Dutch TPOTS

[ellenkushner]

Oh, boy! Found the new Dutch edition online: Het Privilege von het Zwaard (Luitingh-Sijthoff - my book is Luitingh, I guess, described on this agent's page as books that are thrilling, imaginative, scary, amazing or addictive - that would be me, then. Here's a link to a long article from PW about Dutch publishing, of interest only to the trade).

I thought it was being published in February, but looks like they moved it to July. That explains why I couldn't find the cover (below) til now. I got it off of this website - for a good time, tell Google to translate the page for you - that's all I'll say for now.


ADDED: The actual publisher's page for Het Privilege is here.

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[redbird]

Machine translation, for the win. Though natural language is amusing even without that: even knowing exactly what it means, I am amused that the combination of what words are and aren't different means that you have written a book whose Dutch title contains the phrase "Het Privilege."

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

This.

In the vein of the old joke that translates the title of this Palestrina motet (http://www.music44.com/X/product/312-42002-C) as "I am a black person, even though I come from Taiwan" I am retranslating this title as "Het Privilege from the Sword."

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Youse guys is good!

When I first heard about the Dutch translation, I actually wrote a whole post headlined "Het Privilege - but not what you think!" I guess I never did finish it, though. So thanks for taking care of that.

(Still laughing about Taiwan!)

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

Hey! I know you! I know you from my, like, six-month S_F binge! I always thought you were kind of awesome, and the awesome meter just rose a whole lot. :)

Apologies for comment hijacking

[medievalist.livejournal.com]

Did you see this answer, from Sarah Monette about why she includes gay characters in her novels?

Scroll down to the end of the page:

http://truepenny.livejournal.com/587672.html?mode=reply

It's something I've been thinking about a lot of late, about how what I read in childhood and adolescence shaped me, and helped me realize that I could shape my behavior, and beliefs, and thus shape my life. I've been trying to blog about this for months now, after seeing a panel at Potlatch on "the third wave" in GLBT fiction.

The panel horrified me, depressed me, and mostly, pissed me off--for many reasons, among them the assertion that queer sf should only be written (and read!) by "legitimately queer" people.

So Sarah's post made me feel ever so much better.

Re: Apologies for comment hijacking

[dewinblaidd.livejournal.com]

Wow. I love Sarah Monette too, so knowing that makes her even cooler!

Re: Apologies for comment hijacking

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

...Does that mean "legitimately queer" people can't write any straight characters?

Re: Apologies for comment hijacking

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Oh, golly! I'd put off clicking on the link because I thought it would be a long essay I'd have to think about & maybe even respond to - but this? Pure candy!! Thank you very much.

Your description of the Potlatch panel is indeed disturbing - and surprising. I thought we were past that, at least as far as queerness went! Gosh, what a good thing I married Delia instead of all those guys I was going out with . . . . Sure would hate to be "illegitimately queer"!

There's a lot more I could say about this, but my back hurts - and you know I Don't Do Essays. However, feel free to hijack - or nudge - me again sometime; it's an interesting topic, and I guess I'm in the hotseat.

Re: Apologies for comment hijacking

[medievalist.livejournal.com]

I should add that there was a dissenting voice on the panel--it wasn't a unanimous assertion.

But it troubles me that anyone would still make the assertion, at all.

And the underlying assumptions are even more troubling.

I will nudge you, and thanks for such a gracious reply.

[annnimeee.livejournal.com]

It looks very Penguin Classics book-ish; like the kind that is required reading for college lit courses.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Wow - I never thought of that, but you're right!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Classy. (Does this mean we have to abbreviate it to HPVHZ now? At least TPOTS is pronounceable...)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Yipes - it sounds like a Virus! I could make some lame joke about it being a word in Dutch - but I'm much too enchanted with nicknaming it "Het Privilege." Works for me.