{"id":281,"date":"2016-03-24T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2016-04-22T13:11:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T13:11:33","slug":"the-galaktika-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-galaktika-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Galaktika controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A surprising magazine cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>  
\nI kicked a hornet’s nest a week or two ago. Galaktika<\/em> is a Hungarian SFF magazine, highly regarded there, with a substantial print circulation. Don’t feel uninformed; I’d never heard of it either until it showed up in a Google search on my name (vanity, vanity; yes, I know). Turns out, they’d translated and published my story, “Sinseerly A Friend & Yr. Obed’t,” as “Tisztelltel szolg’, egy bar\u00e1t”\u00a0\u2014\u00a0without my involvement, permission, or even knowledge.<\/p>\n

Well, I emailed the publisher to complain (still no response after almost three weeks and multiple resends). I contacted another author whose name appears on the same cover\u00a0\u2014\u00a0his story had\u00a0also been pirated. I posted about it on an online writers group I belong to; other writers reported their experiences; and now a Hungarian journalist has weighed in<\/a>. The article is in Magyar, but there’s an English summary at the end.<\/p>\n

It’s a big mess, for sure. But I hope that, in the end, Galaktika<\/em> will reform\u00a0\u2014\u00a0although the comment from the editor-in-chief suggests that that may be unlikely. But I can still hope<\/em>, right?
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\nUPDATE 31 MARCH:<\/strong> The Hungarian Globe<\/a> website now has an English version of the original story, plus an update at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I kicked a hornet’s nest a week or two ago. Galaktika is a Hungarian SFF magazine, highly regarded there, with a substantial print circulation. Don’t feel uninformed; I’d never heard of it either until it showed up in a Google search on my name (vanity, vanity; yes, I know). Turns out, they’d translated and … Continue reading “The Galaktika controversy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-weaving-and-writhing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmwaldroon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}