Talk:The Gap Cycle

message: Some information to complete this article could probably be gathered from www.stephenrdonaldson.com. In particular the "gradual interview", where some quick searching for "Hashi" turned up this:
And throughout the life of the GAP books as I considered and wrote them, names played crucial roles as sources of inspiration and insight. Angus (bullheaded) Thermopyle (famous battle where a few warriors struggled against insurmountable odds). Morn (morning) Hyland (the Highlands of Scotland). Warden Dios (the caretaking, defending, imprisoning god). Godsen Frik (Hagen in my favorite recording of "The Twilight of the Gods" is sung by Gottlob Frik, and Godsen Frik is the "dark and hungry god" Holt Fasner's moral son). Lane Harbinger. Koina Hannish. Hashi Lebwohl. Sorus Chatelaine. Min Donner. Marc Vestabule. Vector Shaheed. The names positively *sing* to me, telling me who these people are, where they come from, what they care about.
(No information about where the name "Hashi Lebwohl" came from, though.)
Given Donaldson's own explanation as to the origin of the names of Angus, Morn, and Nick (he made them up and kept them because they sounded catchy and emotional), I think that their analysis is somewhat superfluous. This is not to say that they don't "sing" in the manner he describes, but I doubt they were synthesized to have the claimed meanings. --Eyrian 19:26, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Totally agree, and I'd go further. I think all the speculation and essay-style stuff in the article is original research and should go. The quote from Donaldson himself is a much better reference. Since the Gap/Ring comparison is about half the article and removing it is quite a large step, before I go ahead, comments are welcome. --Telsa 21:05, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems unfortunate to remove the entire analysis, as it seems to be good stuff. But given the policy against original research, it may need to. The connection to Wagner's Ring is not entirey original, as Donaldson goes on about it at length in my edition of the book. However, many of the connections here seem original, and I cannot find any corroborating sources.--Eyrian 21:23, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Source of names

message: For those of you really interested in the relations between The Gap Cycle and The Ring Cycle, there's a nice little source to look at: . Although I personally find the review to be full of poorly made content, praises and criticisms alike, it is a source! And he/she is a fairly entertaining author. Read under the "Pull the Wagons in a Circle" heading for good info on Wagner/Donaldson comparisons.--Mr Bucket 22:16, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: A Source!

message: Perhaps the plot should be broken down into sections for each novel (and that information also copied to the individual articals for each novel that I just created) RoyBatty42 23:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot

message: I just created articles for each book of The Gap Cycle and they are in dire need of plots, images of the cover art and other useful info RoyBatty42 23:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm in the process of reading them so I wrote a section on the second book (there was already one for the first book). I'll continue to write plot summaries (assuming the others haven't been done already, I haven't checked). It would be helpful if people interested in this series would look over what I wrote and fix the plot points\grammar\etc. I'm not exactly a writer. --Thaddius (talk) 13:08, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles for Each Novel Created

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message: Does anyone know if the Gap Cycle's feature rights have been taken up? Twobells (talk) 14:27, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scripts/Movies in Pre-Production? 

message: The publication dates were incorrect, so I adjusted them. The original writer seems to have been using the US publication dates, when some of the books were published earlier in the UK.--Werthead (talk) 15:36, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publication Dates 

message: This article needs to be almost completely rewritten. The plot section is not even half-finished, and we have a long essay which I'm not entirely sure belongs on Wikipedia. Anyway, I've read part of the series, and when I finish it (knowing me, in a few months), I'll give this article a nice big makeover.122.106.160.244 (talk) 00:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs a ''Lot'' of Cleanup

message: This article is a copy of http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/The_Gap_Cycle
but which came first?
Also http://www.search.com/reference/The_Gap_Cycle
The more I google the more copies I find
Mtpaley (talk) 00:27, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at the absoluteastronomy.com page, this wikipedia article is clearly credited as the source at the bottom. DonVincenzo (talk) 01:27, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy?