Talk:The Night's Dawn Trilogy

message: someone said:
Ok seriously. Having to revert the habitat lifespan remarks over and over is getting old. "A lifespan measured in millenia" is still a limited lifespan. Habitats DO NOT have a limited life span. LIFE EXPECTANCY may be limited by various factors such as war, disasters, etc but life SPAN shouldn't be. If anyone can actually cite a chapter/paragraph in the book that says habitats have a lifespan that is limited to only a few thousand or even a few hundered thousand years. Please do so. But I recall absoloutly no mention of a lifespan limit for habitats, be in thousands or billions of years.
In chap. 22 of tRD (p.800 of the Pan book, ISBN:0-330-34032-8), Olsen Neale, Commander of the Confederation Navy office in Tranquility, says to Erick Thrackar, while discussing Jantrit: «The Edenists had never lost a habitat before, their life expentancy is measured in millenia.» I guess this ilustrates the point above, without proving or disproving it.
--62.48.171.17 19:20, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Habitat lifespan 

message: This page used to have a huge list of characters, technology, planets, etc - much of which I wrote. Where's it all gone? If it's been moved elsewhere that's one thing, but if it's just been deleted I'll be putting it back soon.
* This is a wiki, not a fan site. Descriptions of every world mentioned, in depth into all of the secondary characters, is interesting for a fan, but is not nessesary or in any respect central to the flow of the story. The story is about characters and their interactions: i'd suggest that no more than an overview of the universe is required.
**I'd respectfully disagree. A standard encyclopedia limits the scope of its articles because there is limited room available in even a multi-volume book. With wikipedia there are no such limitations, so no real reason to deliberately omit facts. BobThePirate 19:33, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's all the info gone? 

message: It has been few years since I read this trilogy, but wasn't one of the planets named after Józef Piłsudski?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 19:22, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piłsudski? 

message: "which is the final saviour of the human race is a clear example of Deus ex machina". I disagree. Is this the opinion of the writer of the article, or did somebody else say it? Scorchsaber 21:38, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dues Ex Machina

message: Someone attempted to change the spellings in this article about a British work to Americanized spellings. Wikipedia policy is to favor the spellings that go with the subject, if obviously one or the other. I've reverted those changes, but have left in two changed words:
* "Judgment" is apparently still favored over "judgement" in both dialects, according to Cambridge Online Dictionaries and Merriam-Webster Online.
* "Outmanoeuvre" was misspelled for either dialect, but is now corrected for UK spelling.
I also note that "Tranquillity", a proper noun in this context, is the correct (UK) spelling even in the my American edition of The Naked God. Finally, Cambridge does not list either form of "biomechanical", but MWO lists only the unhyphenated version, so I've restored that, too. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:54, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mea culpa. I didn't know some of those words differed in British English. Well, a couple things improved. Jason Quinn 16:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spellings 

message: This is a bit wishy-washy, really, certainly not all that useful for someone who hasn't read the books (I'm still reading the first). Perhaps we should inlcude more information on this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.30.132.2 (talk) 00:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Truth Behind Human Existence

message: If the Trilogy has really sold 19 million copies, that would be impressive and amazing, making it one of the biggest-selling works of SF of all time. However, I cannot find any sources at all for this statement.--Werthead (talk) 17:44, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed due to no citation being provided. This figure from PFH's publishers confirms that as of the publication of Pandora's Star in 2004, his total works had sold 2 million copies, meaning it is impossible for the NDT to have sold 19 million.--Werthead (talk) 02:05, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sales?

message: This page is mostly nonsense. I wouldn't be surprised if much of it was written by the author himself. The idiotic sychophant praise included in some sections makes me want to vomit... Or wonder what those people had to do to in exchange for writing them. This "vision" of the future does not make sense at all.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Svempa242 (talk • contribs) 15:58, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Nonsense