Yeah, and you should see the rest of the paragraph. LOLThe hissing door thing bothers me at well.
Too bad we've ousted all the content editors.
Yeah, and you should see the rest of the paragraph. LOLThe hissing door thing bothers me at well.
Hugo or not, though I finished A Memory called Empire, I won't be continuing with the series. I felt it was greatly overhyped, which isn't necessarily the end of the world but I also found almost everything about the culture completely unlikely. For example, and forgive me if I've misremembered the exact name, message sticks; why, when you have that sort of technology would you have such a thing? You might as well go back to writing letters. Did they not have any sort of encrypted email system? Oh, of course it was necessary for the story so lets invent a totally unlikely cultural element that gives great story lines. I'm afraid the whole book felt like that to me.Hugo or not, if I have to go here for interpretation I am completely out of the story.
What’s in a Teixcalaanli Name? - Tor/Forge Blog
Arkady Martine's brilliant space opera A Memory Called Empire came out today, and we've been waiting to share some of our many feelings. And our Teixcalaanli names.www.torforgeblog.com
Clear communication should be any writer's chief goal––this said, and appreciating the need for exotic/other-worldly vibes in Fantasy/Sci-Fi fiction, even authors in these genres shouldn’t be exceptions.Hello, I'm new to this forum.
And the title says it all.
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Not sure I agree with that at all for fiction. Feersum Endjin and The Peripheral are gloriously unclear in parts to bring mystery to the stories.Clear communication should be any writer's chief goal–
I finished reading it just the other day, and I feel like I should point out that the reason they use the things they do is fairly well justified; it’s a very old empire, and some of the things they do are very much “because tradition says so”, and for no other good reason. The protagonist points out when she encounters the message sticks that they’re kinda weird, and the “encryption” is more ceremonial than anything else—because it’s an old empire, and set in its ways to the point where coup d’etats have formalities to them. Take a look someday at the way the Byzantine Empire (which I suspect is the empire the Teixcalaanli are based off of) and other empires that lasted past their prime did things; there’s a reason “byzantine” means “overly complex and bureaucratic”. Tradition can, at times, be a PITA, especially when it’s had more than its fair share of time to build.Hugo or not, though I finished A Memory called Empire, I won't be continuing with the series. I felt it was greatly overhyped, which isn't necessarily the end of the world but I also found almost everything about the culture completely unlikely. For example, and forgive me if I've misremembered the exact name, message sticks; why, when you have that sort of technology would you have such a thing? You might as well go back to writing letters. Did they not have any sort of encrypted email system? Oh, of course it was necessary for the story so lets invent a totally unlikely cultural element that gives great story lines. I'm afraid the whole book felt like that to me.
Yes, that, and also... I find it kind of wholesome when Katie from Shropshire or Steve from Ohio is happily throwing around names like "Ryu Fukujima" or "Kodachi Makimura" like it's no big deal.Like if a character's name is 'Go' and they are of European descent as opposed to an Asian character by the same name. One means to Proceed forward and the other means the number 5. Knowing this can change the readers understanding of the character.
My eyes glide right over that, and my attention doesn't return until we get back to English. FTR, I did the same with Tolkien's elvish poems. Once I had read the trilogy, maybe even not until the second or third pass, I did take time to try to pronounce my way through them, but only as idle diversion.