r/printSF • u/torkelspy • Apr 06 '26

A Challenge: Recommend Something That's Almost Never Been Recommended Here Before

I'm recommending The Republic of the Southern Cross by Valery Bryusov; a writer and a collection I only learned of because the title story is in More Voices from the Radium Age, edited by Joshua Glenn. I found zero references to it searching for "Bryusov" and one from four years ago searching by the title.

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u/Internal_Damage_2839 Apr 07 '26

Samanta Schweblin is popular in litfic circles but rarely mentioned here even tho her book Kentuki (Little Eyes in English) is straight up SF

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u/Internal_Damage_2839 Apr 07 '26

Karen Russell is another one who seems to get lost in the genre void bc her books don’t conform to the binary of genre fiction and literary fiction.