Showing posts with label Interview with a Translator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interview with a Translator. Show all posts

Translation by Eugene Woodbury Available

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Eugene completed a number of translations, most notably translations of Twelve Kingdoms novels. He understood that a translation is itself a...

Interview with the Translator: Halloween & Zombies

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Kate: The Hinman who attack Risai and Gyousuu’s group in Hills of Silver Ruins seem like a cross between zombies and werewolves.  Do the ...

Interview with the Translator, Hills of Silver Ruins: The End...Perhaps

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Kate: Hills of Silver Ruins ends on an “And far away, the thudding of the drums" Sassoon note . How does this ending compare to other...
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Interview with the Translator: Hills of Silver Ruins, Karma

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Kate: In Book IV, Chapter 38 of Hills of Silver Ruin s, Taiki needs to return to Mount Hou to recover from taking blood. In several books, ...

Interview with the Translator, Hills of Silver Ruins: Taiki and Pacifism

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Kate: Chapters 34 & 35 of Hills of Silver Ruins are very exciting! Chapter 34 specifically does a great job paying off Taiki's out...

Interview with the Translator: Hills of Silver Ruins, Shakespeare

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Kate: From Chapter 33 of Book IV of Hills of Silver Ruins , Risai's attitude reminds me of Hamlet at the end of the play, when he final...

Interview with the Translator: Hills of Silver Ruins, Fatalism

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Kate: In Book IV of Hills of Silver Ruins , several supporters of Gyousou determine to go down fighting. Better that option than the alterna...

Interview with the Translator: Hills of Silver Ruins, Ukou's Death & War Crimes

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Kate: Even though Asen is a bad guy, his disposal of Ukou is a relief. In saner times, the man would be held and tried for war crimes. Do...

Interview with the Translator: Hills of Silver Ruins, Battle Tactics II

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Kate: In Hills of Silver Ruins , Book IV, " disguised as civilians, [the land gangs would] mingle among them in the cities and the fie...

Interview with the Translator: Hills of Silver Ruins, Battle Tactics I

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Kate: Some of the battle tactics by the land gangs described in Hills of Silver Ruins remind me of the assault by Saruman on Helm’s Deep: ...

Interview with the Translator, Hills of Silver Ruins: Westerns

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Kate: Gyousou’s taming of Ragou in Book IV of Hills of Silver Ruins reminds me of bucking bronchos. I've been watching lots of Don Ma...
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Interview with the Translator: Hills of Silver Ruins, Soldiers & Shakespeare

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Kate: Based on the conflicting belief systems of Asen’s good retainers in Hills of Silver Ruins , how do you think they would respond to H...

Interview with the Translator: Hills of Silver Ruins, Star Wars II

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Kate: As discussed in the prior post , Star Wars indirectly furthered classic archetypes in the science-fiction community. Did 1977 Star ...
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Interview with the Translator, Hills of Silver Ruins: Star Wars I

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Kate: Gyousou’s storyline in Hills of Silver Ruins has an Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars IV aura about it, the shadowy master Jedi who is st...

Interview with the Translator, Hills of Silver Hills: Bureaucrats II

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Kate: An interesting point made in Hills of Silver Ruins and elsewhere, including the short stories, is that the worst thing a new empero...

Interview with the Translator, Hills of Silver Ruins: Bureaucrats I

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Kate: Ono captures chillingly well the infighting, Screwtape Letters , dog-eat-dog nature of bureaucrats. In many fantasy books, the hero...