In Russia, Zoe’s Tale Reads You

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1. Ray says:
   April 7, 2008 at 5:47 pm

   I feel shiny for you!
   That’s awsome!
2. JLR says:
   April 7, 2008 at 5:50 pm

   Congrats.
3. Diondi Tan says:
   April 7, 2008 at 5:59 pm

   I ?????????? ???. In Cyrillic, of course.
4. Chang, puppy wrangler! says:
   April 7, 2008 at 6:04 pm

   W-w-w-w-w-w-w-wait!

   Zoe’s Tale is out already? Where the frig have I been?

   Oh, wait. Never mind. August. Good.
5. JJS says:
   April 7, 2008 at 6:07 pm

   I suspect that “? ?????????? ???” is more appropriate.
6. Jim Wright says:
   April 7, 2008 at 6:35 pm

   I feel shiny

   That’s a side effect of the secret NSA spy beam – consorting with Russians, the French, and Germany, yeah, you’re on the list.

   Oh, wait, I’m consorting with you, damn, now I’m on the list too. Scalzi, you bastard, does your subversive evil know no bounds?
7. Andrew says:
   April 7, 2008 at 6:56 pm

   You do realize if Tor blows things and the schedule slips such that Zoe’s Tale is published in Russian long before it is published in English, we will import Russian copies and have them translated, right?

   (Past history: Winterfair Gifts, by Lois McMaster Bujold, translated from the Croatian by several fans.
8. Nathan says:
   April 7, 2008 at 6:58 pm

   Please tone down the shininess just a tad. The glare is killing me.
9. John Scalzi says:
   April 7, 2008 at 7:09 pm

   Andrew:

   Considering that the Russian version of The Last Colony has not been published yet, I think there will be some time yet before ZT comes out there. So Tor would have to slip a truly epic amount.
10. Mark Olbert says:
    April 7, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    Okay, now here’s an off-topic question: you feel “shiny”? What exactly does that mean? Besides that you may be a secret Firefly fan?? :)

    I say secret ’cause a site search on “firefly” turned up zero hits…
11. John Scalzi says:
    April 7, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    I was using “shiny” before Firefly existed.
12. Dr. Phil says:
    April 7, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    I was using “shiny” before Firefly existed.

    The Scalzi glare is even recursive.

    Dr. Phil
13. Paul Barnes says:
    April 7, 2008 at 10:19 pm

    so, how does it feel that commies find your works to be ideologically acceptable?

    Should we start calling you John Stalin?
14. Dan C says:
    April 8, 2008 at 6:47 am

    I was using “shiny” before Firefly existed.

    Maybe Mr Whedon is a secret “Whatever” fan. :)
15. Ilya Burlak says:
    April 8, 2008 at 9:51 am

    2 Diondy Tan and JJS (and of course, 2 Scalzi):

    The correct phraze would be ? ??? ?????????? (different word order and verb conjugation). Those online translators can only take you so far… :)
16. Udarnik says:
    April 8, 2008 at 10:09 am

    Ilya beat me to it. ?????????? is more like “congratulations” than “congratulate” in English.

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