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Transfiction: Research into the realities of translation fiction
Edited by Klaus Kaindl and Karlheinz Spitzl
[Benjamins Translation Library 110] 2014
► pp. 345–362

Future imperfect

Translation and translators in science-fiction novels

Published online: 28 January 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.110.24woz
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