Year of the Dragon Hobb Give-Away

[fool-ish]

I'm pretty certain that The 'useless U' is missing from all the UK editions of books by American authors that I own anyway. And any extra bits such as the list of dragons/keepers that you mentioned would be nice, but not wholly necessary I don't suppose. Maps..well I don't tend to go there very often, I'm really quite useless where they are concerned. The only downside I can think of really is the cost of shipping.

On my re-read of ASoIAF, I've noticed 'grey' as opposed to 'gray' which seems a little odd as everything else is spelled the American way. Maybe that was GRRM's nod (the only one allowed!) to the UK readers!

[joost]

YI did also learn from the Newsgroup recently that apparently the maps differ between the UK and US versions as well, so I will be interested to see what the differences are

The Dutch translation didn't have any maps in them. I don't know if this is normal for the translations (I never looked inside the other Dutch books) or if the maps aren't there in the original either.

EDIT: Oh, silly me. Just checked the British editions of the first two books and there are no maps in them either, so the maps probably aren't in the UK version of CoD/BoD either.

['thul]

fantasy books without any maps, or with bad maps, tend to be somewhat horrible. Suddenly you have a thousand missing leagues of distance between two points.
of course, though not detailed rain wilds-wise, there are maps for the RotE, and they are fairly stable scale-wise.

[Farseer]

Yes, it's for a US copy, fool-ish.

As for the differences, it's mainly just the spelling choices (here we go with the useless 'u' thing again! ) as far as I can tell. I did also learn from the Newsgroup recently that apparently the maps differ between the UK and US versions as well, so I will be interested to see what the differences are as I'm not waiting until April for the UK version...

Erk! Sorry. My post was so misleading that I misled myself halfway through!

Yes, the UK and US maps do differ (in the rest of the RotE books) but, as joost pointed out, the UK versions of DK and DH don't have maps in them so it's doubtful CoD or BoD will have them either!

It's possible that this is because a map was quite useless at that point anyway, unless you are new to RotE as *RWC spoilers*

Spoiler

the idea is that neither the dragons nor the keepers really know the direction that they're going in anyway. If there was a map, at least in DK and DH, Kelsingra would not be on it as that would be a major plot spoiler. As I have said somewhere else (sorry to be repeating myself like an echo from the past), the scene of the realm as we and the characters know it, and have known it in ages past, is changing...finally blending the old with the new. What we once thought was simply Trehaug is actually also Frengong and so on. Like each character's perspective on history, their geographical perspective is changing also.

We all have to struggle together. I love it!

['thul]

true. Having maps in DK/DH would have been wrong. These beings noticed such a thing in another book series (earth's children) where they had maps... It was somewhat boring to see where the characters would be going in the book. In future electronic books, it'd be nice to have maps that are adaptive, changing by how far the reader has come in the book. of course, such would still be impractical in papery books, unless they find a simple way to make cheap electronic ink paper to stick into the back of a book.

[Farseer]

So, did any of you win? If you did, you'll need to send an email (see link) to claim your prize.

[Valarya]

So, did any of you win? If you did, you'll need to send an email (see link) to claim your prize.

Nope.

['thul]

unfortunately and expectedly, no.

[finella]

me neither .