Uglies in Complex Chinese

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It’s a slow day on tour today, waiting for next Tuesday, the all-important release date of Extras. So I thought I’d show you one more cover that came in last week.

It’s the complex Chinese version of Uglies! (My recent post about translation was for the CC version of Pretties.) I really like this cover. It’s slick and jazzy, but also dark, which can be a tricky combination to pull off.

Here’s the publisher’s site, for those of you who can read traditional Chinese.

Sorry this was so quick, but my internets are running out!

More tomorrow from the road.

77 thoughts on “Uglies in Complex Chinese”

  3. Umm, I think he explained the difference in the CC Pretties post.
    That is quite dark actually, makes me think ICY.

  8. whoa… creepy making! but i like it. its kinda like the german uglies cover (with the lines on the girls face) except creepier. u sound bored scott. dont u hav some coolio writers conference to go to or something?? if u hav nothing better to do u should go over to ikea. that place is so cool. or u could come visit me!… or not. im sure ur not that bored. hey zpoe scott explains the difference between complex and simple chinese here:
    http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/?p=254
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  10. Wow, that’s amazing. I can’t wait for Extras! I went to the book store the other day. They said they had it but won’t give it to me till Tuesday. =( guess I’ll have to wait.

  13. lol, I’m been waiting for it since I knew there was going to be “Extras” Beside, I only went because my friend told me there was some in the other store.

  14. oooooooooo okay. sorry. ya scott said that a few copies of Extras have been leaking out into the world. so guy named Gil got his hands on one (he even has pictures 😮 ).

  19. man, I wish I could read complex chinese. lol it would be interesting to read books in different languages to see if they’re any different, ya know?

    oh ya, and I got my shirt from insideadog.com today. thanks so much scott! for the shirt and the first 3 chapters of extras (which I will never tell my friends until the book comes out lol)
    =] thanx again.

  20. That’s so cool. I think it’s really interesting the way one book can have so many different covers…
    Just out of curiousity, Scott, do you get a copy of all your foreign books? And…how many can you read? 🙂

    I went into a local bookstore today because I was all excited that maybe it would have Extras since Scott said some copies had gotten out, but I asked a bookstore guy, and he was like, “No, it doesn’t come out until Tuesday,” and I was like, “I KNOW!!” And then he told me that three other people had already asked him if they had it out yet.

  24. Wow, I’ve never seen anything like that before. But I really like it!

    AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *takes breath* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
    I GOT MY SHIRT TODAY IN THE MAIL!!!

    THankyou thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you thank you!!! I LUV IT SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooo much!!! Thanks a trillion. No, a quaaderhoadskjbillion!!! (I don’t know how many zeros come after than number) I loved everything that came with the shirt too!! Thanks!!

    Wow, I really looked…how would you put it…crazy there didn’t I?

    Kadie-Wa

  26. Great. I feel bad now. The thing lookes really weird now. I hope no one notices it that much…but owell, Scott said he would try to post tomorrow. (I think) and then my odd post will be all gone.

    Kadie-Wa

    P.S. Sorry for the triple post.

  27. grrr!!!! i want a leaked copy!!!! maybe i’ll make my mom take me to schuler’s tomorrow to see if they might have any leakies lying around… don’t know if i’ll have enough money for one, though.

  28. Gil, i hate you. not really, but arrrrgggh!!!!
    u are so lucky.

    and i like the cover. it’s all shattered-y

    why are all the numbers and stuff messed up? odd.

    I CAN’T WAIT FOR EXTRAS!!!!!!!!!!
    ugh, more days!!! and tuesdays are the suckiest day for me, that’s the only time i ever have anything to do!
    but EXTRAS!!!

  32. I was just reading the questions about the different types of Chinese and thought you might be interested(:

    complex chinese is actually sort of the “older” version of simple chinese, which was created to make it easier to learn, as Scott explained in his post.

    I don’t know if you’ll be able to see the chinese characters on your computers but I’ll try.

    é—´ is in simple chinese, but é–“ is actually the same word in complex chinese!(both are read as “jian”) Both simple and complex chinese act as the same language, but look different!
    A lot of Japanese kanji characters are also in the form of complex Chinese characters, but are read using Japanese phonetics. (The word “jian” above, in japanese, would be read as “a-i-da”

    Well, that was long-winded. But I hope you found it interesting!

  35. Very Creepy but Extra Awesome. See that’s what is so fun about your books…The covers can be interpreted in so many ways and it’s almost impossible to figure out which one is best because they all look cool!

    By the way I finished So Yesterday yesterday! (Had to check it out of the library because I gave up on the bookstore having a good copy) I LOVED it…like all of your books 😀 But unlike all of your other books, this one wasn’t totally fantasy and it’s something we can actually imagine happening.

    I am sad now though. I need more Scott books to read =( I think I might go on a mission to find the Risen Empire and Killing of Worlds again. Though it is pretty hard to find them unless you buy them used =(

  36. Yes, I got pins in my pacage too. They are really fool. I LUV them. And it’s weird too, bc I collect buttons / pins and put them on my back pack. it fits in well with the others.

    Kadie-Wa
    so many people are using signatures now.

