{"id":736,"date":"2020-01-03T19:52:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T09:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2020-01-03T19:52:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T09:52:58","slug":"mariner-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/03\/mariner-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariner Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My translated story &#8216;Joseph Olenin&#8217;s Coat&#8217; has been selected for a Mariner Award by the editors of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bewilderingstories.com\/anthologies\/AR19.html\"><em>Bewildering Stories<\/em><\/a>. The Mariner Awards are named after one of the first successful interplanetary missions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-740\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/03\/mariner-award\/mariner_2_launch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-740\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-740\" src=\"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Mariner_2_launch-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Mariner_2_launch-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Mariner_2_launch.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariner 2 launch to Venus, August 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I like the contrast between the spacecraft shooting powerfully up into the atmosphere, and the powerful troika in the 1886 illustration from the original story, &#8216;Le Manteau de Joseph Ol\u00e9nine&#8217;, by the artist J. Chelmonski.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise message I received from the Managing Editor, Don Webb, says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You are among the 24 authors represented in the 2019 Mariner Awards. Also called &#8220;The Annual Review&#8221; by long tradition, the Mariner Awards are Bewildering Stories&#8217; most signal honor.<br class=\"\" \/>The titles listed are the ones that the Review Editors have rated most highly in the past year, ones we would recommend &#8212; for one reason or another &#8212; not only to friends or relatives but to\u00a0everyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel very honoured and really very pleased that someone else likes this story as much as I do. Encouragement is always welcome, especially when my translation career is predicted to be as successful as a flight to Venus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My translated story &#8216;Joseph Olenin&#8217;s Coat&#8217; has been selected for a Mariner Award by the editors of Bewildering Stories. The Mariner Awards are named after one of the first successful interplanetary missions. I like the contrast between the spacecraft shooting powerfully up into the atmosphere, and the powerful troika in the 1886 illustration from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/03\/mariner-award\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mariner Award<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[78,48,55,47,56,57,46,53,51],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-translations","tag-bewildering-stories","tag-eugene-melchior-de-vogue","tag-french-authors","tag-french-literature","tag-joseph-olenins-coat","tag-le-manteau-de-joseph-olenine","tag-literary-translation","tag-literature","tag-translation","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriciaworthtranslator.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}