Thanks for this very clear explanation! One suggestion and one pony request:
Could you add this information to the FAQ? I went there first looking for information about what block and mute mean on Imzy, but didn't find it. (I also don't seem to have any information about them on my Account page, maybe because I haven't muted or blocked anyone.)
Pony request: will there ever be a way to hide individual posts, a la Reddit?
If we do short stories, they don't only have to be in the public domain; there are a lot of online magazines that put up their stories for free: Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, I think Tor.com? And a few others.
(Though if we go with Gutenberg, I vote for SF classic Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19445 )
I picked "Black Wolves" by Kate Elliott back up. I've been in this cycle where I read and enjoy about 80 pages of it but then put it down for 3-5 weeks, so now I'm going to try to finish it up.
There's a lot of good stuff out there! Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (which is reviewed in the article) is a pretty good novel, and I would also recommend the Dark Matter short story anthology as a good starting point. (And of course there's also non-literary works, like Janelle Monae's Metropolis: The Chase Suites.)
I didn't even know we had one!
I don't think The Grace of Kings was translated, but there's...
- "Dragon Sword and Wind Child" by Noriko Ogiwara
- "Kalpa Imperial" by Angélica Gorodischer (translated by Ursula Le Guin!)
- "Dictionary of the Khazars" by Milorad Pavić
- "The Neverending Story", Michael Ende
- Lots of Latin American magical realism, of course (Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, etc.)
Also I read a pretty decent fan translation of "Legend of the White-Haired Demoness" by Liang Yusheng.
Looks great! Though are we not allowing polls?



ImzyYou can now block users (in addition to muting)Nov 30, 2016 at 4:47 PM

