Essay: What Does SFT Criticism Look Like? (opens in new tab)

In my quest to find the origins of interest in SF in translation in the Anglophone world, I started reading SF criticism from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Eventually, I found myself reading James Blish’s More Issues at Hand: Critical Studies in Contemporary Science Fiction (1970), which then directed me to Damon Knight (translator, by the way, of 21 SF stories and 1 novel from the French) and his 1956 collection of literary criticism, In Search of Wonder. These texts helped coalesce some ideas ab...