It's publication day for The Blue Machine in the US and Canada. Same book, with a different subtitle and miles in some places instead of km (but still mostly SI units, yay!).
If you're an ocean scientist and your family don't understand what you do and why, this might help.
"I love Helen Czerski’s writing, and this is her richest work yet—as clear as springwater, yet as filled with fascinating things as the ocean itself."- Sarah Bakewell
@helenczerski Thank you for narrating the audiobook version yourself (which narration, BTW, is really terrific). I’m blind and so doomed to use audiobooks, and I find that too often scientists farm out audio narration to people who clearly don’t understand what they’re reading, which makes listening difficult/painful. So thanks for taking the time to do it yourself. #Ocean#BlueMachine#Books#Audiobooks#Bookstodon
@JerrDansel Authors don’t really get any say in who reads the audiobook. The publishers just arrange it, and if they ask us, we might say yes. Last time (Storm in a teacup) they never even asked me. There is a trend towards author reading, but not all writers are good readers.
@DoodlePeter US and Canadian versions are identical. The UK version is all SI units, but for the US version the horizontal distances are in miles and the rest is SI. That’s a huge step forward, though - last time they made me convert all distances.
@helenczerski Frustrating (for this Canadian) but I empathize, and revel your success. For our initial book series (3 decades ago 😳) I had hand-lettered the science cartoons (nothing digital back then), but at the publisher’s insistence had to re-letter to US spelling—and then the publisher made no effort to sell it to the US market. 🤦♂️
@helenczerski I suppose thats a fun/tedious calculation exercise if nothing else.
They've remained incredibly stubborn on it. Although all their units are based on SI now anyway aren't they.
E.g. one inch = 0.0254 m
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