About

Bo Lan

Bo Lan is a bilingual translator working between Chinese and English and is currently based in Tokyo. She specialises in science fiction and has translated three full-length sci-fi novels due 2025, with a particular interest in linguistic experimentation, speculative ethics, and post-human futures. Formerly a publishing editor and once a bartender, she brings a translator’s instinct for detail, rhythm, and voice.

Works by Bo Lan

As She Begins to Write the Future

Feminist ideals are tied to science fiction because the equality we seek is an imagination of the future. How have female sci-fi writers from Mary Shelley to Kim Choyeop broken the boundaries and brought forth new ideas despite a lack of audience in the genre?

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