Interesting that Jim.
I have actually written a novel, a bit of a thriller (loosely based on a
true story, action takes place in 5 countries on both sides of the
Atlantic). Not a whole lot of measurements in there, but all those that are
in there are of course metric.
Available on Kindle for anyone interested...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004GKNLRY
Cheers
John F-L
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Frysinger" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 4:45 PM
Subject: [USMA:50570] All-metric novel
I have just started reading the novel _Three Seconds_ by Anders Roslund and
Börge Hellström (2009), translated by Kari Dickson (2010); published by
Silver Oak (Sterling Publishing Co.) if New York. It's a story about an
attempt to establish a drug market in Sweden by some Polish "mafia".
(Amazingly, I can even understand some of the Polish dialog, through
cognates to Russian; but the book is otherwise all in English.)
The original Swedish text was undoubtedly all-metric but it's a pleasant
surprise to see that the translator did not convert any of the units of
measurement I've come across so far. Kilograms ("kilo"), liters,
kilometers, meters, and (Pat Naughtin's favorite) centimeters abound.
(Sorry, Pat, I haven't encountered a millimeter yet, but one might pop up
later on.)
This book just arrived at a library we frequent in a neighboring county
and my wife plucked it off the New Books shelf. So, if you want to cozy up
to an all-metric thriller, look for this one!
Jim
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