Cryoburn

[snarp]

1. Bujold does not know how Japanese names and honorifics work. This is very jarring, because I do know.

2. I don't think that crisis midway through actually made sense. I feel like all Miles' research would have turned up some photographs at some point.

3. That was an EXTREMELY sudden romance.

4. AGH VERY LAST SENTENCE

Comments

[holyschist]

1. Somehow I am...not surprised. *sigh*

[snarp]

She did a little research, but she absolutely had to stick honorifics in there, she really should've tried to watch a Japanese film subbed and listened for them, or something.

And there was some costume abuse in there, too. I'm trying to imagine somebody wearing a haori with a short skirt, leggings, and a tight shirt, and the image is just painful. It's something a very confused American might do - though I would hope a tenuous allegiance to aesthetics would prevent such dreadful behavior - but I can't imagine a Japanese person doing it. Unless there was like, a fire alarm, and she couldn't find her coat.

[holyschist]

I imagine the excuse is "it's the future!" (I was kind of baffled by the quaddies wearing essentially Elizabethan clothes...of all the things to wear in zero-G, WHY? And fashion resurrections don't work like that).

Have you read Scott Westerfeld's Extras, by any chance? His future Japan didn't feel right to me, but I couldn't put my finger on why. The explanations for some of the choices he made in Bogus to Bubbly didn't really assuage my bafflement.