Talk:Patricia A. McKillip

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 19:10, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] June 2007

I've added ISBNs for all the books. My sources were amazon.com, isfdb.org and my own collection. Please check my work.

For some of the older books, I could not get ISBNs for the first editions. In particular, the ISBNs for the three Riddle-Master books are for the Futura paperbacks, which were the original British editions.

Between Amazon and the ISFDB, I found 5 (five) omnibus editions of the Riddle-Master trilogy, all with different names. I've listed them all; we probably should delete some or most of them.

The Moon and the Face is a sequel to Moon-Flash; I've moved them to a new subsubsection called the "Kyreol duology". Solstice Wood is set against the same background as Winter Rose, but generations later; I left both under "Other works".

Since lots of the titles were redlinks for books which probably would fail Wikipedia:Notability (books), I 'delinkified' all but the award-winners.

I wonder if we really need to list all those short stories. Maybe we should only list the ones including in "Year's Best" collections?

Cheers, CWC 12:18, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

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This article is primarily composed of a long list with many lists of books embedded into it. The article certainly needs more than this, and as Wikipedia discourages lists of this nature (see WP:LIST) this needs to be changed, at least so that the bibliography is not the major portion of the article. --Shruti14 ^{t c s} 23:40, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

You have a good point. I started adding more bio information, but I think we need a better source than the one I provided. Also, CWC suggested above that perhaps not all the short stories need to be mentioned... Forestgarden (talk) 22:19, 28 March 2008 (UTC)