A fire in the sun
by George Alec Effinger · first published 1989
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> Winston Churchill would be represented by hanzi that would be transliterated Wensuteng Chuerqilu. reminds me of one of my favorite throw-away gags in George Alec Effinger’s A Fire in the Sun, a cyberpunk novel set in future Arabia, a character quotes “the great English shahrir, Wilyam al-Shaykh Sābir”
on “If English was written like Chinese (1999)” ↗…which I hadn't already read (I bought HP Lovecraft Complete Fiction) * Grimm's Fairy Tales * Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius * Takeshi Kovacs series by Richard K. Morgan * A Fire in the Sun (Budayeen series) by George Alec Effinger * Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey * Hunted (Iron Druid Chronicles) by Kevin Hearne * Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge Also I've been watching videos more than…
on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?” ↗