Lost in the Translation : the answers

Isaac Asimov

• Foundation trilogy
  • Basement trilogy — (Andrew Plotkin)
• Foundation
  • Basement — (Jay Random)
• Foundation and Empire
  • Colonial Basement — (Jay Random)
• Second Foundation
  • Sub-Basement — (Jay Random)
• Foundation’s Edge
  • Basement Wall — (Jay Random)
  • The Edge of the Base — (Babelfish, English/French/English)
• Foundation and Earth
  • Basement And Subsoil — (Jay Random)
  • Base and Ground — (Babelfish, English/French/English)
  • Basis and Mass — (Babelfish, English/German/English)
• Prelude to Foundation
  • Excavation — (Jay Random)
• Forward the Foundation
  • Towards The Front Of The Basement — (Jay Random)
  • Dispatch the Base — (Babelfish, English/French/English)
  • Send After to Basis — (Babelfish, English/German/English)
• I Robot
  • That’s me: Mr Robot — (Joe Slater)

Iain M. Banks

• Against a Dark Background
  • In Relief — (Zara Bee)
  • On Dark a Bottom — (Babelfish, English/French/English)
• Feersum Endjinn
  • Skairy Mowter — (Paul Clarke)

John Barnes

• One for the Morning Glory
  • The Single Columbine — (Jo Walton)

Alfred Bester

• The Demolished Man
  • The Man who was Killed — (Lance Purple)

Ray Bradbury

• Fahrenheit 451
  • Approximately 218.5555 Celsius — (Brent P. Newhall)

David Brin

• Glory Season
  • In The Future, Everyone Will Be Famous for Fifteen Weeks — (Andrew Plotkin)

John Brunner

• Stand on Zanzibar
  • The Tanzanian Easel — (Danny Sichel)

Algis Budrys

• Rogue Moon
  • Rascal Displays his Buttocks — (Andy Hatt)

Lois McMaster Bujold

• Shards of Honour
  • Fragments of Repute — (Robert A. Woodward)
• Falling Free
  • Weightless — (Robert A. Woodward)

Orson Scott Card

• Speaker for the Dead
  • Medium — (Zara Bee)
  • Loudspeaker for the Dead — (Babelfish, English/German/English)

Raphael Carter

• The Fortunate Fall
  • The Lucky Season Before Winter — (Thomas Yan)
  • The Lucky Case — (Babelfish, English/German/English)

C. J. Cherryh

• Downbelow Station
  • Australia Post — (Zara Bee)
  • Going Under, Standing Still (owes something to Spider Robinson, no doubt) — (Andrew Plotkin)
  • Subway — (Zara Bee)

Arthur C. Clarke

• Childhood’s End
  • Puberty — (Andrew Plotkin)
• The Songs of Distant Earth
  • Music From Remote Ground — (Mark Hughes)
  • Songs Far Away from the Ground — (Babelfish, English/French/English)

Hal Clement

• Mission of Gravity
  • A Very Important Mission — (JohnnyPez9)

Pamela Dean

• The Hidden Land
  • The Covered Ground — (Thomas Yan)
• The Whim of the Dragon
  • The Lizard’s Fancy — (Thomas Yan)
• The Dubious Hills
  • Dunno About Those Mountains — (Thomas Yan)
• The Secret Country
  • The Place That Isn’t Supposed to be Talked About — (Thomas Yan)

Samuel R. Delany

• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
  • The Famous People I Control Enjoy the Beach — (Timothy J. Gawne)

Stephen Donaldson

• The Power That Preserves
  • Jam-Making Energy — (Mark Hughes)
  • The Energy Memories — (Babelfish, English/German/English)

Debra Doyle and James D. MacDonald

• The Price of the Stars
  • Huge Salaries — (Samuel Paik)
  • The Price of the Asterisks — (Babelfish, English/German/English)

Umberto Eco

• Foucault’s Pendulum
  • Foucault’s Gravity Actuated Freely Swinging Body — (Jonathan W Hendry)

Greg Egan

• Axiomatic
  • Completely Basic — (Gareth Wilson)
• Distress
  • Misery — (Mark Hughes)
• Permutation City
  • Yict — (Andrew Plotkin)

Harlan Ellison

• “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman
  • “Seek Forgiveness for your Sins, Clown,” ordered the Clockmaker — (Keith Morrison)
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
  • I Am Missing an Oral Orifice and Am Required to Yell Piercingly — (Keith Morrison)
  • I Don’t Have Lips So I Talk Very Loudly — (Joe Slater)

Harry Harrison

• Make Room! Make Room!
  • Get out of My Way! Get out of My Way! — (Joe Slater)

Robert A. Heinlein

• Stranger in a Strange Land
  • The Alien at Home — (David Given)
  • Foreigner Not in his Homeland — (Brent P. Newhall)
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • Bondage Girl on the Moon — (Andrew Plotkin)
• Star Beast
  • Lead Animal — (David Given)
• To Sail Beyond the Sunset
  • Westward Boating — (David Given)
  • To Navigate Beyond Laying Down Sun — (Babelfish, English/French/English)

Frank Herbert

• Dune
  • A Pile of Sand — (Euan Troup)

James P. Hogan

• Giants’ Star
  • Featuring The Acromegalics — (Danny Sichel)

Norton Juster

• The Phantom Tollbooth
  • The Fictitious Revenue Collection Enclosure — (Jonathan W Hendry)

Stephen King

• Needful Things
  • Stuff You Must Have — (Mark Hughes)
• Misery
  • Distress — (Mark Hughes)

