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:
- Adding data from the Contento1 database. Status: Currently entering collection title data (but not contents yet).
- Told to Children Series. Add titles to this series. See the publication series note there for links to books up to 1906.
- Ancient works. Speculative fiction works prior to, say, 1850. See my Ancient Works page.
- Women authors. Speculative fiction works by women. See my Gender page.
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Non-Fiction publication series. Series that specialize in critique and analysis of SF&F, or have some volumes on this topic. This does not include non-fiction series devoted to: SF art; specific authors; specific characters or universes.
Tasks to do for these series, 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:
- ALA Readers’ Advisory Series (some volumes).
- American Cultural Heritage (only one volume).
- Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies.
- Bibliographies for the Avid Reader (Title series).
- Bibliographies of Modern Authors.
Series I'm currently working on:- Bibliographies of Modern Authors (Wildside). Publisher's web site. (Was down.)
- Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, see WorldCat.)
Series to evaluate include:- Publication series:
- 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).
- Title series: (Many of which should probably be Publication Series)
- Anatomy of Wonder
- Authors Teens Love
- Babel Handbooks on Fantasy & SF Writers
- Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials
- Bibliographies for the Avid Reader
- Bibliographies of Modern Authors
- Biblioteca Umoristica Mondadori
- Bio-bibliographies in American Literature
- Canongate Myth
- Complete BoSh
- The Complete Guide to Writing
- Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Croatan House Series of Bibliographies
- Das Science Fiction Jahr
- Dream Makers
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968
- F&SF Essay Collections
- Famous Monsters of Filmland
- Fantasy Chronicles
- Geschichte der Atomistik vom Mittelalter bis Newton
- Index to the Science Fiction Magazines
- Investigating Cult TV
- Lost Continents
- The Mammoth Book of . . .
- Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Modern Literature Monographs
- Monad
- More Science in Action
- NESFA Indexes
- On Fantasy.
- Rough Guides
- Science Fiction Book Review Index
- Science Fiction in Old San Francisco
- Science Fiction Research Index
- Science-Fiction Writers
- Science Fiction Writing Series
- The Secret Doctrine
- Starmont Reader's Guide
- Starmont Reference Guide
- The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines
- Studies in Speculative Fiction
- Twayne's United States Authors Series
- Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
- Über Tropfen, Atomistik und Kritizismus
- Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction
- Who Wrote That?
- The Vampire Library
- Voices for the Future
- What Fantastic Fiction Do I Read Next?
- The WisCon Chronicles
- World Fantasy.
- Writer's Chapbook Series
- Writers for the 70's
- Writers of the 21st Century
- You Write It!
- Scan book covers
- Scan the Analog with the artist's signature
- International editions of Tiptree books
- 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.
- Photos of Carl Brandon authors
- Compare book collection with existing data
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Read all the ISFDB documentation :-)
Geez, do I have to go through all the archives too? Probably. - Enter data on missing fanzines?
- 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:
- 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. - 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.
My FAQ: Awards notes
Honorable mention discussion:
- 'Honorable Mention' is award level 93. BLongley 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- For the 2004 awards, I changed all of the "Honorable Mentions" to "Level 93". But they still don't show up as Honorable Mentions. The only change seems to be that now if I try to "Edit an Award" on that page, those 4 books don't show up at all! Chavey 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- They do show up, but only on certain pages: Author Award Bibliography for instance. BLongley 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- The thing that I find frustrating is that if I go to the 2003 page for Asimov's undergraduate award, I see the three top places, then a line that reads --- Honorable Mention -------, then the honorable mentions. But if I go to the equivalent page for the 2004 awards, I do not see that line, hence lose that information. Chavey 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- I created an artificial story title "--- Honorable Mention -------", by the author "-" and put it in as a 9th runner-up for all of these later Asimov's awards. I think it's a reasonable workaround for now. Chavey 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- I changed how I handled the "Honorable Mention" separator, using dummy awards instead of a dummy book (with lots of awards!). I can't make it italic, but at least it's not clickable, so I think it looks better. Chavey 17 October 2011 (UTC)
Awards not exclusively SF:
New Award: Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award
- I added a new award to the "Awards" page. Of course we can't yet set the award links quite the way we would like to, since it's not in our short list of awards, but since there's only one category for this Award (that we care about), I just did a direct link to the winning book, instead of to an "Award Page", and then added the award mention to the Notes (since it's not generated automatically). Of course we'll be able to fix that eventually. But another point is that this award is an example where the award is not a "Spec Fic Award", but has often been given to a spec fic book. So I think we'd eventually like to include such awards, and I was hoping you could take a look at what I did and see if you think this is a reasonable approach (and goal). Chavey 6 November 2011 (UTC)
- I think this is reasonable, and would be a good example of how to deal with awards that we don't want to cover exhaustively, like "Newberry medal" or "Smarties Award". BLongley 7 November 2011 (UTC)
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!)
- #1-8: Syracuse University Press
- #10 -- Serconia Press
- #16, 18-22, 24, 30-38 -- Chicago University Press
- #17 -- Duke University Press
- #28 -- Rowman and Littlefield
- No known US publisher for: 9, 11-15, 23, 25-27, 29, 39.
- 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.