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MagicUnk
Posted 2019-06-21 8:45 AM (#20976 - in reply to #16398)
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Hello, could you add
Idle Hands: The Factory Trilogy Book 2, by Tom Fletcher
The Poison Song (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy 3) by Jen Williams
Thank you!
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Slinkyboy
Posted 2019-06-21 10:12 AM (#20977 - in reply to #20976)
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MagicUnk - 2019-06-21 8:45 AM Hello, could you add
Idle Hands: The Factory Trilogy Book 2, by Tom Fletcher
The Poison Song (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy 3) by Jen Williams
Thank you!


Done and done.
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joshshaine
Posted 2019-06-22 7:17 PM (#20985 - in reply to #16398)
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Not sure if this is the right place or not, but I have some names by women authors not among the nearly 600 you have listed on your veryr comprehensive list.

Janis Ian, SFWA member, author of short stories such as "His Sweat Like Stars On The Rio Grande" from Welcome To Dystopia ed. Gordon van Gelder. . Also wrote "Welcome Home (the SFWA Song)." www.janisian.com

Sylvia Louise Engdahl, author of the Newbery Honor award winning Enchantress from the Stars and 9 other SF/F novels. www.sylviaengdahl.com

Lisa "L.J." Cohen, author of The Between (fantasy) and Derelict (SF) and several others. https://www.ljcohen.net/

Abby-Lynnn "A.L." Knorr, author of Born of Water: An Elemental Origins Novel, and a bunch of others in that series, plus more beyond it. https://www.alknorrbooks.com/

Diana Waggoner, author of The Hills of Faraway: A Guide to Fantasy: (1978)

Carol Ryrie Brink, author of Andy Buckram's Tin Men (1966). She is the Newbery Award winning author of Caddie Woodlawn, but with this work, she belongs on your list.

Thank you for your time and consideration!

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illegible_scribble
Posted 2019-06-22 8:21 PM (#20986 - in reply to #20985)
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joshshaine - 2019-06-22 5:17 PM
Not sure if this is the right place or not, but I have some names by women authors not among the nearly 600 you have listed on your veryr comprehensive list.

Hi joshshaine,

Thanks for your enquiry, and welcome to Worlds Without End!

The Women Authors list is a subset of all authors in the WWEnd database, so it only shows authors for which we have works.

Janis Ian does have some short fiction in anthologies which are in the database (for example, New Voices in Science Fiction), but anthologies are listed by editor. We do not currently have any full-length works for which she is listed as author or editor.

Sylvia Louise Engdahl's and Carol Ryrie Brink's works are Childrens' fiction. While we do have some of that in the database, we have thus far concentrated on Adult fiction and, more recently, Young Adult fiction, in terms of what gets entered into the database, which is why we don't have anything for them right now.

Works by Lisa "L.J." Cohen and Abby-Lynn "A.L." Knorr are all self-published, which, apart from special exceptions, is not currently included in the database. See the FAQ for a description of which works are currently being included in the database.

Diana Waggoner's The Hills of Faraway: A Guide to Fantasy is an annotated list of fantasy books rather than a work of fiction, and it is more than 40 years old. While in recent years we have entered a fair number nonfiction works, they are generally award finalists and lengthy critical studies. This particular work would have been a likely candidate for the database back when it was published -- had Worlds Without End existed back then -- but it is really outdated at this point, and probably of limited usefulness to WWEnd readers.

I hope this answers your questions, but please ask for further clarification if you need it.

Kind regards,
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joshshaine
Posted 2019-06-22 9:05 PM (#20987 - in reply to #20986)
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illegible_scribble - 2019-06-22 8:21 PM

joshshaine - 2019-06-22 5:17 PM
Not sure if this is the right place or not, but I have some names by women authors not among the nearly 600 you have listed on your veryr comprehensive list.

Hi?joshshaine,

Sylvia Louise Engdahl's and Carol Ryrie Brink's works are Childrens' fiction. While we do have some of that in the database, we have thus far?concentrated on Adult fiction and, more recently, Young Adult fiction, in terms of what gets entered into the database, which is why we don't have anything for?them right now



Thank you for your response. Given who is in your database (such as Joan Aiken), I was surprised to not see Engdahl. Brink's story is veyr clearly aimed at a younger population than Engdahl's or Aiken's work, so that (perhaps temporary) exclusion makes sense.

But Enchantress from the Stars is billed as a YA novel and the late book, The Far Side of Evil, while having the same protagonist, is set for older readers than the earlier work. I would no more evaluate her presence in your database on Enchantress than I would Lois Lowry for Anastasia Krupnik!