  39. that is one hott cover, scott.

    only 2 days till i can get it..!! *squees* im about to die of excitement..but i still stick to the theory that in a series, the first book is almost always the best. Except like in really wierd exceptions (like harry potter) where the boooks just keep getting better as time goes on.

    lotsalove
    lily_wa

  41. waiting like this is totally testing my patients… at least 3 ppl from this site are going to see scott in mequon (including me) which is totally awesome!!! and in a way the new uglies cover is slightly creepy with all teh shattery like pieces cool though

  42. FOOL! EVERYBODIES FOOL NOW! sign sign sign. sign sign sign. i like the lotsalove thingy. and ya no Amy-la, isnt it kinda…bad to be a pretty minded Ugly? hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm…

    by the way…HOW DO YOU DO THE COOL SMILEY?!?!?!?!

    by the way(again)…its Scott-la, not Scott-wa. you only use -wa if theres an l nearish the middle or end. or beginning.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 😛

  45. That is one AMAZING cover! I’m kind of curious, though- why do foreign covers still have Caucasian people on the covers? The way I phrased it sounds a bit off, but I mean, if it’s for release in China (I’d assume) then why do they have a blond model? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have a Chinese one? Unless she’s like Kaye from Tithe…In the being Asian and blond I mean. That made no sense, sorry!

    Anyways, those who’ve gotten your shirts- where-ish are you from? It was stupid of me to enter a contest on an Australian website when I live in the US, but are any of you guys over here too? I’m so excited over the book that I’ve started wondering when exactly to expect the shirt, and hoping (in vain, I’m sure) that it will just happen to show up here by Tuesday.

    Speaking of which, who knew that September only has 30 days?

    Didn’t someone just explain the smiley as, like, 8 D or something? SO it would look like 8D. Or maybe I just look like an idiot when no smiley shows up, but w/e. 😀

  47. yeah sorry. figured it out on last post. hehe. THANKS BRI-LA! 8) 8) 8)

    oh yeah. im cool.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! 8)

  48. Bethany, I’m from the US, and I got it yesterday.

    By the way, Scott. I went shopping with my mom yesterday, and everyone was reading my shirt. One girl came up to me and said “oh my gosh, the Extras come out soon dno’t they?!?!” And i walked off all proud. It was SOOOo cool

    Kadie-Wa

  49. ooohh i like it. Just a question, are you using hotel Internet? Jeez, if you are i feel very sorry for you. Slow and Expensive.

  52. oooooooo i like the cover

    i honestly think im going to cry when i go to get it on tuesday. My mom will probably tell me to get over it since its just a book but you know what I DONT CARE Uglies trilogy has become my life =)

  54. i just searched every bookstore in the tri-county area, no leaked copies to be found. *sad*

    and i’m on here waaaay too much too.
    which is gonna make it hard, because i’ve vowed not to go on at all from like, monday evening to whenever i finish extras.
    yeah, i’m a ttly fast reader, but i have a feeling my amazon copy won’t come til wensday. and i’m a big no-spoilers/making urself insane person. i’m insane enough without anyone’s help.

    CAN’T WAIT 4 EXTRAS!!!!!!!

  55. No leaked copies here. *sob*

    I love that cover! Very icy.

    I think I’ll just get Extras at Borders since I’m too lazy to preorder.

  57. i preordered months ago. because i’m a loser.
    a loser who has already preordered city of ashes. 174 days!

  63. i love this cover! i can’t wait to get extras, im reading specials right now. Once EXTRAS is going to come out i;m going to run the Barnes & Nobles to get it 😀 i hope you write more books like the Uglies triolgy. I love it. You inspire me so much.

  64. he he i was rereading uglies and you know how they double one side of thier face well i tryed that with one photo have both sides double and flipped into one face… you can look WAY different then you would think (ya i was kinda bored)

  68. argh, i can’t wait!!!! i’m messing with the preorder right now so i can get both extras and midnight alley in the same package. how awesome will that be? like, double awesome!
    *screams in joy b/c so many books and heroes is on tommorrow too*

  70. im sad. 🙁

    i just went to BORDERS in seattle with $30 in my pocket. i jumped out of the car so my dad cood go park the car, and walked into BORDERS. i looked for about 2 minutes. looked in my jeen pocket for the money, and found it missing. i checked all pockets, walked all the way back to the corner wear he dropped my off, and checked again. no where.

    i blame my little brother and sister. they werent supposed to get out of the car, but they did anyway. the money probably fell onto the seat, but when my brother and sister got out, they scooched all across the seat, probably pushing the $20 and $10 dollar bills into the street, where somebody found it and picked it up.

    its so not funny. i already owe my mom $20. i just lost my last $30. and with the books i just bot, i now owe her $40.

    i need some chocolat. 🙁

    im not even happy enough to put a exclamation point on my signiture.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT. 🙁

  71. i love heroes! woo! lizards!
    that’s the name of the episode for the folk who don’t read heroeswiki as obsessively as i do. and i wonder why i’m sleep-deprived…

  72. *sympathy* luckily my mom understands book-buying. otherwise i’d always be broke cuz i’m too lazy to get a job.

  75. Really spooky-making. Its like not even real. Kind of hard to see but im farsighted..so you know. Very dark, indepth of how the surgery transforms every aspect of what you look like. Almost down to your very smallest details, the one’s you don’t even notice. I like the way that some of the parts of the face are magnetized to show the intrecet parts of the persons face. but yes, i’d have to agree…
    spooky-making.

  76. SO franticly waiting to read extras. the best books iv’e ever read are the uglies pretties and specials series!!!!!! now theres a new brance! YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate having to wait for it at our local library and i think im just going to buy it.

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