Scroogled in Bulgarian and German

Georgi Ivanov and Maya Georgieva have translated my Radar story Scroogled into Bulgarian and Christian Woehrl has translated the story into German and uploaded it to the Internet Archive.

Scroogled (a story about the day Google became evil) was the first Creative Commons licensed story to appear in Radar Magazine, and it's been translated by fans into French, Spanish, Russian, and Persian as well! Link to Scroogled in Bulgarian, Link to Scroogled in German PDF, Link to Scroogled in German HTML

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