[ SECRET POST #5230 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5230 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

'Sure, hopefully by an Egyptian'

See this is a weird point to me. Ancient Egypt has as much relationship to modern Egypt as Celtic tribes do to America. Unless they're a scholar, they're as likely to get things wrong as any non-Egyptian. Plus just st because things are filtered through an author and publishing house that is strongly Muslim instead of Christian doesn't make it any better. Maybe more refreshing in the US, but no less a sanitisation of the culture.

[(Anonymous)]

And like, "Ancient Egypt" is a couple of thousand years of history and wasn't all one thing either.

But one could read non-American/UK SFF, which is becoming more accessible as publishers are picking up more international authors. There's even web-based magazines that do a great job at international and translated SFF. Strange Horizons just did a special on Palestinian authors, and it also hosts Samovar for translated SFF.

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(Cozy Werewolf Anon)

I wanted to go "hopefully by an egyptologist."

Because you're right, it is highly removed from today's Egyptian culture and there are a great many different ages of Egypt's history. And so if you have the proper research, the race of the author probably shouldn't matter.

At the same time, I don't like that assumption. And I also know, Tolkien being an exception, writing historical prose versus writing fiction is two very different skill sets. So, I'd be worried an Egyptologist would be too focused on the prose/fact aspects versus being focused on conveying a good story. It's journalism versus fiction. I get extremely wary due to experience if I see a journalist writing fiction or um, a journalist as an editor of fiction. YMMV this is only my experience.