Talk:The War Against the Chtorr

message: Okay, so I've made an article that gives a brief description of the series. Let the edits begin! - GK
I am trying to flesh out more details of these novels.  This includes some information about the various flora and fauna of the invasion.  In addition, I am adding links to other characters which appear in other novels.  I am about to reread the series, so will hopefully have more to add soon. -  15:20, 31 March 2006 Mushrom
Added Infobox, and will try to flesh this out a bit more in the comming days.  Mushrom 21:18, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Thanks for doing this GK.  I read one of these books years and years ago, but it got lost in the mists of time, never had a clue that there was a series until i saw a reference to chtorr on another article!!  I have now got the first book, with the next on order!  How about a timeline for events?
*I have a similar experience; read the first two ages ago - we're talking twenty years. But it took me from then to now to find the next two. As for a timeline, I don't really know. I think it would be hard; he seems to have updated the tech a little over time to keep things current, understandable since the series has spanned 23 years of real time now. I suspect you could construct something if you sat and read through them all, noting all the "five years ago..." type references as you went. (GK) aka BobThePirate 12:31, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline 

message: One comment the "Dingiliad" series (Jumping off the Earth, etc) reveals that that trilogy takes place 56 years before the next return of Halley's comet. That places it in either 2005 or 2080. Seldenball (talk) 21:50, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speculation 

message: The "Chtorr" story is engrossing (and the narrative style changes from volume to volume, something on which I see no comment).
However, there's no mention of the monetary system built on the casey, the amount of wealth needed to purchase one kilocalorie (kC) of food ration from a government depot. It's an ingenious concept.Weeb Dingle (talk) 07:11, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Have sources discussed it? DonIago (talk) 16:48, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't seem to matter here — 47 kb of content, citing only seven "references"… of which four are primary source (Gerrold's Facebook page, Gerrold's website, a Gerrold novel) and two are the same Gizmodo article. Call it two "sources" total. Maybe Gerrold discusses the casey on his website somewhere and some editor will get around to looking it up, assuming there are any actual editors wandering past here to dispense sage advice.Weeb Dingle (talk) 16:40, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Of course it matters. The fact that an article is poorly sourced does not mean more unsourced content should be added. On the contrary, unsourced content should be provided with refs, or removed. WikiHannibal (talk) 16:04, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  oversight 

message: Proposed changes to the characters section to improve depth and accuracy (spoilers):
Duke Anderson:  Dies at the end of Book 2
Lizard Tirelli and Jim McCarthy:  Relationship is complicated, but they are married by the end of Book 4 and Lizard is pregnant.
Jason Delandro: Killed by McCarthy at the end of Book 3 under the "Euthanasia Act"
Randy Dannenfelser: Flamboyant homosexual antagonist to Jim McCarthy, who agrees to provide McCarthy the means to locate another character not for McCarthy's benefit, but simply because it is the right thing to do.
Steven Britton - The World Wouldn't be the Same Without Me (talk) 16:35, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character Section 

message: The link for the word "redacted" points to the literary form of redaction, which is combining multiple texts into one. However it should be pointing to the censorship form of redaction. I'd make that change myself, but that page isn't titled "redaction" (it's titled "Sanitization (classified information)"), which might cause confusion that it doesn't match the word representing the link. Thoughts? Ekolis (talk) 20:02, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  First and second editions