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Now in addition to Jack Vance, I have permission to be translating Clifford D. Simak and Clark Ashton Smith. For Simak, I'll be translating the 1964 Hugo winner "Way Station", whose nearest title in Esperanto works out to "Statcidomo" (aka 'Station House'). Thanks to David Wixom and Open Road Media for allowing to me this effort, already at chapter 9 of 36. An artist has already volunteered to be doing the cover. Any who wish to participate with internal art will be made welcome. For Clark Ashton Smith, I have begun "Genius Loci" which is at 45% as of this writing. That title being in Latin, I'll just keep it the same. In the agreement I am

I translate Jack Vance stories into Esperanto as a hobby. These I distribute as e-books for free here: http://esperanto.us A student artist illustrated the first one, Threelegged Joe, for me some years ago. My son is having a go at The Moon Moth now. But there still remain two other translations without any illustrations at all. I bought the rights (Esperanto translation only) direct from the author by way of obtaining a life-time hobby. It doesn't go fast. There's a lot more work to it than at first I had imagined. But the effort is satisfying in the extreme. Alas, it pays nothing though. So I cannot hire the illustration work done as the t