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We’ve been lucky to have our book on the front page of bookshop Uk for the launch. Bookshop is a great way to support your local book shops during lockdown - th
by jonplackett 6y ago
We’ve been lucky to have our book on the front page of bookshop Uk for the launch. Bookshop is a great way to support your local book shops during lockdown - they need that now more than ever! They really are doing right by everyone.
If you’re interested, that’s our book there on the left (next to Obama!) - Gender Swapped Fairy Tales. I created an algorithm to swap the gender of any text and we applied it to all the most famous fairy tales - without rewriting anything. It’s then been really beautifully illustrated. It seems like such a simple change but that’s what makes it work - it really lays all the gender stereotypes bare. Some quite obvious but others are more subtle. You end up noticing a lot of stuff you didn’t with the gender the other way around. Interested in your thoughts if they read it!
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoVery interesting. I tried to do this at one point but manually and that didn't go far. Are there any samples available? I don't even see a table of contents on your website.
- jonplackett 6y agoYes I can see how doing it manually would be pretty painful! What did you try it with? If you have a look at the Amazon listing you can see the table of contents and read a bit of the first story with the 'look inside' feature. http://genderswappedstories.com/gender-swapped-fairy-tales-amazon-uk http://genderswappedstories.com/gender-swapped-fairy-tales-a... The first story is Handsome And The Beast, which is one of my favourites. Let me know what you notice after reading!
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoCory Doctorow's novels are licensed for non-commercial modifications. I tried one of those.