“Translation is creative. The process of taking a text from a language to another is a process of undoing and remaking…Translations are not final destinations. Something will come after them. As a mode of travel, translation is also not straightforward. In various science fiction narratives, characters regularly zip between spaceships and galaxies, their atoms and sinews recombining perfectly between home and faraway. Literal translation imagines a seamless crossing over—this word matching that word. But sometimes, travellers, like translations, reach the other side having been turned inside out, taken apart, or fused with insect DNA…some texts outwardly appear whole and undamaged, but how can we be sure that no mutation or glitch has taken place?”—On Literary Translation