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Wow!  Thanks for so thorough a list.  I've corrected all of them except for the sorting.  I'll have to talk to whargoul about that one.  Some notes:

- We keep track of a bunch of different names for each author: full name, pseudonyms and display name.  We default to the display name which is what is usually on the cover of the books.  You never see "Kim Robinson" or "John Tolkien" on a book cover nor would you see "Kim S. Robinson" or "John R. R. Tokien".  For Robinson, the full name would work just fine because he uses his full name on his books covers.  For Tolkien, it would display as John Ronald Ruel Tolkien if we used full name which is just as weird as John R. R.

- For authors like Iain M. Banks/Iain Banks or Richard K. Morgan/Richard Morgan who use variations based on country or genre or whatever I've defaulted to the one that seems the most familiar or at least the most complete.  I've heard an interview with Morgan where he stated he prefers the K in his name like they do in the States so his was easier.  I try to list the other form as a pseudonym in these cases so folks can see they're the same person.

- In some cases I've elected to keep the pen name as the display name on the author record since it's more recognizable than the real name like with Cordwainer Smith or Robin Hobb.

Let me go on record here and state that I bloody well hate pseudonyms!  What a pain in the arse they are.  I get why people use them but they're such a nuisance.  There are many fine examples in your list where the silliness reaches epic levels:

- Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, aka Robin Hobb, aka Megan Lindholm, writes a book, The Inheritance and Other Stories, and credits both of her pseudonyms as co-authors!

- George F. Jewsbury, the uncle of author Neal Stephenson, collaborated with him on two different books, Interface (1994) and The Cobweb (1996). For these books he adopted the pseudonym J. Frederick George, and the two of them then adopted the collaborative pseudonym of Stephen Bury.

- Graham Joyce writes Memoirs of a Master Forger as William Heaney then republishes the same book under his own name with a different title!

I hope I can be forgiven these particular errors, if not the others.

Thanks again, Engelbrecht, for finding these.  Please let me know if you find anymore.  I sincerely hope you never look too closely at the publishers.....