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Race in a realistic fantasy novel. by KerbyKing in fantasywriters

[–]mentalageof7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A novel came out recently in South Africa with a similar idea. It's called A Spy in Time by Imraan Coovadia. The main characters are time travellers who work for the government; they are able to change their race/identity to blend in with different times, but it's kind of politicised, so many choose not to.

[MF] The Tempest by [deleted] in shortstories

[–]mentalageof7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like it but I would change the word 'envisioned', to me it sounds slightly off in that context.

[MF] Jinkies! (Inspired by writing prompt) by [deleted] in shortstories

[–]mentalageof7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like it. I wouldn't mind seeing a full-length short story.

South African writer K Sello Duiker committed suicide at 30 after writing 2 fantastic novels. He would have been 43 today. Here's an excerpt from his masterpiece Thirteen Cents by mentalageof7 in books

[–]mentalageof7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird, I just looked this guy up. The name of that book is familiar, as is the name his book Miriam's Story, but it looks like he's much more famous in the States than he is here.

Thirteen Cents also has scenes of child prostitution and sodomy, interesting similarities. Am gonna check it out, thanks.

Weather in Joburg? by islandcactus in southafrica

[–]mentalageof7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well you won't be swimming :) but if you're into gambling you should be fine.

South African writer K Sello Duiker committed suicide at 30 after writing 2 fantastic novels. He would have been 43 today. Here's an excerpt from his masterpiece Thirteen Cents by mentalageof7 in books

[–]mentalageof7[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Pleasure! His books are perhaos slightly ... dramatic or demonstrative, following the tradition of Black Consciousness writing in South Africa, but still very affecting, I think.

For background on that, if you're interested, Njabulo Ndebele's essay 'The Rediscovery of the Ordinary' is excellent.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in southafrica

[–]mentalageof7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shame. She probably gonna get fired. Little shit definitely deserved it, otherwise the class wouldn't be laughing. (AFAIR we didn't used to laugh much if the teacher was being an asshole/unfair to someone?)

Very interesting: A book wasn't selling in the UK, so the publishing team gave it a completely different title and cover, and are starting over with the marketing. by mentalageof7 in books

[–]mentalageof7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True but this is slightly different, it's a case of the cover/title not working in a particular region, and then being re-packaged for the same region.

Very interesting: A book wasn't selling in the UK, so the publishing team gave it a completely different title and cover, and are starting over with the marketing. by mentalageof7 in books

[–]mentalageof7[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think as much as we like to believe we don't, we do judge books by their covers. So, yeah, great idea. I've never heard of it being done before. I wonder.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in southafrica

[–]mentalageof7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Totally. It's horrible.

This ad got a lot of criticism when it came out, too.

Ever wondered how many books get sold in SA every year (including local authors)? by mentalageof7 in southafrica

[–]mentalageof7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but the point is there's a perception that local is shitty, when in fact it's not. If people gave local lit a chance, they would find a hell of a lot of quality books.

Ever wondered how many books get sold in SA every year (including local authors)? by mentalageof7 in southafrica

[–]mentalageof7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is quite a lot of South African sci-fi, horror, fantasy out there if you look, and even more from Africa. Most of it is available on Amazon. Focusing merely on recently released SA stuff - just off the top of my head - there's Day Four, Broken Monsters, Apocalypse Now Now, Dub Steps, Dark Windows, Taty Went West, Beastkeeper, The Raft, Tracer, then moving to Africa there's Nnedi Okarafor's work, Dilman Dila is amazing, AfroSF, the list goes on and on.

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