Talk:To Ride Pegasus

Novels: Short story / Fantasy Low‑importance

	Novels portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Novels, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and contribute to the general Project discussion to talk over new ideas and suggestions.NovelsWikipedia:WikiProject NovelsTemplate:WikiProject Novelsnovel articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by Short story task force.
	This article is supported by Fantasy task force.

Women writers Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women writers, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of women writers on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women writersWikipedia:WikiProject Women writersTemplate:WikiProject Women writersWomen writers articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Science Fiction Low‑importance

	Speculative fiction portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Science Fiction, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of science fiction on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Science FictionWikipedia:WikiProject Science FictionTemplate:WikiProject Science Fictionscience fiction articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Talents universe[edit]

Talents universe redirects to a section of our AIM bibliography (my choice yesterday). One alternative is the biography section Anne McCaffrey#The Talents universe. Another is the Series section of this article, To Ride Pegasus#Series --which is the most appropriate location for expanded coverage of that book series which includes To Ride Pegasus. Series including this book have been defined more and less comprehensively.

The bibliography section links here as main article. It provides no description at all (where her biography provides one line). It clearly lays out ISFDB usage and, in a single line, the grounds for including two "Barque Cat" books by AIM and EAScarborough (unknown to me).

Where the redirect is used now[1] (three pages in article space as I write), the Talents universe is called a "setting or series" or the "setting for several books" which is agnostic about the specification of a particular book series. In turn that fits the lowercase 'u'. --P64 (talk) 21:45, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

After splitting our Anne McCaffrey biography and bibliography almost two years ago, User:Mirokado made some suggestions about how the book series sections of those two pages should develop. In particular, M executed the split by duplicating some material but suggests that blurbs in the bibliography should be kept quite short while book series "sections in the main AIM article can be expanded a bit so they cover themes, interactions between different series, their contribution to Anne's growth as an author and so on". (Talk:Anne McCaffrey bibliography#After the split)

If so then the bibliography section should be(come) inappropriate as the redirect target.

At the same time, I think the Series section of this article, To Ride Pegasus#Series, should be(come) a target more appropriate than the biography section. This is where we should say the most about the Talents fiction of AIM, short of a dedicated article "someday".

Barque Cats[edit]

In order to improve this Talents coverage here or elsewhere I need to know something about the Barque Cats. Notes to self: blog another — Amazon Catalyst LibraryThing — Amazon Catacombs LibraryThing

Publishers Weekly "McCaffrey and Scarborough's simple prose is more suitable for younger readers, but the overstrained plot is ultimately disappointing." (linked to other reviews of AIM or EAS) --P64 (talk) 20:28, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]