In our article we try to analyze the peculiarities of science fiction translation on example of R. L. Stevenson’s story “The Bottle imp" translation, made by O. Terekh. Science fiction text does not only repeat the characteristics of literary text, but also has a number of its own features: the large number of occasional vocabulary, some special realities and names. We have identified translation transformations used by the translator, to convey as close as possible the structure and vocabulary of the original text, while preserving the adequacy and comprehensibility.