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== At the Edge of the Woods ==
 
 
When you have a chance, can you add transliteration (and a Japanese book) to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2995083 this one]? I am pretty sure that [https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E5%B0%8F%E9%87%8E%E6%AD%A3%E5%97%A3-ebook/dp/B00SQYTRHO this] is an early edition but not sure if it is the first (and my transliteration skills are not that great with Japanese). Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 15:24, 28 February 2022 (EST)
 
:Done. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:12, 28 February 2022 (EST)
 
:: Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:37, 28 February 2022 (EST)
 
 
== I Am Sleepless: Sim 299 ==
 
 
Hello,
 
 
The series name is part of the title in your [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?549822 verified]. Any objections to cleaning it up? And the same applies to the rest of the series. Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 22:57, 6 March 2022 (EST)
 
:All fixed, and the fourth book in the series added. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 11:49, 7 March 2022 (EST)
 
:: Thanks! [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 12:00, 7 March 2022 (EST)
 
 
== Vella and Best Indie Book Award ==
 
 
I am sorry I missed your Community Portal posts re: these two topics back in February. I have posted my thoughts/questions in the respective sections. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 13:36, 8 March 2022 (EST)
 
:No worries. Sometimes that page is flooded with things and it's hard to keep track of everything. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 13:56, 8 March 2022 (EST)
 
 
== Pyramid Giant ==
 
 
As a verifier of a Pyramid Giant {{P|1381|publication}}. Would you please see [http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Rudam#Men_Against_the_Stars this conversation]. The question is whether Pyramid Giant is a publisher or a pub series or both. Thanks. --&nbsp;[[User:JLaTondre|JLaTondre]] ([[User talk:JLaTondre#top|talk]]) 18:14, 18 March 2022 (EDT)
 
:I'll check when I get home. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 18:30, 18 March 2022 (EDT)
 
 
== 125 ==
 
 
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?597801; There's a $1.25 price in one corner and the ID in the other corner ending in 125. If 125 is not also part of the ID, why are there 24 other Popular Library ID's on ISFDB with 125 as part of the ID, plus other different prices included as part of many other ID's? Maybe somebody should look into that and discuss with others what the standard should be. --[[User:Username|Username]] 19:24, 18 March 2022 (EDT)
 
:That's just the way they did things. They had the SBN (the precursor to the ISBN) followed by the price. This was done up into the early to mid 1980s, at least. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:35, 18 March 2022 (EDT)
 
 
:: I know that's how they did things; I've seen it countless times in my 20,000+ edits here. So why are so many paperbacks entered here with it as part of the ID? This 1 book was "fixed", but what about the many others? Maybe they should be "fixed", too? --[[User:Username|Username]] 19:55, 18 March 2022 (EDT)
 
 
== Silverberg's Through The Time Lens ==
 
 
Hi, I just added a note to [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2900528 this story] which appears in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?852530 this pub you have verified], based on a (currently) ongoing [https://twitter.com/hammard_1987/status/1506343202579783684 Twitter discussion] about who is the writer with the longest career.  Hope you don't mind, and perhaps if you have still have access to the book, I dunno if there are any editor's notes or similar that might be more definite about the story's origin?  I can see from the contents page in the Amazon preview that it has a 2021 copyright date, so maybe it was never published prior to that anthology? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 16:07, 22 March 2022 (EDT)
 
:I'll check when I get home. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 16:34, 22 March 2022 (EDT)
 
:I wonder if anyone has the manual for Starflight? ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 16:37, 22 March 2022 (EDT)
 
:Okay, here's what I've found:
 
:*The original Starflight game came out in 1986. It was ported to the Sega Genesis in 1991 (specifically May 15, 1991). It's unclear whether "Through the Time Lens" was published prior to 1991, but I found a scan of the manual and verified it. I've updated [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2900528 the title] accordingly. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:00, 22 March 2022 (EDT)
 
:: Thanks - I'd added a further note to link to the game forum thread, but the info you've added is better than what I gleaned. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 17:05, 22 March 2022 (EDT)
 
