Aliette de Bodard's "Redressing the translation imbalance"

[james_davis_nicoll]

The offer:

Do you like my stuff? Have you read (or written) a short story in your own (or another) language which you think is a) totally awesome and b) very much of my sensibility? Does it have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting translated into English, and you don’t quite have the chops to get it right yourself? Is it under 7000 words, and previously published in a paying, prestigious, or otherwise gate-kept market in the source market (i.e., not slush)?

How about we collaborate?

Comments

[peter-erwin.livejournal.com]

Note that this is actually Benjamin Rosenbaum's idea (http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2014_02.html#001043) to begin with (as Aliette de Bodard acknowledges); in fact, the bit that you've excerpted is entirely Rosenbaum's words, quoted by de Bodard.