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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 4d

One of them will be mine 😄 and another will be bound for Baoshu, whom you've met in Bulgaria last month.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 4d

... as well as Adrian Tchaikovsky 😀

Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 23d

Congrats to both of you! You both won!
星体 / Star Body won the Best Introduced Book award (最佳引进图书奖).
最后机会所在的城市 / City of Last Chances won the Best Translation award (最佳翻译奖). Li Keqin (李克勤) did a good job translating this amazing fantasy into Chinese.

City of Last Chances won the Best Translation award

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 28d

Katabasis UK edition (R) and its Chinese translation (L). Approaching the end of the former, will probably re-read with the latter.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · Aug 26

First used: Apple II;
First owned: LASER 310, as shown in the photo (re-shot), complete with a B&W TV set, a floppy disk drive on its left and a printer on the right. (looked it up just now and found that it was called VZ-300 in USA)

Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · Aug 7

*only* 4 more? I thought these Worlds would go on indefinitely...

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · Jun 30

Just finished Bee Speaker and I love Irae!!!

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · Jun 30

I found these new covers on B&N the week before. They seem to belong to a new paperback set due in 2026 (along with Bee Speaker paperback?). www.reddit.com/r/AdrianTcha...

New Dogs of War & Bear Head covers to match Bee Speaker in 2026?

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · Jun 29

Part 2 is out too! It comes with a surprise bonus of Human Resources, a short story set in the Service Model universe.

May and July issues of Science Fiction World (Translations), including both parts of Service Model Chinese translation, with the UK edition on the right.

Title and art of Human Resources Chinese translation

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Reposted by Prograft

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · Jun 19

Where does Kris hide her knife?

Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · Jun 19

Amazing!
certainly beats my The Expanse rip-off 3yr ago (www.reddit.com/r/AdrianTcha...)

Trying to visualize the five POV characters of SoE using screenshots from The Expanse

Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · Jun 16

Both 覆盆子 and 山莓 are correct. They are the same thing in Chinese I think. Some also call it 树莓 so I thought they grow on trees (but this doesn't look like a tree?).

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · May 27

Reaching 4-digit page numbers for the fourth time this year. (first if not counting re-reads)

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · May 19

Uncomfortably echoing SK's Rat which I've just read...

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · May 9

In Miniature, you wrote, in the note to Your Smart Appliances Talks About You Behind Your Back, that you "have performed it at various places". Can we hear it? I don't mean this piece in the picture; i mean the OTHER in the trailer!

Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · May 8

not always to me. Sometimes the Undesignated Valet Unit.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · May 8

Good for you! Still waiting for my copy, though I've read the English edition last year.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · May 7

City of Last Chances and Cage of Souls have been translated and serialised on SFW(T) previously. Here are their covers:

City of Last Chances, cover of part 1 (of 3)

City of Last Chances, cover of part 2 (of 3). The third part hasn't got its cover from this novel but from another.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · May 7

Here comes a nice surprise for my 2025 reads

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · May 6

Service Model starts its serialisation in the May issue of Science Fiction World (Translations) in China. This is the cover image of this magazine, just revealed. The banner on the right says "Short-listed for 2025 Hugo Best Novels".
The second half will be in the July issue.

cover image of SFW Translations May issue in China, featuring the first half of Service Model

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · May 6

Hooray for the double-double!

Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · Apr 21

congrats! Your second win in BSFA Best Shorter Fiction, and your fifth win in BSFA awards, right?

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · Apr 14

wow! another short story in this year (after Human Resources)!

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · Apr 13

"Keeping science fiction weird since 2005." well, can't argue with that. Keep on!

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