Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:47:50 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Tpyos ... [WSFA] Re: Shopping online?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> omni at omniphile.com 12/21/2005 3:41:30 PM >>>

>When I was in Berlin a while back I noticed a Gibson translation in a

>bookstore.  The English title is "Neuromancer", but the German book
>was
>titled "Neue Romanceur" ("New Romancer").  Kinda makes you
>wonder about
>other things that got translated from other languages, eh?

Somtow Sucharitkul's first book was "Starship and Haiku"  and it dealt
with whales.  Imagine his surprise when the German edition appeared with
a samurai sword  draped with bits of cloth as the cover image.
Supposedly when he asked "Why?" the respones was "Vell, zie book iz
about vhales..."   vhales.... veils....  (See:
http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j83/7/)

mjw