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• Joan Slonczewski commented on Introducing: Joan Slonczewski
  Roboschro.monkey: Thanks, what's your class year? Feel free to get in touch at Kenyon....
• Joan Slonczewski commented on Introducing: Joan Slonczewski
  Bored Optometrist: A Door into Ocean was written in part as a response to Dune, and you'll find interesting parallels. I teach both books regularly in my course Biology in Science Fiction. BTW, how can an optometrist be bored? Every year at my checkup, I see more new toys in there....
• Joan Slonczewski commented on Introducing: Joan Slonczewski
  Robert Horley: Thanks for mentioning the problem getting books in Australia. Have you tried Nook and Smashwords? Can you send me documentation that it's unavailable anywhere? Since you're the first to bring it up, I'll send you a free copy for your trouble....
• Moderator Alan commented on Introducing: Joan Slonczewski
  Hmm, I'd have got it half right, guessing 'Slon-chevski'. But seeing how even French names get mangled (St Louis, Notre Dame, anybody?), I'm going to assume that America follows the proud and ancient British tradition of repronouncing names in the most convenient manner (Paris being the canonical example for the British). Having a surname whose pronunciation few people get correct without prior education[*], I can understand your predecessors not wasting all their time trying to correct their new fellows. *It doesn't help that there is a city of the same name up near Vancouver which has the 'wrong' pronunciation....
• Moderator Alan commented on Introducing: Joan Slonczewski
  The same way we Brits pronounce centre as 'cent-err'. Natural languages are mostly total hacks, and expecting either logic or consistency will lead only to disappointment....