Re: equinox

At 12:45 -0700 on 25.9.1998, JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON wrote:


> On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > Pablo Flores wrote:
> > > It seems very similar to LeGuin's "Exile Planet", that I just
> > > commented, but it's different enough to presume you're talking about
> > > something else. Couldn't it be Robert Heinlein's "Double Star"?
> > > (I've not read it, I just remember the title).
> >
> > No.  The books are called Winter on _______ and Summer on _______ and
> > Spring on ________, where the blank is whatever the heck the planet is
> > called.  I don't remember.
>
> Ooh, ooh!  The author is Brian Aldiss.
Yes, now that you say it.

> I don't remember the name of
> the planet, though.
Heliconia.

I haven't read them either.  Just heard that they were an all time low in
hasty English -> Swedish translation...  If it was the same person as
translated Aldiss' other books that appeared in Swedish I can well believe
it, though I've seen crap work elsewhere that can't possibly be sub-passed.
(People keep telling me _my_ translation work is good, but _would_ they
tell me otherwise?

ObConlang: I've actually mused on creating a future, featureless Swenglish
based on the translationese everybody reads, apparently without getting
bored, in this country.


B.Philip. Jonsson <bpj@...>

Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant (Tacitus)
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