Talk:David Zindell

message: This is the same author of a book released 13th July 2017 called The Idiot Gods that I believe is part of the Neverness series, but I can't seem to find any references to that on here, or in the page relating to the Neverness series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Requiem_for_Homo_Sapiens (I don't know how to do the normal Wikipedia references, rather than a cite)
The book details from the publisher are here in this cite
MavericTB (talk) 00:08, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, have added to the list. I can't see anything linking it to the Neverness series. Greenman (talk) 08:16, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Idiot Gods (in Neverness series?) 

message: Zindell's science fiction novels, beginning with Neverness (1988), work to overcome the dichotomy between materialism and spirituality, being in part a mathematical search for the Source. His fantasy series, the EA Cycle is a grail-like exploration of the evolutionary progress of consciousness.
I'm sorry? The books are a mathematical search for the Source? I thought they were just really good stories. 
And in what way can an exploration be grail-like? Personally, I've been involved with explorations that have been so tiring as to give me a tremendous desire for a glass of wine but I never knew I could have drank the wine directly out of the exploration itself. Transentient
:I also don't see what's going on w/ the mathematical search stuff. For the grail stuff, perhaps "a search much like the grail-quest" or something. You can't have a grail quest, there's THE holy grail quest which arthur's knights set out on, that's it.--159.28.162.146 17:36, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence 

message: We call him simply American and place both his college education and current residence in the US state Colorado. We don't mention UK, British Isles, Britain, England --nor any overseas territory or people, nor Canada-- in prose.
Is the contest Writers of the Future essentially North or US American, or was it in 1985?
At least one early short story, "Caverns" (1985), was published in the British magazine Inferno (magazine). After the first novel Neverness (1988), all(?) were published primarily in the UK, if i understand correctly.
What's the British connection? Did Zindell live there? Marry a London editor who works remotely? Join the spec fic community via British Convention? 
Furthermore, do we know why his Ea Cycle novels are published in American editions with such long lags? Does their popularity differ greatly? Do British libraries or schools buy them and Americans avoid them?
--P64 (talk) 21:26, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The British connection 

message: The article states that the Ea Cycleis sword-and-sorcery. I'm convinced that indeed it is high fantasy as it matches every single characteristic - e.g. a superhuman antagonist, the struggles of the protagonist being depicted as a bildungsroman etc.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.212.118.177 (talk) 21:01, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genre Classification 

message: I have just made the page for The Lightstone a redirect to here, as it contained nothing except in-universe material and a partial plot summary. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 12:42, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Lightstone page