Pamphlet Five - When Star-Stuff Tells Stories: Translating science fiction as a metaphor of technology and wonder

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Calque Ideas provides an opportunity for writers to think aloud, using their own experiences and knowledge to approach topics in an accessible and attractive way.

Starting from the very earliest forms of human communication, the ways in which language developed into languages, and created the role of the translator, Sue Burke offers an invaluable guide to the importance and difficulties of translation on Earth, and gives us fascinating speculation about what might happen if we ever do come into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. This pamphlet addresses questions of what communication is, and how the translator is uniquely positioned to work at escaping the bounds of the medium and bringing pure meaning into an intelligible form.

• author: Sue Burke
• pages: 24

Sue Burke holds a Diploma in Translation for Spanish into English from the UK’s Chartered Institute of Linguists. She is a member of the American Translators Association and has won its Alicia Gordon Award for Word Artistry in Translation. Her most recent science fiction novel is Dual Memory (Tor). She also wrote the trilogy Semiosis, Interference, and Usurpation (forthcoming), which deals with communication across several species. Her other work includes short fiction, essays, and poetry. She currently lives in Chicago, where she enjoys cooking, growing houseplants, and strolling along Lake Michigan. Her website is www.sueburke.site.

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