Deep Wheel Orcadia (Aziza's Secret Fairy Door, 226)
Scots 詩と SF を重ね合わせた実験的な長編で、宇宙都市 Deep Wheel Orcadia の生活と記憶を描く。言語そのものの手触りが作品の核心になっている。
作品情報
宇宙都市を、方言詩のリズムで立ち上げる。
『Deep Wheel Orcadia』は、宇宙ステーションに暮らす若者たちの生活を、Scots の声で描き出す。SF の世界設定と詩の形式が一体になり、移動、所属、記憶の感触を独特の密度で読ませる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Picador
- 発売日
- 2021-10-14
- ページ数
- 176ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.37 x 1.27 x 23.37 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781529066609
- ISBN-10
- 1529066603
- 価格
- 2498 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/British
Winner of the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind. Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire – all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. Hailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as a fine poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; Deep Wheel Orcadia now strikes out into audacious new space.
Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney. She holds an MA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia received the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year. Her poetry collections – Tonguit and The Games – were shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year. Them! is her fourth poetry collection.
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This is such a brilliant idea. Translation and original txt on same page, also includes all meanings in translated text which forces the reader to engage with the poetry rather than just absorbing in . Writing to admire
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Thanks to the playfully written parallel English translation, you needn't be put off of buying this book if you feel like the Orcadian will be beyond your grasp. Giles' fun use of compound words makes it feel like we're reading the result of a well-programmed and well-meaning piece of Artificial Intelligence software trying hard to give as faithful a translation as possible, which feels right at home in the story's setting. From layout to wording, the translation draws you back to the original text in ways you might not have expected, but will enjoy and emerge from feeling thankful!
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SciFi, told in verse, in Orcadian. Tiny, isolated Orcadia Station & vast, busy Mars are obvious analogues for Orkney & mainland Scotland. The author's English translation is done so beautifully it is poetry in its own right. Rich and warm, it draws you in to its storytelling. "Black lines fer the starns, blue dubs fer the tides, green aircs fer the grand skail o wheels and airms and bolas gathered roond Central."
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The swap between English and the Orkney dialect for successive chapters made this a difficult book to read on the kindle. I gave up quite quickly as chapter skipping is tedious on my device and I don't want to repeat read chapters is different dialects. It should probably be supplied as two e-books in this case. I can't really comment further on the content as the mechanics of reading it made me move onto the next book in my list.
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I have bought and read the Arthur C Clarke winner for over 20 years and usually work my way through the list of nominees when I can. It provides some of the UKs finest science fiction writers. This was a disappointing winner, in fact the most disappointing winner ever. I think the author has given us brave and experimental way to write based on a regional dialect most readers will never encounter and that there is definitely a place for this type of writing. But personally for me I don't think it's worthy of the award.
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