Review of China Miéville's _Kraken_

[kestrell]

There is a new issue of Green Man Review online
http://www.greenmanreview.com/
which includes a lot of very spiffy things, such as a discussion of fantastic fictional bars, a non-fiction book on Icelanders, and a review of the new anthology _Sympathy for the Devil_, whi9ch features many fascinating stories about that man of wealth and taste.

There is also my review of _Kraken_
http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_mieville_kraken.html
which, after a weekend at Readercon, I am pretty certain is pronounced CROCK-en.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Well, that's how the Brits pronounce it. In the midwest, it rhymes with with RAKE un.

Good con?

[kestrell]

Yes, I was pronouncing it "krake-un" also, because that is how my TTS pronounces it, but the American writers and editors seem to have picked up the British pronounciation, so that is how I am going to try to remember it.

Great con, more aboutit when I recover a bit. My talk on "What Good Writers Still Get Wrong about Blind People" seemed to go quie well, I got lots of compliments on it and--a friend told me this afterward--had a full room with some people sitting on the floor. I'm glad I didn't know that, or I would have been even more nervous than I was. It helped that people started asking me questions pretty early, so that kept things lively.

I'll be posting the essay to my online journals so you can read it.