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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 2532350" data-attributes="member: 3477">That's not that easy in this case. Being popular in the US definitely helps with being translated in the first place. That doesn't help selling the books, though. People must have some incentive to buy them <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. I think it's movies like Star Wars that slowly paved the path to success. I'm sure there are quite a lot of people who made the SF->Space Opera->Science Fantasy->Fantasy transition.Your book/movie analogy doesn't work exactly like that in my home country. As books have fixed prices (even on amazon they have the same <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />), publishers take more risks with completely unknown foreign authors. And as state TV is paid by compulsory fees, they also translate Korean films that potentially 5 people watch around Tuesday midnight.</blockquote>