Nancy Kress

• Beggars in Spain
  • Hispanic Mendicants — (Angus MacSpon)

Ursula K. LeGuin

• The Left Hand of Darkness
  • On the Other Hand, It’s Dark — (Joe Slater)

Fritz Leiber

• Our Lady of Darkness
  • Our Goth Chick — (Samuel Paik)
  • Our Lady of the Density — (Babelfish, English/German/English)

Jonathan Lethem

• Gun, with Occasional Music
  • Pistols, Sometimes With Songs — (Mark Hughes)

H. P. Lovecraft

• At the Mountains of Madness
  • Adjacent To The Conspicuous Vertically Projecting Landmasses Of Alienation, Derangement, and Aberration — (Jonathan W Hendry)

George R.R. Martin

• Dying of the Light
  • Switching off the Lamp — (Jo Walton)
• Tuf Voyaging
  • Difficult Journey — (Andrew Plotkin)

Julian May

• The Many-Coloured Land
  • Kaleidoscopic Countrysides — (Angus MacSpon)

Ian McDonald

• Terminal Cafe
  • Cybercafe — (Mark Hughes)

Robin McKinley

• Beauty
  • Attractiveness — (Jo Walton)

Larry Niven

• Inconstant Moon
  • Incontinent Moon — (Steve Patterson)
• Ringworld
  • Call the Earth — (Angus MacSpon)
  • Circular Planet — (Lance Purple)
  • Planet of Jewellery! — (Joe Slater)
• The Integral Trees
  • Riemann Sum Arboretum — (Jeff Suzuki)

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

• The Mote in God’s Eye
  • &ldquoI’ve Got Something In My Eye”, Cried God! — (Mark Hughes)
• The Gripping Hand
  • The Hand That Holds — (Mark Hughes)
  • Enthralling the Hand — (Babelfish, English/French/English)

George Orwell

• 1984
  • MCMLXXXIV — (Jonathan W Hendry)

H. Beam Piper

• Little Fuzzy
  • Short Hairy People — (Lance Purple)
  • Slightly Furry — (Mark Hughes)
  • Rather Uncertain — (Andy Hatt)
• Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
  • Duke Calvin From Another Time — (Mark Hughes)

Frederik Pohl

• Gateway
  • Door — (Brent P. Newhall)
• Man Plus
  • Male Addition — (Keith Morrison)
• Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
  • Past the Sad Speed of Light Gravitational Boundary — (Keith Morrison)

Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth

• The Space Merchants
  • Buyers and Sellers of Emptiness — (Brent P. Newhall)

Terry Pratchett

• Interesting Times
  • Multiple Usurers — (Danny Sichel)

Christopher Priest

• Inverted World
  • pljoM — (Andrew Plotkin)

Spider Robinson

• Melancholy Elephants
  • Sad Pachyderms — (Steve Patterson)

Robert Silverberg

• Dying Inside
  • Gangrene — (Andrew Plotkin)
• Hawksbill Station
  • Waypoint for Birds’ Beaks — (Brent P. Newhall)

Norman Spinrad

• Bug Jack Barron
  • The Earl of Insect Cider — (John M. Gamble)
• The Void Captain’s Tale
  • The Negated Officer’s Rear — (John M. Gamble)
  • Vacuum the Tale of the Captain — (Babelfish, English/French/English)

Neil Stephenson

• The Diamond Age
  • Dating Diamonds — (Jo Walton)
• Snow Crash
  • Avalanche — (Danny Sichel)
  • A Wreck Caused by the Snow — (Lance Purple)
  • Cocaine Overdose — (Ernest Tomlinson)

Sheri S. Tepper

• Gibbon’s Decline and Fall
  • Ape’s Autumn Refusal — (Zara Bee)
• The Family Tree
  • Genealogy — (Thomas Yan)
• Raising the Stones
  • Grave Robbing — (Thomas Yan)
• Grass
  • Marijuana — (Thomas Yan)
  • Turf — (Zara Bee)

James Tiptree, Jr.

• Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
  • Literate Texas Cities — (John M. Gamble)

J. R. R. Tolkien

• Lord of the Rings
  • Master Campanologist — (Joe Slater)
  • The Ruler of the Jewelry — (Euan Troup)
  • Lord of the Loops — (Babelfish, English/French/English)

Jules Verne

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • 20,000 Underwater Professional Sport Associations — (Keith Morrison)

Vernor Vinge

• The Peace War
  • War and Peace — (Jo Walton)
• Marooned in Real Time
  • When Everyone Turned Purple — (Jo Walton)
• A Fire Upon the Deep
  • A Stove on the Water — (Joe Slater)

Lawrence Watt-Evans

• With a Single Spell
  • Universal Orthography — (Danny Sichel)

Walter Jon Williams

• City on Fire
  • Look out! The city is burning! — (Joe Slater)

Connie Willis

• To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • Let Us Not Talk About the Dog — (Joe Slater)
  • Don’t Mention the Dog — (Jo Walton)
  • Time Travellers in Victorian England — (Andrew Plotkin)

Roger Zelazny

• The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth
  • His Eyes are Open, and His Teeth Glow In the Dark — (Brenda W. Clough)
• Nine Princes in Amber
  • 9 Royal Siblings Preserved in Tree Sap — (Thomas Yan)
  • No Royalty is Well-Preserved (must have been the German translation) — (Andrew Plotkin)
  • Last Nine Amber Princes — (Babelfish, English/French/English)