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I'm John I live in Atlanta, Ga

I read all genres, SF and Fantasy are my favorites

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I collect Hardcover First's

Authors I have the most of

64 Anne McCaffrey
50 Piers Anthony
50 Eric Flint
45 Orson Scott Card
44 C J Cherryh
43 David Weber
36 L E Modesitt Jr.
32 David Drake
32 Terry Brooks
31 Larry Niven
31 Isaac Asimov
31 John Ringo
30 Ben Bova

Feel free to ask me to look up anything, even if I haven't verified it yet.

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-This discussion highlights an ISFDB problem. There are so many published works, there is almost zero chance that the moderator group has read any specific title. When an editor submits a major change, genre, in this case, we can assume they have read the work.  I applaud Ron for applying an objective standard to make his decision.
-Allen Drury is one of my favorite authors. I first read [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?41371 the series] in high school. I have reread it at least one more time, the first two volumes more than that. In fact, I still have my original mass market pb's.  The stories are written in the present (1960's). They can only be called "Alternate History" in the sense that they are fiction. Drury uses composite characterizations and created events rather than actual historical events and people. The statement " Two or three presidents have followed Eisenhower and the current president belongs to a party that is unidentifiable" is laughable. The characterizations were so identifiable that Drury had to publicly state that none of his characters were based on any real person or party.  While the central theme is constant throughout the series, each book has a different focus. Presidential prerogative and mechanics of the Congress, the sad state of the United Nations, the bias and corruption of the press are three of the books. I never considered these to be sf, [[User:Rosab618 |Rosab618]] is correct.
-Where does that leave us? From my limited time actively participating, we rarely get responses to questions like this. I have no problem with an objective standard, "appears in a recognized SF reference works. Reginald1, Tuck and Clute/Nicholls". My preference is to go with the opinion of a submitter who has read the work.  However, I will support whichever way we decide. Let's just be consistrnt. [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 10:18, 30 May 2021 (EDT)

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