Author:Christopher Stasheff

Internal consistency pass done. Need to check whether the retrofitting of _A Wizard in Bedlam_ into the _Rogue Wizard_ series changed its internal numbering thing. Ahasuerus 21:17, 27 Sep 2006 (CDT)


 * I've assigned omnibuses proper Type and Storylen (however they still display out of order: is current sorting alphabetical, or what?) and merged duplicate titles which traditionally appeared in them. However, this brought a problem (also tradditional) with King Kobold Revived (caused by it being listed as a vt and not separate novel): most of its publications appear on main, ur-King Kobold page and not the Revived one. Also, all sources agree (Locus1; dtto Christopher Stasheff, SFE etc.) that it is not "King Kobold Revived (revised 1975)" as it was published only in 1984! --JVjr 06:21, 8 Mar 2007 (CST)


 * King Kobold Revived is listed as a variant title of King Kobold. If they are the same story then that's correct though I see a "(revised 1975)" implying that it's a new/updated story. In that case, go to 187077, click on "Make This Title a Variant Title or Pseudonymous Work" and make the parent ID 0 (zero). This will remove the variant title relationship and I'll leave you to decide if the story should still be listed as being in Rod Gallowglass series.  (it'll be there in position #3 twice).  Hopefully someone with a copy of the 1975 edition can add a note explaining the nature of the revision. It may be a new introduction for all we know.   14:03, 8 Mar 2007 (CST)


 * King Kobold (1971) was widely seen as a very weak sequel to "The Warlock in Spite of Himself", a rather promising first novel. When the series took off in the 1980s (commercially if not artistically), Stasheff rewrote King Kobold, changed the title to King Kobold Revived and it became the new canonical version. Ahasuerus 15:28, 8 Mar 2007 (CST)


 * I also changed the date of King Kobold Revived 187077 from 1975 to 1984 as that seems to make sense given the available data but also added a note asking someone with a copy of a publication to check the copyright date to see if the source of "1975" can be discovered.  14:03, 8 Mar 2007 (CST)


 * "1975" apparently comes from Stasheff's Fantastic Fiction bibliography, which is majorly messed up. It should be 1984. Ahasuerus 15:28, 8 Mar 2007 (CST)


 * re: "still display out of order" - The series are displayed in SQL order (basically random) though I believe there's a request out there to sort them to a consistent order (alphabetical or chronological) or better yet to allow editors to manually define the order. 14:03, 8 Mar 2007 (CST)


 * Numbered entries usually display in series order while unnumbered entries are displayed chronologically. Ahasuerus 15:28, 8 Mar 2007 (CST)


 * Yes, I meant the three omnibuses at the beginning of the series: apparently omnibuses are always listed before the ordinary books in the series, but the order within this subgroup is not directed by date nor "Storylen" numbers. (Well, I've downloaded the scripts, it can't be hard to learn Perl. Right? :-) --JVjr 16:13, 8 Mar 2007 (CST)


 * It's even easier to learn Python, the language used by the ISFDB scripts :)


 * As far as omnibuses go, I was misremembering when I wrote "unnumbered entries are displayed chronologically" earlier. There was a request to make them display chronologically a couple of months ago, but apparently it hasn't happened yet. Ahasuerus 16:53, 8 Mar 2007 (CST)