User:Chavey

Who Am I?

Darrah Chavey

Supporter of WisCon, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and the Carl Brandon Society.

My specialty is SF by women authors, especially works before the mid-80's. For the current status of this project, see my SF Gender page.

For personal information about me, see my personal home page.

Ongoing Projects

Personal notes for projects I want to get to:

1. Non-Fiction publication series. Series that specialize in critique and analysis of SF&F, or SF authors, or at least that have multiple volumes on this topic. This does not include non-fiction series on SF art. Tasks to do, as appropriate: (i) Add missing issues, provide series links to appropriate web pages for the series; (ii) Verify against Locus1 to get contents lists, when available; Data about the author; (iii) Verify against WorldCat for possible additional content lists against WorldCat; Add reprint editions.
   
   Series completed:
   
   • Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies.
   • ALA Readers’ Advisory Series (some volumes).
   • American Cultural Heritage (only one volume).

   
   Current working series:
   Bastei-Lübbe Paperback (some volumes).
   Status: Starting.

   
   
   Series to evaluate include:

   •      Title series: (Most of which should probably be Publication Series)
   •   Still working on identifying candidate series
   • Babel Handbooks on Fantasy & SF Writers.
   • Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
   • On Fantasy.
   • Science Fiction Writing Series.
   • World Fantasy.
   •      Publication series:
   • Bastei-Lübbe Science Fiction Special.
   • Bibliographies for the Avid Reader (some volumes).
   • Bibliographies of Modern Authors (some volumes).
   • Bison Frontiers of Imagination
   • Borgo Literary Guides (some volumes).
   • The Borgo Reference Library (some volumes).
   • Cambridge Companions to Literature (some volumes).
   • Children’s Literature Association Centennial Studies (some volumes).
   • Continuum Literary Studies (some volumes).
   • Continuum Studies in Literary Genre (some volumes).
   • Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture (some volumes).
   • Conversation Pieces (some volumes).
   • Corgi SF Collector’s Library (some volumes).
   • Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
   • Critical Studies in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
   • Drumm Booklet.
   • Early Classics of Science Fiction.
   • The Gotham Library of the New York University (some volumes).
   • I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy and Criticism of Literature (some volumes).
   • Liverpool English Texts and Studies (some volumes).
   • Lost Race and Adult Fantasy Fiction.
   • The Milford Series: Popular Writers of Today (some volumes) (some volumes).
   • Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs (some volumes).
   • Popular Culture and Philosophy (some volumes).
   • Popular Culture Studies (some volumes).
   • Rororo Sachbuch.
   • Routledge Key Guides (some volumes).
   • Science Fiction (Arno Press).
   • Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism (some volumes).
   • Studies in Literary Themes and Genres (some volumes).
   • Studies in Speculative Fiction.
   • Theories of Contemporary Culture (some volumes).
   • Twayne’s English Authors (some volumes).
   • Twayne’s Masterwork Studies (some volumes).
   • Twayne’s Studies in Short Fiction (some volumes).
   • Twayne’s United States Authors (some volumes).
   • Twayne’s World Authors (some volumes).
   • Understanding Contemporary American Literature (some volumes).
   • Understanding Contemporary British Literature (some volumes).
   • University of Washington Chapbooks (some volumes).
2. Scan book covers
3. Scan the Analog with the artist's signature
4. International editions of Tiptree books
5. Identify the genders of as many authors as possible. Goal: Authors who have published at least one book (novel, collection, or anthology) before 1980. When not apparent, and no Wikipedia page, identify enough biographical data to justify an ISFDB "Bio" page, which includes the use of a gender-identifying personal pronoun.
6. Photos of Carl Brandon authors
7. Compare book collection with existing data
8. Read all the ISFDB documentation :-)
   Geez, do I have to go through all the archives too? Probably.
9. Enter data on missing fanzines?
10. Enter any additional data from "Urania's Daughters" bibliography of women SF authors.

My FAQ: Listing sources for biographies and author info

When noting sources for Bio pages, Author pages, etc, use the {{Note}} and {{Ref}} templates (adapted and simplified from Wikipedia) to provide footnotes. They way to use them is:

1. Each source note (or other footnote) should be in a separate paragraph, starting with {{Note|<nn>}}, where <nn> represents the note number, starting at 1 and going up to as many notes as are needed.
2. In the body of the biography, where reference is made to the contents of a note, insert {{Ref|<nn>}} where <nn> represents the number of the corresponding note.

See Help:Contents/Purpose#Sources and the template pages linked above for more details.

This can also be used to list sources of the other biographical data, such as true names, birth/death dates, etc. These sources can be placed in the bibliographic page for the author. Documenting sources is really a good idea that we should do more often.

Non-Fiction Series Notes

At present, there isn't room for notes on a publication series. So here are some notes that should be added when such a feature is available:

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies:

The normal status for the "Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies" series was that a Hard Cover and Trade Paperback edition was released simultaneously in England, and both versions were released simultaneously or nearly simultaneously by a publisher in the US. All of these publications then fall into this publisher series. The US publishers were: (This list needs to be verified!)

1. #1-8: Syracuse University Press
2. #10 -- Serconia Press
3. #16, 18-22, 24, 30-38 -- Chicago University Press
4. #17 -- Duke University Press
5. #28 -- Rowman and Littlefield
6. No known US publisher for: 9, 11-15, 23, 25-27, 29, 39.
7. Still doing research on those "No known US publisher" volumes.

There appears not to have been a trade paperback edition of #1, 8, or 32. Vols 38 & 39 do not have paperback editions yet, but these may be planned. Volume 35, and vols. 37 on, changed from simultaneous publication of both hard and soft editions to the "time lapse" approach, where the hard cover edition is released first, and the trade paperback version is released a few years later.

Most of the volumes in this series are non-fiction critical analysis, history, etc. Some of the volumes, however, reprinted early "classic" science fiction works. Those works also exist as publications not in this series. Volume 2 of the series ("Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and Its Precursors") is also listed on Amazon UK as being published at essentially the same time by "Dump Eurospan". I don't know whether that is a true separate publication, or whether it belongs to this publication series.

The web address for the Liverpool series is here.

ALA Readers' Advisory Guides

See [1] for a list of titles in this series.

American Cultural Heritage

Only one apparent title in speculative fiction. See WorldCat for a list of the titles in this series.

Other Publication Series

When we get Publication Series Notes, add the following:

Tauchnitz Edition of British and American Authors:

List of Tauchnitz publications at <http://www.archive.org/details/completecatalog00verlgoog>.

Ariel Library Series: The first Series, titled "The Ariel Library," was published beginning with "Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century", June 1891. We know of no listing of all books in this series.

The second (or "new") series, was published quarterly from 1894 to at least #24 in 1900. Inexpensive editions of previously published books. The first book in the series was "Hell up to date : the reckless journey of R. Palasco Drant, special correspondent through the infernal regions, as recorded by himself", which sounds like speculative fiction, but is not listed in ISFDB (as of 2011). The series was subscription based, for $2 per year, and published by "The Schulte Publishing Co., 334 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A."