Talk:Jack McDevitt

message: I am working on a new page on McDevitt's "A Talent for War" and linking it here, as was done for "Ancient Shores" and "Standard Candles". I plan a reasonably full article. I'll have it ready in about two weeks. Any comments or suggestions?
--Simmaren 04:10, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
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message: I went through the article and did minor cleanup and copyediting.
Here's a sentence that needs work:
"McDevitt's novels frequently raise questions which he does not attempt to answer, and drop them in favor of other plotlines which are of more interest to the author."
[last line, header para]
I think it's more accurate to say that he deliberately leaves ambiguities for dramatic and literary effect. See, forex, http://www.sfwa.org/members/McDevitt/Omega-Comment.html
Thoughts? Cheers, Pete Tillman 20:39, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As you can see, I edited this, and added a source and quote. Pete Tillman 21:31, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyedit request

message: Towards the end of The Engines of God, there is a line that goes something like "if she was ever in a similar situation (which she would be, but that's another story)" which indicates that he intended to write sequels. Obviously I can't put this OR in the article, but can someone come up with a reference to support the assertion that he intended it to be standalone? --Closedmouth (talk) 03:52, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I hadn't made it down here when I put the link up above, but it's there in the "Teeming?" section. But I agree - there's nothing about the book that says "stand-alone" - only McDevitt's comment on the book. 68.221.53.181 (talk) 19:58, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  written as a standalone novel 

message: I reverted this change because I believe the universe is more accurate as a literally term see Fictional universe Suppafly (talk) 20:09, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed "universe" to "galaxy" in the interest of accuracy. 

message: It's bugged me for quite a while that there's no day/month associated with the date of birth on this page (just because that seems like easy and necessary information for a biography), but I just figured that it wasn't publicly out there anywhere. I don't know if this is considered a credible source for wikipedia, but a post on the Facebook fanclub page (which is linked on his official website) has a post from Jack marking today (April 14) as his birthday. Is that good enough to use in the article? I literally made this account just to post this message, so I'm really not familiar enough with how wikipedia works. I just figured I'd put it out there and let the people who are more "in the know" use it.
Here's the Facebook page for quick reference https://www.facebook.com/jackmcdevittbooks
Lzpanzer (talk) 02:12, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll add it, looks like a direct facebook link is https://www.facebook.com/jackmcdevittbooks/posts/10152815946895662 Suppafly (talk) 15:32, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
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message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates and tables for short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. Feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 05:20, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
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