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Engelbrecht
Posted 2014-02-08 7:00 PM (#6407 - in reply to #6179)
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Dave, I can't seem to be able to edit my list post as I don't have an Edit button visible - has a setting changed, or am I just blind today?

I'm going to get with whargoul and see what we can do to make an official list out of this!

 An alternative approach to this might be to create colored number indicator for short fiction, translated works, etc.  Just as the red number indicator is used for awards and a black number indicator is used for lists, a green number indicator could be used for identifying misc. characteristics of works.

I guess my concern here is that the value of the black indicator connotes a certain significance for a work and that increasing this value for a work simply because it is a collection diminishes the significance of, for example, "Best 100" works.

Also, do we care about differentiating collections and anthologies (and "mosaic" novels like Simak's City)? Oh, and what about novellas that are published in a stand alone format, such as many of the works from Subterranean Press?

Heinlein's The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag is actually a title used both for the standalone short novel and as a title for a collection issued in 1959 by Gnome Press, never since reprinted (see ISFDB).  The later publication by Pyramid and Ace as referenced by the WWE db refer to the later publication of the work in a standalone format.  Gnome Press should probably be removed from the WWE db publisher list (possibly a separate work could be set up for the Gnome Press collection).

 


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