Earlier today John Joseph Adams tweeted about The Windup Girl being featured in the io9 book club. I re-tweeted this, because it is a good book and I’d like to see people able to read it (it is only out in hardback right now). JJA also happened to say that the book was the “SF novel of the year”.
Anyway, people are kindly re-tweeting this information around, and some of them are stripping out the other attributions and just leaving me. So now it is me that is apparently saying that The Windup Girl is the “SF novel of the year.” And you know, it might be, but there will be four other books on my Hugo ballot as well. Twitter, however, has me quoted.
I don’t really mind this too much, but such things can be a problem. Not so long ago I said something fairly innocuous on Twitter and found it being RT’d, subtly altered, by a bunch of Islamophobes. So if you see someone being quoted on Twitter, try to check out the original tweet.
That _is_ a problem. When the tweet is long and/or there are several retweet steps between the original and you, it can be daunting. Even just retweeting a long tweet can be an interesting course in editing.
I wish the default on a retweet was just to repost the original. It would make more sense. Sometimes I see something from someone I’m not following retweeted – and I would like to give the credit to the originator.
Oh come on. Go ahead and say it. It’s the SF novel of the year. 😉
Thanks for helping get the word out about this promotion.
It’s the 21st Century equilvalent of Chinese Whispers… 😉
Just remember what the root word of Twitter is, Cheryl. Always something to keep in mind.
Yes, very funny. Now do you have something worthwhile to say or did you just come here to insult me?