:::Looks like Silverberg is 1952-2017 for fiction, based on the content we have. So, 65 years. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:33, 22 March 2022 (EDT)
 
:::: Possibly - [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2842210 this 2021 collection] doesn't have any contents entered, but the copyright page (per Amazon preview) claims that one of the stories has a 2021 copyright date.  I'm too lazy to work out which of the stories isn't currently in the database, and too cheap to buy a copy to see if there are any author notes that might explain if there's genuinely a new story or - more likely - if one of them is previously unpublished or a revised version of an older one. [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 17:54, 22 March 2022 (EDT)
 
:::::I'll have to update that one with my copy. I haven't gotten to it yet. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:57, 22 March 2022 (EDT)
 
::::::I've updated the contents for the TP publication. There's nothing specific regarding any story that indicates one of them is copyright 2021. Perhaps it refers to the introduction? ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 16:39, 23 March 2022 (EDT)
 
<< DEDENT >>
 
FWIW, the preview of the copyright page of the ebook says: "Individual Stories: Copyright c 1957, 1965, 1970, 1973, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1999, 2021 by Agberg, Ltd."  The implication of 12 stories, matches the number contents excluding the intro.
 
If try to match those years to what we have for the contents of that pub, I get:
 
 
    1957, Why?
 
    1965, The Sixth Palace
 
    1970, The Pleasure of their Company
 
    1973, Ship Sister, Star Sister
 
    1982, The Changeling AND/OR The Trouble with Sempoanga *****************
 
    1985, ?
 
    1988, We Are for the Dark
 
    1989, Chip Runner AND/OR I Another Country *****************
 
    1991, ?
 
    1992, Looking for the Fountain
 
    1999, Travelers
 
    2021 ?
 
 
I'm guessing [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3007607 the "Thebes..." story] needs merging with [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?14910 this Jan 1992 record], which probably accounts for the "missing" 1991 story?  (I'd do that merge, but I'm just wary in case you'd left it for a reason?)
 
 
That still leaves a mystery on the claimed 1985 copyright, not to mention the 2021 one, unless the latter is indeed the intro.  Given that all the contents other than the intro match up in some way with what was already in the DB, I'm inclined to chalk it down to an erroneous and/or misleading copyright page (in the ebook, at least)? [[User:ErsatzCulture|ErsatzCulture]] 17:39, 23 March 2022 (EDT)
 
:::It's probably a mistake. The print version has the same line. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:55, 23 March 2022 (EDT)
 
:: Goats/Gates -- unless there is a typo in one of those titles (which needs to be checked and not just assumed to be a DB typo), these Thebes stories have different titles :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 17:45, 23 March 2022 (EDT)
 
:::Typo, fixed now and merged. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 17:50, 23 March 2022 (EDT)
 
 
== The Walrus Master  ==
 
 
Hello,
 
 
Fixed the author name of [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3008222 this story] in your verified book. This (the suffixes) is one of the case when we always bring the name of the author to policy :) [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 02:41, 3 April 2022 (EDT)
 
:What did you change? ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 15:07, 18 April 2022 (EDT)
 
:: Carlton Mellick III -> Carlton Mellick, III as per our very explicit rules on how to record suffixes. [[User:Anniemod|Annie]] 19:33, 18 April 2022 (EDT)
 
:::Okay. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 19:37, 18 April 2022 (EDT)
 
 
== Sister Light, Sister Dark ==
 
 
You're a primary verifier on [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?30610 this book] by Jane Yolen. That was probably entered by Mhhutchins, but his User talk page requests that changes should be reported to other verifiers, and not to him, so here I am.
 
The publication comments include the statement "Includes eight additional pages of music and lyrics titled "The Music of the Dales"...". That collection of songs has been entered separately into the isfdb records as a "short story", apparently by Chris_J in updating "The Books of Great Alta". But since it's in the system, it would seem natural to included it in the contents of this book, and I have done so. I hope that's ok with you.
 
