Talk:Tom Holt

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Merger discussion from K. J. Parker[edit]

Somebody put a merge tag on K. J. Parker. I think that the articles should stay separate for now because the Parker pseudonym has had a separate, notable 17-year-long career. Sandstein 08:22, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There's also some discussion of this on the Parker talk page. Despite what I said there, I think the best course now is to hold off on a merge. It's true that at present both articles are so bare a merge wouldn't make much difference, but theoretically there's room for the Parker article to become something like Richard Bachman. If in about a year's time neither article looks much better, we can revisit the point. Brendan Moody (talk) 10:32, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. At the moment we have nothing but a bare announcement and a promise of a forthcoming longer article. Choor monster (talk) 11:40, 22 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I would support a merge, since they're the same person. BPK (talk) 16:19, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone familiar with his books care to add them to this list?[edit]

Types of mythological or fantastic beings in contemporary fiction is a page of, well, fantasy works (movie, TV, written, whatever) and the assorted mythological and/or fantastic critters they contain. At least some of Holt's books would probably qualify. Anyone care to add them? Tamtrible (talk) 10:28, 26 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Time to merge K. J. Parker with this article?[edit]

Holt himself has merged his bibliographies. For example, the list of books in Holt's latest include those by "Tom Holt" and those by "K. J. Parker". (No mention is made of those by "Thomas Holt".) 128.91.40.241 (talk) 19:39, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge with K. J. Parker[edit]

K.J. Parker is Tom Holt's pseudonym, the pseudonym's article should be merged into the author's Orville1974 (talk) 19:57, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I support this merge. The independent page made sense before it was known that K. J. Parker is Tom Holt but now the correct action is to merge. maclean (talk) 05:00, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This makes sense. The styles and topics are similar (unlike, for instance, certain authors who prefer to keep their literary fiction separate from their horror fiction). I suspect much of his use of a different name had to do with publishing, not audience. But just my humble opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.254.152.32 (talk) 01:09, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I deeply disagree with that assessment: the bulk of his works as Tom Holt are comic – verging on slapstick – set largely in our own world with mythic or fairy tale intrusions, whereas those as K. J. Parker are realistically grim and unsettling accounts, sometimes by sociopathic narrators, set in mediaeval or early modern worlds with no connection to ours; they seem to me to be aimed at radically different (though perhaps slightly overlapping) audiences. That said, I don't disagree with the merge. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.125.74.203 (talk) 15:32, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 10:58, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]