Lost in the Translation

Isaac Asimov

• Basement trilogy — (Andrew Plotkin)
• Basement — (Jay Random)
• Colonial Basement — (Jay Random)
• Sub-Basement — (Jay Random)
• Basement Wall — (Jay Random)
• Basement And Subsoil — (Jay Random)
• Excavation — (Jay Random)
• Towards The Front Of The Basement — (Jay Random)
• That’s me: Mr Robot — (Joe Slater)

Iain M. Banks

• In Relief — (Zara Bee)
• Skairy Mowter — (Paul Clarke)

John Barnes

• The Single Columbine — (Jo Walton)

Alfred Bester

• The Man who was Killed — (Lance Purple)

Ray Bradbury

• Approximately 218.5555 Celsius — (Brent P. Newhall)

David Brin

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

John Brunner

• The Tanzanian Easel — (Danny Sichel)

Algis Budrys

• Rascal Displays his Buttocks — (Andy Hatt)

Lois McMaster Bujold

• Fragments of Repute — (Robert A. Woodward)
• Weightless — (Robert A. Woodward)

Orson Scott Card

• Medium — (Zara Bee)

Raphael Carter

• The Lucky Season Before Winter — (Thomas Yan)

C. J. Cherryh

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

Arthur C. Clarke

• Puberty — (Andrew Plotkin)
• Music From Remote Ground — (Mark Hughes)

Hal Clement

• A Very Important Mission — (JohnnyPez9)

Pamela Dean

• The Covered Ground — (Thomas Yan)
• The Lizard’s Fancy — (Thomas Yan)
• Dunno About Those Mountains — (Thomas Yan)
• The Place That Isn’t Supposed to be Talked About — (Thomas Yan)

Samuel R. Delany

• The Famous People I Control Enjoy the Beach — (Timothy J. Gawne)

Stephen Donaldson

• Jam-Making Energy — (Mark Hughes)

Debra Doyle and James D. MacDonald

• Huge Salaries — (Samuel Paik)

Umberto Eco

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

Greg Egan

• Completely Basic — (Gareth Wilson)
• Misery — (Mark Hughes)
• Yict — (Andrew Plotkin)

Harlan Ellison

• “Seek Forgiveness for your Sins, Clown,” ordered the Clockmaker — (Keith Morrison)
• 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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

• The Alien at Home — (David Given)
• Foreigner Not in his Homeland — (Brent P. Newhall)
• Bondage Girl on the Moon — (Andrew Plotkin)
• Lead Animal — (David Given)
• Westward Boating — (David Given)

Frank Herbert

• A Pile of Sand — (Euan Troup)

James P. Hogan

• Featuring The Acromegalics — (Danny Sichel)

Norton Juster

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

Stephen King

• Stuff You Must Have — (Mark Hughes)
• Distress — (Mark Hughes)

Nancy Kress

• Hispanic Mendicants — (Angus MacSpon)

Ursula K. LeGuin

• On the Other Hand, It’s Dark — (Joe Slater)

Fritz Leiber

• Our Goth Chick — (Samuel Paik)

Jonathan Lethem

• Pistols, Sometimes With Songs — (Mark Hughes)

H. P. Lovecraft

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

George R.R. Martin

• Switching off the Lamp — (Jo Walton)
• Difficult Journey — (Andrew Plotkin)

Julian May

• Kaleidoscopic Countrysides — (Angus MacSpon)

Ian McDonald

• Cybercafe — (Mark Hughes)

Robin McKinley

• Attractiveness — (Jo Walton)

Larry Niven

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

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

• “I’ve Got Something In My Eye”, Cried God! — (Mark Hughes)
• The Hand That Holds — (Mark Hughes)

George Orwell

• MCMLXXXIV — (Jonathan W Hendry)

H. Beam Piper

• Short Hairy People — (Lance Purple)
• Slightly Furry — (Mark Hughes)
• Rather Uncertain — (Andy Hatt)
• Duke Calvin From Another Time — (Mark Hughes)

Frederik Pohl

• Door — (Brent P. Newhall)
• Male Addition — (Keith Morrison)
• Past the Sad Speed of Light Gravitational Boundary — (Keith Morrison)

Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth

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

Terry Pratchett

• Multiple Usurers — (Danny Sichel)

Christopher Priest

• pljoM — (Andrew Plotkin)

Spider Robinson

• Sad Pachyderms — (Steve Patterson)

Robert Silverberg

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

Norman Spinrad

• The Earl of Insect Cider — (John M. Gamble)
• The Negated Officer’s Rear — (John M. Gamble)

Neil Stephenson

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

Sheri S. Tepper

• Ape’s Autumn Refusal — (Zara Bee)
• Genealogy — (Thomas Yan)
• Grave Robbing — (Thomas Yan)
• Marijuana — (Thomas Yan)
• Turf — (Zara Bee)

James Tiptree, Jr.

• Literate Texas Cities — (John M. Gamble)

J. R. R. Tolkien

• Master Campanologist — (Joe Slater)
• The Ruler of the Jewelry — (Euan Troup)

Jules Verne

• 20,000 Underwater Professional Sport Associations — (Keith Morrison)

Vernor Vinge

• War and Peace — (Jo Walton)
• When Everyone Turned Purple — (Jo Walton)
• A Stove on the Water — (Joe Slater)

Lawrence Watt-Evans

• Universal Orthography — (Danny Sichel)

Walter Jon Williams

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

Connie Willis

• 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

• His Eyes are Open, and His Teeth Glow In the Dark — (Brenda W. Clough)
• 9 Royal Siblings Preserved in Tree Sap — (Thomas Yan)
• No Royalty is Well-Preserved (must have been the German translation) — (Andrew Plotkin)