SFSignal polled a number of leading, non-English-language science fiction writers, asking them what Anglo readers were missing out on; the answers are tantalizing and fascinating. Here's Hebrew writer Lavie Tidhar:

But to answer the question properly – what are we missing out on – my own regret is that I don't get to read French steampunk!

Brett from the independent sf publisher ChiZine sez,

While many other publishers, big and small, have been firing people and putting acquisition freezes on their lists, we at ChiZine Publications have been trying to push our business to the wall and make a real go of it.

Issue 5 of Flurb, Rudy Rucker's wonderful, bizarre science fiction ezine, is out. Here's Rudy's description: "This issue features a Beat SF story of Rudy Rucker's in the form of letters from William Burroughs in Tangiers, excerpts of John Shirley's lost cyberpunk novel Black Glass, Terry Bisson's hilarious anti-mundane story 'Captain Ordinary,' a Lovecraftian novella by Lavie Tidhar, and some amazing pieces by new SF writers." — Read the rest