Win a teapot set and vote for Star Gate in the WW Reader’s Choice awards!

Hello friends!

I hope the end of 2024 is shaping up well! It’s been a helluva year so far (SG made it onto the top 10 of the site, woot!) and let’s go out with a bang!

To celebrate all the tea-drinking moments in the series, I am gifting one lucky reviewer a beautiful porcelain teapot and a jug of tea leaves! šŸµāœØ Itā€™s the perfect way to enjoy your next reading session. (Water of Life not included, heh šŸ¤­). Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays one and all!

šŸ“… How to Enter:
1. Leave a review for Star Gate on Wuxiaworld!
2. Thatā€™s it! On December 1, I will randomly select one reviewer to receive this cozy gift!

šŸŽ Important: The winner will have 3 days to respond once announced. If not, a new winner will be chosen! Fingers crossed, this reaches you in time for the winter holidays.

Donā€™t miss your chanceā€”share your thoughts on Star Gate and you could be sipping tea in style this winter! ā„ļøā˜•

Also,Ā voting is open for Wuxiaworld’s Reader’s Choice 2024!Ā Come vote for your fave translators and of course, I’d heavily appreciate a vote for me. šŸ˜†

-etvo

300th Chapterversary for Star Gate!

It is with great delight that I announce my latest series, Star Gate, has reached three hundred chapters! To celebrate, I will be mailing postcards from Taiwan to anyone who has written a (proper) review on the novel page! Just send me your address at either @etvolare on Insta or @etvoscribbles@gmail.com!

Traditional martial cultivation and a budding society of arcane abilities clash in modern Silver City. Are the tried and true paths better, or are flashy arts of overwhelming power the new world order?

Li Hao is dragged out of normality by a song and the death of his childhood friend. Thrown into a war between old and new, he must decide which path to walk. Little do others know that the young man with an easy smile is the textbook definition of playing a pig to eat the tiger. Itā€™s not a matter of finding those who hurt him, but how much heā€™ll make them pay.

What will it be, qi or magic? But why do decisions always have to be black and white? Canā€™t he mix his own shade of gray?


Hello and welcome! I’m your translator etvolare and I’mĀ so excitedĀ to be bringing you Star Gate: Master of Time!

This is a crowd favorite on Qidian as it hitĀ #1 all siteĀ when it was updating and never fell out of #2. Given how Qidian is well known for their fantastic library, that says quite a bit about this series!

Written by Eagle Eats Chick, this author is well known for writingĀ gargantuan chapters. For ease of reading, I’ve split his chapters into regular web novel lengths of 3000+ characters. Therefore, our chapter numbers will not match the raws. There are 638 Chinese chapters, we will have roughly two thousand. The chapter titles remain the same as in Chinese.

If you’re new to one of my novels, it’s so very good to meet you! A little about my translation style:

I prefer translating for meaning and context, as opposed to direct and literal translation. My perspective is to make sure the author’s meaning and story is fully conveyed, as opposed to the number of commas or exact paragraph structure. I want to make sure you guys get the same hit of humor/anger/awe/etc in English as there is in the raws. Hence, the English may not be a 1:1 match to the Chinese, but the content and relevance are.

Readers frequently say their vocabulary gets a workout in my novels and well, I gotta say I was the biggest bookworm growing up. You name the fantasy/sci-fi/YA, I’ve probably read it XD. My vocab grew from those times and I tend to dislike repetition (e.g. repeating a treasure’s name 20 times in a chapter). Since SG is a modern setting, I’ll also be mixing in slang and modern idioms alongside uncommon words. (Guiz, I swear those words aren’t uncommon!)

You canĀ find me on InstagramĀ — where I share life in Taiwan,Ā or on TwitterĀ — where I share behind the scenes in translating.

The Way Spring Arrives and Others out now!

Some time in 2020, I had the honor and privilege of participating in a project written and translated by women and nonbinary members. I translated the second story in the anthology: The Tale of Wude’s Heavenly Tribulation.. The story follows a fox and his trials in cultivation, as well as the many unexpected mishaps along the way.

It was released in spring 2022 and is available in Barnes and Noble stores across the United States. You can also find it on Amazon and more!

From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy.

In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom. 

Written, edited, and translated by a female and nonbinary team, these stories have never before been published in English and represent both the richly complicated past and the vivid future of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. 

Time travel to a winter’s day on the West Lake, explore the very boundaries of death itself, and meet old gods and new heroes in this stunning new collection.