Archive for April, 2008
Lost in Translation
A week or two ago, SCI FI Wire published my interview with Adam-Troy Castro, which focused on his novel Emissaries From the Dead. Some time later, Adam-Troy discovered that someone had translated the interview (almost certainly using a web translator), then translated it back into English. The results are rather amusing.
I especially like the references to "Ellery Female Monarch" (rather than Ellery Queen) and the way "Fidel" was somehow inserted into the text, as if you can’t say "Castro" without "Fidel." I also rather enjoyed my byline in translation: "St. John Chief Joseph John Adams." A bonus John, plus sainthood and chiefdom!
Seeds of Change available for Pre-order
Seeds of Change is now available for pre-order over on Amazon.com. It’s not out for quite a while yet–it’s not due to be published until August–so there’s certainly no rush to order a copy, but pre-orders do make publishers happy.
As a result of this momentous occasion, I’ve decided to add my regular blog’s feed to my Amazon Connect feed, so those of you browsing over on Amazon will get the full JJA treatment, not just the pared-down Wastelands feed.
And just so everyone on Amazon doesn’t rate this post as not interesting, here’s the table of contents for Seeds of Change:
- Introduction by John Joseph Adams
- N-Words by Ted Kosmatka
- The Future by Degrees by Jay Lake
- Drinking Problem by K. D. Wentworth
- Endosymbiont by Blake Charlton
- A Dance Called Armageddon by Ken MacLeod
- Arties Aren’t Stupid by Jeremiah Tolbert
- Faceless in Gethsemane by Mark Budz
- Spider the Artist by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
- Resistance by Tobias S. Buckell
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Two Takes on Wastelands
SF Site has an enthusiastic review of Wastelands: "Wastelands is a fine anthology: an educational introduction to the subgenre and a well-chosen jog of the memory for the more experienced connoisseur of calamity. And much as you might not expect Armageddon to have a sequel, I live in hope that there might yet be a Wastelands 2."
Also reviewing Wastelands is Dark Wolf Fantasy Reviews: "A very good book, with different stories that gathers different views of the apocalyptic events and I highly recommend it."