{"id":570,"date":"2009-07-22T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T19:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=570"},"modified":"2009-07-22T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T19:41:42","slug":"odds-and-ends-from-exotic-environs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Odds and Ends from Exotic Environs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember a while back that <em>Blindflug<\/em> was on the final ballot for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=407\">some prestigious German Award<\/a>.  Turns out I didn&#8217;t get it (I keep getting beat out by some guy named Charlie Stross, whoever <em>he <\/em>is) but Sara Riffel\u2014 the lady who translated <em>Blindsight<\/em> into <em>Blindflug<\/em>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fantasy.de\/2009\/07\/kurd-lasswitz-preis-2009\/\">did, for &#8220;Best Translation&#8221;<\/a>.  And let&#8217;s face it, anyone who can take a book that so many found incomprehensible even in its native language and render it comprehensible in some other, deserves an award far more than I.  So:  heartfelt congratulations to Sara on a job which, as it turned out, was not quite so thankless as one might have expected.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I don&#8217;t have a perk or two to console me in my own loserhood, mind you.  I just signed a contract with ERUM Publishing for a Korean edition of <em>Blindsight<\/em>, which must push up to around a dozen the number of languages in which that book appears (or will appear).  It&#8217;s nowhere near Harry Potter or the Bible in terms of total translations of course, but at least it&#8217;s more adult.  Oh, and apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleuvenoir.fr\/\">Fleuve Noir<\/a> is planning to put <em>Starfish<\/em> out in French next year (under a different title, I&#8217;m hoping, than the too-obvious <em>Poissons de l&#8217;\u00c9toile<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps the most cockle-warming item on today&#8217;s agenda is the discovery (albeit belated) that <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/\">io9<\/a>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=172\"> The Site Which Never Tires of Posting About Science-Fiction Vampires While Never  Mentioning <em>Blindsight<\/em><\/a> \u2014 has mentioned <em>Blindsight<\/em> in <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5305796\/vampires-%20-in-space-or-the-future-or-both\">a post about science-fiction vampires<\/a>.  Coming late upon that item, I did not see said posting in its original form, which judging by one of the comments completely misdescribed <em>Blindsight<\/em>&#8216;s plot.  That mistake had been corrected by the time I stumbled onto the scene.  But hey:  at least they&#8217;re not outright ignoring me any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember a while back that Blindflug was on the final ballot for some prestigious German Award. Turns out I didn&#8217;t get it (I keep getting beat out by some guy named Charlie Stross, whoever he is) but Sara Riffel\u2014 the lady who translated Blindsight into Blindflug\u2014 did, for &#8220;Best Translation&#8221;. And let&#8217;s face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}