Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neptune's Brood
The nomination tells us clearly that the nominator wanted to redirect this and so is just coming here because they were reverted.  But AFD is neither |cleanup, |third opinion nor a |forum.  AFD is only for cases where you actually want to extirpate something completely and make it a red link.  Now the book in question is the sequel to ''Saturn's Children (Stross novel)|Saturn's Children'' and so while it might be sensible to merge there, that's a matter of ordinary editing.  The current draft is just a stub which gives the simple infobox facts and so it doesn't much matter whether it's merged or not.  I've browsed the topic and find that, even though it's not published yet, there's more to say about it: that it was written using Scrivener (software)|Scrivener (a tool which may be of interest to article writers here);  that it is a pastiche of Heinlein's ''Friday (novel)|Friday''; that it features a society of android mermaids on Neptune; &c.  I further learn that Stross is a fairly successful author; that he wrote ''The Rapture of the Nerds'' with Cory Doctorow and that that's available as a free creative commons download.  That sounds interesting and so I have downloaded it myself
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Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTCLEANUP||WP:3O||WP:NOTFORUM (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)