Comments on: Cielos Reflejados

By: David J. Williams

David J. Williams — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:23:40 +0000

@Polter: am not sure, will try and find out. It IS bad-ass, isn’t it?

@Dany: am honored to have the book’s translator join us. : ) And yeah, it’s funny, I’d thought that having the same word in both titles would be a problem, but now that you put it that way, it would actually be pretty cool.

By: Polter

Polter — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:10:40 +0000

Thanks Brian!

– hey David – that cover art rules – who did that for you?

By: Dany

Dany — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:32:22 +0000

Well, I think I have a few words to say here

Cielos it’s the plural for heavens, but in its “celestial” form. The common word is

You refer a few times to the “skies” during the novel as something more than light reflected and gases… That’s why (I think ;D ) they chose this form

What about “Cielos Incinerados” ? That way, the title will follow a “Cielos” link between both novels, and the public will recognise it as a sequel…

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:53:32 +0000

@Polter, right click the art and open it in a new window. It’s pretty big. http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/cielosreflejados-compl-lr.jpg

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:31:21 +0000

Cielos Reflejados is roughly translated “Reflected Heavens” Mirrored doesn’t really translate well, could have been translated like “Espejismos en los Cielos” but that’s more like “Mirages in Heaven” I don’t know if it’s really a good translation. In Spanish we used the same word for sky and heaven, Cielo. I agree with cYbErDaRk, burning skies would be translated as “Cielos Quemados” although “Cielos Inflamables” literally “Flammable Skies” sounds much cooler….

By: Polter

Polter — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:44:14 +0000

Wow – who did the cover art? Can you get a bigger file of it?

By: John C

John C — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:45:27 +0000

Spoke to my mom, Meesh is correct.
John

By: cYbErDaRk

cYbErDaRk — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:54:45 +0000

You ‘re right meesh.

“Burning Skies” could be transleted as “Quemando Cielos”, “Quemando los Cielos”, “Cielos Quemando”, “Cielos que Queman”, “Cielos Inflamables”… though my English is not quite good

Regards.

By: meesh

meesh — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:17:59 +0000

cielo is sky from my spanish training.
there isn’t a spanish word for heaven so cielo is also used as heaven.
so either people will read it as the mirrored sky or the mirrored heavens….

but that’s just what i think and from what i know in my cerebro