Novel pick-up requests

Cynigami

@sparhawk6 Yeah, One Peace Books has overall a good translation speed. I am hoping they will pick up more titles. I have sent them a few title requests before but haven't gotten any answer yet :(

DasLeswile

@Sam-Pinansky now I'm curious. Higgs, Skyrmions, gravitational waves or something completely different?

Btw. I would like to see Honzuki no Gekokujou (Ascendance of a bookworm) but I'm not even sure if there is a light novel or if it is just a WN.

Sam Pinansky

@DasLeswile I am a string theorist actually.
You can find some of my research papers on the arxiv if you're curious. My main research was into quiver gauge theories and their relationships to algebraic geometry however.

As for Honzuki... Yes there is an LN, it's extremely popular in Japan and it's definitely on my radar. I'm holding off on it for now.

Cynigami

@Sam-Pinansky Wait. Is it possible that your research has some clue regarding the "Fractal?" title pickup?

Sam Pinansky

@Hakomari No I didn't do research into eternal inflation myself.

ImIlyaz

@Sam-Pinansky Lol I'd imagine some people actually agreeing with you licensing their LNs because of all that physicist degree stuff you just mentioned.

Liz

@Sam-Pinansky said in Novel pick-up requests:

I'm a phd'd theoretical physicist with a triple degree from Carnegie Mellon and perfect SAT scores and I decided to become an anime translator.

By sheer coincidence, this also just happens to be the light novel title I was going to request...

Sam Pinansky

@Liz My autobiography is not for sale. Wait... does that mean my harem is my group of translators?

Now things just got awkward.

sparhawk6

@Sam-Pinansky That sounds really weird :D

Sean McCann

@Sam-Pinansky I always KNEW I was the idiot friend in someone else's harem anime... :p

Cole Seeley

@Liz Please! Translate that one! Thats a must read.

Liz

@Cole-Seeley I wrote up a brief piece recasting Sam as Ichiro from VRMMO, but... it's the middle of the night over in Japan, I don't want to make him mad right before bed ;)

Terrence

@Liz "Nonsense". Out with it.

=P

Liz

@Terrence If I feel like it. :smirk:

Cole Seeley

@Liz /coughs

Sam Pinansky

@Liz Now I know I can be insensitive when it comes to other people's feelings but I totally do NOT like bugs.

See, I'm nothing like him.

Malloc

@Sam-Pinansky While I don't know you personally, you appear to not be like Ichiro at all to me. At least in a good way.

Rahul Balaggan

Aires's Death Book from Overlap Bunko

Sam Pinansky

@Rahul-Balaggan May I ask why you say that one? It was just published yesterday and is from a brand new author (won the "Special Prize" in this year's overlap light novel competition).

It looked interesting to me as well but I haven't had a chance to actually read it, have you?

Rahul Balaggan

@Sam-Pinansky I have not read the book, I will say that the synopsis was intriguing, murder mystery is my favorite genre. The prospect of collecting books of the dead to reproduce past events, I felt that would play very well when introduced inside a murder mystery novel.

Beyond the interesting summary I am a reader that judges every book by its cover.

I have been reading for long enough that when I say I like the cover I will like the book and vice versa.

So for the most part it's just a gut feeling that this will be a good light novel.

Another title that struck me to be good is The Witch and I
Which is also fairly recent.