It's your database and the collection is still an amazing piece. Given the lack of anything else as comprehensive that I am familiar with, while I understand your restrictions, I perceive some of the limitations as unfortunate. But there is only so much time in the universe, I suppose.

(When you get to the young side of YA or perhaps to Youth Fiction, you might conside Zilpha Keatley Snyder. But clearly not yet.)

Thank you again for your time and consideation.

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illegible_scribble
Posted 2019-06-22 9:30 PM (#20988 - in reply to #20987)
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joshshaine - 2019-06-22 5:17 PM
 Given who is in your database (such as Joan Aiken), I was surprised to not see Engdahl. Brink's story is veyr clearly aimed at a younger population than Engdahl's or Aiken's work, so that (perhaps temporary) exclusion makes sense.

But Enchantress from the Stars is billed as a YA novel and the late book, The Far Side of Evil, while having the same protagonist, is set for older readers than the earlier work. I would no more evaluate her presence in your database on Enchantress than I would Lois Lowry for Anastasia Krupnik!

It's your database and the collection is still an amazing piece. Given the lack of anything else as comprehensive that I am familiar with, while I understand your restrictions, I perceive some of the limitations as unfortunate. But there is only so much time in the universe, I suppose.

(When you get to the young side of YA or perhaps to Youth Fiction, you might conside Zilpha Keatley Snyder. But clearly not yet.)

Worlds Without End is not intended to be a comprehensive reference source, such as the ISFDB. It's intended to be a genre-specific reader's resource for tracking books read and to-be-read, and identifying works in which a reader might be interested, based on ratings and reviews by other readers as well as the synopsis. (For example, there are certain WWEnd members whose tastes I have found correspond quite well to my own, so I know that if they rate or review a book highly, it's quite likely that I will enjoy it, too. And I find out about a lot of the new books being released because WWEnders have requested them.)

Books are not added to WWEnd based on any sort of listing. Because there are limits to how much can be humanly added and how quickly, works are added based on what WWEnd readers are reading or wanting to read. Thus far, the membership here has been primarily interested in Adult and Young Adult fiction, and primarily in newer, rather than older, works. It's likely that a lot of the older works, especially childrens' works, will never get entered into WWEnd.

And if we included Graphic Novels and Comics (~17,000 per year), and self-published SFF works (~10,000 per year), the job would be insurmountable. So we have to have some sorts of limitations.

There are other resources on the internet intended to provide the sort of comprehensive biblographic listings you describe, such as the Internet Speculative Fiction Database and the Grand Comics Database. We're happy to let them be the best at that sort of thing, while we concentrate on being a much smaller, but far more deep, sharing library resource among people who are big readers of SFF.

 

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controuble
Posted 2019-06-23 6:22 AM (#20989 - in reply to #16398)
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Please add War - the latest (and final) book by Michelle West in the House Wars series. It just came out this past Tuesday.

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controuble
Posted 2019-06-23 7:13 AM (#20990 - in reply to #16398)
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Please add The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire - latest book in the October Daye series coming Sept. 3rd (or is that too far out?)

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FKatterjohn
Posted 2019-06-23 8:14 AM (#20991 - in reply to #16398)
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Please add the novelette "The Devil's Asteroid" by Manly Wade Wellman http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?720401,
Short Story "A World Is Born" by Leigh Brackett http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?720409,
Short Story "The Sky Trap by Frank Belknap Long http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?720405,
All three are in H-K Publications (Comet) http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?21221,

The is a re-request, Probably missed in the Blow Up.
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illegible_scribble
Posted 2019-06-23 8:27 AM (#20992 - in reply to #20990)
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controuble - 2019-06-23 5:13 AM
Please add The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire - latest book in the October Daye series

This one is in. 

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illegible_scribble
Posted 2019-06-23 8:31 AM (#20993 - in reply to #20991)
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FKatterjohn - 2019-06-23 6:14 AM
Please add the
novelette "The Devil's Asteroid" by Manly Wade Wellman http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?720401
Short Story "A World Is Born" by Leigh Brackett http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?720409
Short Story "The Sky Trap by Frank Belknap Long http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?720405
All three are in H-K Publications (Comet) http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/publisher.cgi?21221 [/QUOTE

Hi FKatterjohn,

These 3 short fiction pieces appeared in a magazine for which the publisher did only 5 issues in 1940-41. They are not award finalists, in any "Best of" anthologies, or available as stand-alone works, so they do not fall under the list of works we enter in the database. For more information, please see the FAQ.

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Naomi_uk72
Posted 2019-06-23 8:46 AM (#20995 - in reply to #16398)
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Howdy

As you seem to be open for requests again could I ask for the following to be added?

