Talk:Peter Dickinson

message: Am I correct in thinking that the edit linking The Flight of Dragons book to a page on the film of the book should more properly be linked to a reference in the main body of the article?  Perhaps what is needed is a section on TV/Film adaptations.  The Devil's Children was televised (and shortlisted for a BAFTA).  There are probably others.--Plad2 (talk) 07:12, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved link to the film to a footnote.--Plad2 (talk) 07:26, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Beside more important things, I have expanded that listing in the list of Works, relying on our article The Flight of Dragons (the film). -P64
Is there really anything in the film that's based on the book, other than the title?  I'm considering removing the "partly based on" phrase.  The book is a really, really clever explanation of how huge dragons can get around the volume/area scaling problem of winged flight that turns out also to explain everything from why they breathe fire to why you have to sacrifice maidens to them, while the movie is a piece of fluff. Briankharvey (talk) 20:35, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flight of Dragons link 

message: Beside more important things, I have arranged most of the list of Works in two columns. In retrospect I see that with a narrow screen the layout would be much superior with "Children's picture books" at the bottom of the first column.
:: done 2012-11-21 -P64
There were several Works listings with (usually parenthetical) notes "also published as alternative title" or "apa alternative title. The later is no good at all but the former is too long, especially in the two-column layout. So I have presumed that the given primary titles were original, the alternatives subsequent, and have converted all to "; later, alternative title". 
Where alternative titles are those for U.S. editions of identical works, many of our author biographies and book articles use "; or alternative title (US)" or "in the US, alternative title". That is better if the alternatives are in fact U.S. titles. 
: The 'alternative' titles are, in fact, the UK titles.  I have swapped the order and marked the US titles as such. (I also removed "The Blue Hawk" from the adult list; it was also in the YA list, where it belongs.) Briankharvey (talk) 20:38, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate titles 

message: We do not put Dickinson in any  genre(s). In the lead we say especially "children's books and detective stories" which suggests but doesn't say especially detective stories when not writing for children. In Works our subsection heading is Mystery fiction for adults. In the footer we cat him (English) crime fiction writers and (Eng) fantasy.
Elsewhere we distinguish crime fiction, detective stories, and mystery fiction.
What about science fiction v fantasy?
How many of the CYA novels are realist rather than speculative fiction? and/or contemporary, historical fiction, prehistorical?
--P64 (talk) 20:03, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genre(s) 

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message: excuse me but why there is no any photo?
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