1) I got my contributor copy of Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, and somehow it's even more squee-inducing than the copies in the bookstore
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I got Science Fiction Studies in the mail, opened it today. I noticed all the Octavia Butler-related content. Did not know you were in there! You're everywhere now!
Hee! I'm just one page (438-9) of thinking-out-loud in the middle of a whole lot of far more clueful work, in this one. Also I'm Sweta. But I'm glad to have written it and honored to be in the special section :)
I sympathize with you on the name misspelling. More than once (including in a printed TOC) I've ended up with an extra R or two in my surname. It's a small thing, sure, but it's irritating.
Argh! YES to irritating/frustrating, and yeah I remember it happening to you. All the more reason to keep one's bibliography up to date I guess *eyes her out-of-date bibliography uneasily*
Look at it this way: your name written in the Latin alphabet is an approximation anyway, just as mine is whether they write it Athena or Athina or any other way. The first couple of times someone calls me "Andrea" I correct them gently. After that, I assign them to the pile of "power gamers and/or buried in their own navel lint" -- especially those who say they write speculative fiction but can't handle names that veer off Jim, Bob or Dick.
your name written in the Latin alphabet is an approximation anyway,
Yes, and Shweta, Sweta, swetha, shveta, sveta, svetha, shwetha, etc are all valid/canonical approximations. And Schweta is pretty funny. So most of the time I'm not bothered.
But when it's a publication? Spelling actually matters, it being how people can find my stuff.
...Also WTF, how can people simultaneously claim that Greek myth is "theirs" or "universal" and get confused over the name Athena??
Consistent spelling for published work is a very valid point.
Yes, that kind of "confusion" over names usually signals a particular type of mental laziness. As you point out, the name itself is neither hard nor particularly alien.
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All the more reason to keep one's bibliography up to date I guess *eyes her out-of-date bibliography uneasily*
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That's what I should have been searching on.
And now, done. Though with much confusion; they really don't want us to do that, huh? So they made it as inconvenient as they could...
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Yes, and Shweta, Sweta, swetha, shveta, sveta, svetha, shwetha, etc are all valid/canonical approximations. And Schweta is pretty funny. So most of the time I'm not bothered.
But when it's a publication? Spelling actually matters, it being how people can find my stuff.
...Also WTF, how can people simultaneously claim that Greek myth is "theirs" or "universal" and get confused over the name Athena??
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Yes, that kind of "confusion" over names usually signals a particular type of mental laziness. As you point out, the name itself is neither hard nor particularly alien.
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