The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock (pub. 2007, Pyr) : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1245012.The_Metatemporal_Detecti...
Ecko Rising [Ecko Series bk 1] by Danie Ware (pub. 2012, Titan Books) : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13557892-ecko-rising
Ecko Burning [Ecko Series bk 2] by Danie Ware (pub. 2013, Titan Books) : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465962-ecko-burning
Ecko Endgame [Ecko Series bk 3] by Danie Ware (pub. 2015, Titan Books) : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22748087-ecko-endgame

Many thanks in advance. :-)

Naomi
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illegible_scribble
Posted 2019-06-23 9:01 AM (#20996 - in reply to #20989)
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controuble - 2019-06-23 4:22 AM
Please add War - the latest (and final) book by Michelle West in the House Wars series

This one is in. 

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Engelbrecht
Posted 2019-06-25 12:55 AM (#21011 - in reply to #16398)
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Engdahl's Enchantress from the Stars is now in.  The fact that the book is a YA that skews towards adult readers, as well as the notability of both the book and it's author make this a pretty easy decision for inclusion.
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Rhondak101
Posted 2019-06-25 8:26 AM (#21020 - in reply to #20995)
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Naomi_uk72 - 2019-06-23 9:46 AM Howdy As you seem to be open for requests again could I ask for the following to be added? The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock (pub. 2007, Pyr) : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1245012.The_Metatemporal_Detecti... Ecko Rising [Ecko Series bk 1] by Danie Ware (pub. 2012, Titan Books) : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13557892-ecko-rising Ecko Burning [Ecko Series bk 2] by Danie Ware (pub. 2013, Titan Books) : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465962-ecko-burning Ecko Endgame [Ecko Series bk 3] by Danie Ware (pub. 2015, Titan Books) : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22748087-ecko-endgame Many thanks in advance. :-) Naomi

 Ecko books are in. I will get the Moorcock book in later today.

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Rhondak101
Posted 2019-06-25 10:59 AM (#21025 - in reply to #16398)
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Moorcock now in
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FKatterjohn
Posted 2019-06-25 8:50 PM (#21029 - in reply to #16398)
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Please add, "Martian Quest: The Early Brackett". This is a Brackett anthology 1940 - 1942 that seems to round out the other Brackett anthologies. Such an important author of Pulp and transition to novels SF.

Thanks for all the Uber User efforts. Especially during hard times past.
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thejessleigh
Posted 2019-06-25 8:57 PM (#21030 - in reply to #21025)
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Hi! I was wondering if you could add the following to the database:
Bedbugs by Ben H Winters - http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1309808
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix - http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1987513
The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S. Lewis - http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?39410
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Mejia - http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2486960

Thanks so much!
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Slinkyboy
Posted 2019-06-26 11:38 AM (#21035 - in reply to #21029)
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FKatterjohn - 2019-06-25 8:50 PM Please add, "Martian Quest: The Early Brackett".


It's in.
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Slinkyboy
Posted 2019-06-26 2:53 PM (#21037 - in reply to #21030)
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thejessleigh - 2019-06-25 8:57 PM Hi! I was wondering if you could add the following to the database:
Bedbugs by Ben H Winters
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S. Lewis
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Mejia


These are in.
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thejessleigh
Posted 2019-06-26 3:00 PM (#21038 - in reply to #21037)
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Thank you so much for the quick turnaround!
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Rhondak101
Posted 2019-06-26 8:17 PM (#21044 - in reply to #21038)
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Hi thejessleigh, 

The database already had a copy of C. S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, but the Uber User decided to add another version because you asked for an omnibus that included the short story, "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" too. We've discussed this situation and decided it is better if the short story has its own entry to replace the omnibus entry.

So, your book read tag now applies only to the story (https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?id=34523), and you can go tag the book separately here: (https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?id=7707).

Sorry for the inconvenience and the confusion,

Rhonda 

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thejessleigh
Posted 2019-06-26 10:32 PM (#21046 - in reply to #21044)
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Oh, thank you for letting me know! I could have sworn that I searched for The Screwtape Letters and didn?t find it. My bad. Thank you for the disambiguation.
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dalex
Posted 2019-06-29 5:16 AM (#21054 - in reply to #21046)
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Can you please add....

Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Thanks!
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thejessleigh
Posted 2019-06-29 11:32 PM (#21059 - in reply to #21054)
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Sorry for jumping in again so soon.
Can you please add
Hadriana in All My Dreams by Rene Depestre http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2169228
Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2247188
Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2437609

Thank you all again for all your hard work!
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