur), Blood for the Undying Throne
*Kristin Osani, The Extravaganza Eternia
*Jelena Dunato, Ghost Apparent
*‡Pauli Kidd, Mus of Kerbridge
Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
‡José Luis Zárate, La ruta del hielo y la sal
- also available in English translation as The Route of Ice and Salt (tr. David Bowles)

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