[[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 11:32, 16 April 2022 (EDT)
 
:Works for me. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 15:06, 18 April 2022 (EDT)
 
: Thanks. [[User:Chavey|Chavey]] 04:20, 21 April 2022 (EDT)
 
 
== Future Science Fiction Digest, May 2018 ==
 
 
I moved the issue number from the title to the notes in your verified publication [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?673621 Future Science Fiction Digest, May 2018]. For future reference, is this too trivial to bother you with? [[User:Scifibones|<b>John</b> <small>Scifibones</small>]] 17:43, 23 April 2022 (EDT)
 
:Yeah no need to notify me for things like that. Thanks, though. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]] · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]]</small> 12:47, 25 April 2022 (EDT)
 
  
 
== 鏡の国のアリス ==
 
== 鏡の国のアリス ==

Revision as of 14:38, 3 June 2022

Notice: If you're here to tell me of a minor change (image added, additional information added, etc.) to one of my verified publications, you do not need to make a note of it here. Thanks!


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鏡の国のアリス

When you have a moment, could you please take a look at this Japanese title? I am not seeing any differences between the parent title and its variant, so I am wondering if I am missing something or if they need to be merged. TIA! Ahasuerus 06:33, 1 May 2022 (EDT)

Yeah, they were the same thing. I unvarianted them and then merged them. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 12:54, 2 May 2022 (EDT)
Thanks! Ahasuerus 15:38, 2 May 2022 (EDT)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I accepted this submission and this submission (which impact your verified pubs) per this discussion. The second submission is showing a "Mismatched double quotes" warning, but as far as I can tell that was in the original also. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 08:23, 8 May 2022 (EDT)

Fixed. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 13:01, 9 May 2022 (EDT)

Shaun Jeffrey

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5310781; There's no date because the story was imported into an anthology with the same date as in this edit, an importation that you approved at the same time that you rejected this. Un-reject this. --Username 19:29, 12 May 2022 (EDT)

I didn't say there wasn't a date. I said you didn't provide a reason for the date change. Please always provide a reason for the changes you submit. Thank you. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:39, 12 May 2022 (EDT)
Also, the importation submissions appeared after this submission, so I had no way to know you had submitted the importations. I work through them in the order they were submitted. This is another reason to include a reason. Something as simple as "It was originally printed in an anthology with an earlier date" would work. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:41, 12 May 2022 (EDT)

Cemetery Dance Artist

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5311260; That's not part of his name, that's a photo studio or something similar, like all the cover artists on ISFDB with / Fotolia after their name. Whoever entered this entered it as if Stone was Wildsmith's last name; he has a separate record with 7 Harry Potter covers. --Username 20:49, 12 May 2022 (EDT)

That makes sense. I haven't run into too many of those myself. I've updated the entry. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 21:00, 12 May 2022 (EDT)

Legacy of the Darksword cover image

I've uploaded a new scan for the fourth printing of [1] that could match your ISBN based Amazon image for your PVed 1st printing. cover. --Glenn 18:38, 15 May 2022 (EDT)

Cheshire Crossing

Can you take another look at the various publications of this title? I suspect the first four (#1 to 4) are a serialization of the story, and should be type SERIAL, not SHORTFICTION. Also, I believe e-books don't get pagenumbers, and the 2019 title is varianted to the 2008 title, but title and author are exactly the same. Shouldn't these be merged instead? I found these on the "Variant Title Length Mismatches" cleanup report. Thanks for checking, --Willem 17:07, 20 May 2022 (EDT)

Myth & Magic

Perhaps you missed my response here? I uploaded scans of price and copyright page a week ago, and would like to delete these again. Thanks, --Willem 17:13, 20 May 2022 (EDT)

Hiyoko Kurisu

Cross Infinite World has published Rapunzel of the Magic Item Shop by Hiyoko Kurisu. As far as I can tell, this novel has not appeared in Japanese, at least not as a book. It may have been serialized online, but Google has been no help. Would you happen to have any ideas? TIA! Ahasuerus 08:42, 25 May 2022 (EDT)

Done! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 13:02, 25 May 2022 (EDT)
Thanks! Ahasuerus 13:25, 25 May 2022 (EDT)