No science this time, just a quick update.
My book ’Wildlife on the planet Furaha’ appeared in the UK on 3 December, 2025. People in the USA could order it from the UK, but they won’t have to any more: The Book will be available directly in the USA as of the 28th of July, or next Tuesday. If you are interested, go pester your local bookshop to get it for you. It’s worth it, I promise!
That opinion is shared by Matt Wedel, one of the authors of the famous blog ‘Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week’. Matt just published a very positive review of my book, right here.
Finally, I will be at DinoCon in the UK with a limited number of copies of the book (books are heavy!). If you want one, or a nice print, visit stand 66. I am sharing that stand with CM Kosemen, known for ‘All tomorrows’ and ‘Snaiad’. If you think that two Speculative Biology planets aren’t enough, come find out about the ‘Syndicate of Planetary Biology Societies’ (also starring Dougal Dixon…).
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"By your powers combined..."
surely no publisher can resist *now*!
ps: congrats! on the company you're keeping there, and on the expansion of The Book's availability.
Thank you so much for this blog and the Book, I am excited ever since I found them through the review by Biblaridion, whom I discovered as a creator of constructed languages; and I keep reading old posts whenever I have time.
I wanted to ask about some minor detail from the Book: You briefly mention neolatin; How should I imagine that, is it just a modern form of latin with a slightly simplified grammar and reformed orthography or more evolved? Judging from the binomial name of the phleph, Pigritia sursumvergenspropterpenuriaponderis, it seems clear that the grammar must have changed compared to classical latin, where 'propter' governs the accusative, yielding sursumvergenspropterpenuriamponderis, with m; this cannot be a sound change since in sursum, the m is retained. (Or was this an error on the side of Ottokar P. Uytterwaerde?) Similarly, in the old post "Why there is no 'walking with tentacles'... (3)", the full name of the CGC is corpus gelatinosus centralis instead of corpus gelatinosum centrale, so corpus must have shifted from neuter to masculine...
Please don't misunderstand me, I am absolutely aware that those are details that could as well just be typos, I was just wondering...
Anonymous: Thank you for liking my work! You caught me there on linguistic matters! The binomen names are not supposed to be in neolatin but in classical Latin, or at least the kind of Latin used by biological nomenclature committees. I learned classical Latin in school, but apparently, or, well, obviously, now that you point it out, my ability to use it deteriorated over the subsequent decades.
I have just corrected the 'centralis' to 'centrale' in that old post. As for the phleph, I had forgotten that 'propter' should be followed by an accusative... I can either correct that mistake in the next print run of The Book, or I can indeed pretend that the mistake was made 'in universe'. If the Furahan nomenclature system follows current Earth zoological rules, the error cannot be corrected and remains fixed in Furahan scientific nomenclature. If you find more such errors, please let me know!
Sorry for my late answer... I appreciate how quickly and openly you reacted to my nitpicking. Personally I think the mistake having been made 'in unsiverse' could be really funny, but maybe squeezing this anecdote in could be clumsy...
Anonymous: I will think a bit more about how to incorporate the correction, but i suspect the publisher will not like to do the layout again. Just adding the letter 'm' is much easier.
That's what I thought...
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