Talk:Edgar Pangborn

Year Checking

Can someone find out when Angels Egg (by Edgar Pangborn of course) was published ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.102.109.201 (talk • contribs) 23:34, 28 May 2010

Aren't the references in the article good enough for you? ISFDB says in Galaxy, June 1951. JöG (talk) 21:47, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Sorry I missed that they would have been good enough for me had I seen them.97.102.109.201 (talk) 20:55, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Ah. I it found buried in the article. Shouldn't it be in Science fiction (stand alone)?97.102.109.201 (talk) 20:57, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

A "writer's writer"

I'm removing the part that says

In his introduction to Edgar's posthumous story collection Still I Persist In Wondering, Spider Robinson called Edgar a "writer's writer,"

because I've reread that introduction three times, and cannot find that anywhere. It's also damning with faint praise, since Robinson also wrote that he "loved Pangborn with all his heart" and that Pangborn's writing made him "more reconciled to being alive". JöG (talk) 22:06, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Bibliography

Maybe I'm wrong, but this page of Pangborn's seems loaded with errors. Can anyone provide evidence that "The Music Master of Babylon," "Longtooth," and "Mount Charity" belong to the Davy series? For that matter, why isn't The Judgment of Eve included in that list? Over the next day or two, I will probably transfer the info from the personal bibliography I did on Pangborn onto this page. Tom Dean (talk) 16:20, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Update on June 05 2012: Notes on the update of Pangborn's bibliography... Most if not all of the info concerning the Davy fiction comes from the articles by Pangborn and Spider Robinson contained in Still I Persist in Wondering, as well as the copyright page of Davy itself. Hanging chads: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Online version, states that The Company of Glory is based on some of the stories from Still I Persist in Wondering. I can find no confirmation of this anywhere. Is it possible that The Company of Glory is actually a fix-up of "The World is a Sphere" and "The Freshman Angle"? This would explain why those 2 stories were not included in Still I Persist in Wondering... Tom Dean (talk) 16:16, 5 June 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom Dean (talk • contribs) 16:14, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Additional note: The main article of this page states that "Longtooth" and "Mount Charity" are part of the Davy series, and I can still find no corroboration of this. Any help? Tom Dean (talk) 16:18, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Final note for June 05 2012: I've included "The Music Master of Babylon," "Longtooth" & "Mount Charity" in the list for the Davy series, but I still cannot corroborate any of them, and I'm pretty sure they are not listed in the Davy bibliography in Still I Persist in Wondering. It's a hanging chad for right now... Tom Dean (talk) 16:35, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

This is ten years belated, but The Company of Glory is not a fix-up and is not based on the stories mentioned. It's a short novel set in the earlier years post-holocaust, and was originally serialized in 2 parts in Galaxy magazine. Lee M (talk) 02:32, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

I've finally read "Mount Charity" and there's nothing post-apocalyptic in it, although it concerns familiar Pangborn topics like the survival of Earth and humanity. Will rewrite that part. JöG (talk) 21:39, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Bibliographic abbreviations

If anyone knows what the abbreviations (n, nv, in, ss, vi—have I missed any?) in the bibliography stand for, could you please expand them or wikilink to an explanation of the abbreviation? I haven't a clue! Thanks. Peter Chastain ^{[habla, por favor]} 21:07, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

These are almost surely from The Locus Index to Science Fiction . See this list of abbreviations.

Specifically

• n= "novel (over 100 pages, over 40,000 words)"
• nv= "novelette (21-45 pages, 7,500-17,499 words)"
• in="introduction"
• ss="short story (4-20 pages, 1,000-7,499 words)"
• vi="vignette (under 4 pages, under 1,000 words)"

I hope that helps. This probably means the biblio, or that section of it, was cut and pasted from Locus Online, which ought to be acknowledged. 50.203.145.82 (talk) 17:55, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

What would help more is to write in English. I will see if I can finish that job now. Zaslav (talk) 04:06, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Done. Zaslav (talk) 04:11, 22 March 2017 (UTC)