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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Highlights and Lowlights - April 2024
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In article <v1b7qi$2n6tm$1@dont-email.me>,
Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
>On 5/6/2024 1:49 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> In article <v1b49e$2mfe3$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
>>> On 5/2/2024 4:03 PM, Tony Nance wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip-snip]
>>>> I have "The Pirates of Ersatz" under its other title "The Pirates of Zan",
>>>> but I haven't read it yet.
>>>
>>> It's ... mildly amusing but rather lightweight.
>> 
>> To back up a little bit, I mentioned that title upthread after doing
>> a grep for "landing grid" in tall the Leinster stories in my Calibre
>> library.  Does ISFDB have a policy for what tags to add to a story
>> when it's entered?  Things like "landing grid" or "tormal" might
>> be useful.
>
>https://isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Help:Screen:TagEditor describes our 
>tagging policy:
>
> > Unlike most data submissions within ISFDB, there is no moderator
> > approval needed in order to add a tag -- new tags take effect
> > immediately. Once added to the Title, a tag will be displayed on
> > that Title's Bibliography page. Please do NOT add tags that spoil
> > the plot.
>
> > Most tags are descriptive, e.g. "space opera", "time travel",
> > "alien invasion", etc. You can also assign tags to create personal
> > lists like "read list", "verification list", etc, but moderators
> > may change the status of such tags to "private". Private tags can
> > only be seen by the tagger.
>
>Moderators have the ability to delete tags that do not comply with
>this policy.
>
>That said, what you described in your earlier comment:
>
> > the Med stories are definitely in a loose setting I call the
> > "Landing Grid Universe".  This includes at least "The
> > Duplicators", "Sand Doom", & "The Pirates of Ersatz". I'm sure
> > there are others I can't grep for.
>
>is different. If "Landing Grid Universe" is truly a shared universe,
>then the best thing to do would be to put individual titles and
>sub-series into it. However, SFE
>(https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/leinster_murray) argues that:
>
> > The similarities in background from one late novel to another
> > were sufficiently numerous for these books to make up one loose
> > series – but through sameness, not through any articulated
> > central conceit.
>
>It may be best to sort this out with the author of the SFE article
>(John Clute) before reorganizing Leinster's ISFDB bibliography.
>We have seen authors insert throwaway references to other series
>as "Easter eggs", but it doesn't necessarily mean that they comprise
>a super-series.
>
>I am going to add a quote from the SFE article to Leinster's ISFDB 
>bibliography for now. Thanks!

Thank you as well for the info!
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