Oh, and Look, the Korean Version of Zoe’s Tale Arrived at the House Today

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1. MVS says:
   October 25, 2012 at 1:16 pm

   Opa gangnam stylin!
2. Palpatim says:
   October 25, 2012 at 1:17 pm

   Out of curiosity, what cover depicts one of your characters in a manner that most closely resembles the picture you have of them in your head?
3. Joe says:
   October 25, 2012 at 1:23 pm

   “Joey Iyaki”
4. John Scalzi says:
   October 25, 2012 at 1:23 pm

   Palpatim:

   The SubPress limited cover.
5. Joe says:
   October 25, 2012 at 1:24 pm

   by “John Suh-kal-ji.”
6. MM(U says:
   October 25, 2012 at 1:28 pm

   GREAT! Now, you might not imagine it, but I having your books in Korean means I can teach them in English, and we get to talk about your worlds in my English classes. I would much rather use your science fiction than Orson Scott’s, since I like your worlds. (I still teach Ender’s Game, since my kids get the fact that there is something really really wrong with that book.)

   I can’t promise you riches, but I can tell you that having this out in Korea gets you both twenty copies of the Korean, and twenty copies of the English. I’ll send you a picture the next time we read one in class.
7. John Scalzi says:
   October 25, 2012 at 1:30 pm

   Cool!
8. Shrike58 says:
   October 25, 2012 at 1:47 pm

   If nothing else the mood is appropriately pensive considering the events of the novel.
9. Leon Rosenshein says:
   October 25, 2012 at 2:03 pm

   Now this cover makes sense, especially compared to the Japanese Android’s Dream cover
10. Anne says:
    October 25, 2012 at 4:02 pm

    Yes, That SubPress cover is awesome indeed.
11. Steve Davidson says:
    October 25, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    yes it is, especially since I have one, though I failed to get John to sign it at Boskone because I wanted to bother him about other things.
12. mimo says:
    October 25, 2012 at 4:40 pm

    heh, they translated “old-man’s war” into “the elderlys’ war”. that’s not exactly how i thought of the series.
13. Shawn T says:
    October 25, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    ” “Out of curiosity, what cover depicts one of your characters in a manner that
    most closely resembles the picture you have of them in your head?” ”
    “The SubPress limited cover.”
    http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/zoes_tale ?
    -
    I took the q. as general, not specific to “Zoe’s Tale,” but I suppose that talking
    about other novel’s covers would be off topic here.
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    IMO. she doesn’t look sneaky enough on that cover, but it /is/ a good one, more
    like the artist has at least skimmed the book than most cover art demonstrates.
14. Shawn T says:
    October 25, 2012 at 8:59 pm

    Heh, but Zoe’d know better than to look sneaky, wouldn’t she.
15. McIsaac says:
    October 28, 2012 at 7:55 am

    Hangul is the Korean alphabet. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have the consonants (sounds) for f, r, v, and z. They substitute b for f, so instead of fish, they say bish; substitute l for r, so Lonald instead of Ronald, actually Lo-nal-duh. V is like f, they substitute b sound, so biolin instead of violin. And, finally, Koreans substitute the j sound for z, so Zoe sounds like Joey. Thus why the book cover actually read’s Joey’s Tale, or Jo-e E-yah-gi.

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