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Jadress
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Location: Seattle. It purdy and nerdy!
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| I just wanted to note- the Stone Bridge Press translation of "Milky Way Railroad/Night on the Galactic Railroad" is considered a bit of a hack-job, considering all of the characters' names were changed from Italian names to random Japanese names (because a Japanese author writing about Western characters is "confusing"!). Check out some of the customer reviews on Amazon for more details. |
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Cowpunk
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Location: Oakland - near the Newtype Lab
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 3:00 pm |
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| The link to the press release requires a Yahoo Groups account. |
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linlinchan
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 10:02 pm |
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| Jadress wrote: | | I just wanted to note- the Stone Bridge Press translation of "Milky Way Railroad/Night on the Galactic Railroad" is considered a bit of a hack-job, considering all of the characters' names were changed from Italian names to random Japanese names (because a Japanese author writing about Western characters is "confusing"!). Check out some of the customer reviews on Amazon for more details. |
That's really really sad. I love this book.
For anyone interested in a largely intact translation, Kodansha released one a while ago for Japanese learning English under the title "Night Train to the Stars" that could probably be ordered via amazon.co.jp. |
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GATSU
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 11:43 pm |
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| Well, hopefully, they'll update the translation. |
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