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illegible_scribble - 2016-02-17 6:19 PM

Most of the Novellas, Novelettes, and Short Stories which have been entered into the database thus far has fallen into at least one of the following categories (and a lot of it has fallen into two of them):

1) nominated for, or won, an Award 
2) available to read for free online
3) available to purchase in standalone form (rather than only as part of a magazine or anthology)

I've been holding off on "Citadel" (I love Aliette de Bodard's stories, too) because I was thinking that it would be an Asimov's or Nebula finalist and thus be made available to read for free. It didn't make the Asimovs and it doesn't look like a Nebula is going to happen, either, and it's still not available except by purchasing a back copy of Asimov's.

The Admin/site owner will probably want to weigh in here, but his direction to the Uber Users has been that the priority is for novels and not short fiction. Given that there are around 50 novels and 18 authors which still need to be entered to get the Prix Aurora added to the Awards database, at least 100 novels and related genre works from 2015 alone (and probably close to as many authors just for those books) which still need to be entered into the database (plus uncounted multitudes from previous years and a huge pile of stuff to get the Campbell Award for Best New Writer into the database), it's kind of hard to justify entering a lot of shorter fiction which doesn't fall into at least one of the above categories. Just entering the shorter fiction which has been nominated for the Hugos and the Nebulas is a gargantuan task which I've been chipping away at, but which is probably a couple of years from being finished.

Eventually, the site will probably be given functionality to handle shorter fiction by category, separate from novels, for reading lists and the various totals. But that hasn't happened yet, and probably won't for a while.

I apologize if this explanation is disappointing -- but I do understand the Admin's thinking that there is a danger in having the site try to go off in too many different directions at once and not finishing or doing any of those things well.

I'm keeping an eye on "Citadel", and if it becomes available to read online, or as a standalone novella for sale, I'll get it entered into the database tout suite. 

valashain - 2016-02-17 7:22 PM

I couldn't help myself and added a story by Aliette de Bodard. It's the only one of the four I found at Clarkesworld that wasn't in yet

https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?id=17328

Jalayn - 2016-02-18 5:07 AM

Could you please add the last translated entry in The Witcher series ?
The Sword of Destiny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Destiny

Thanks very much !

dcraig007 - 2016-02-18 5:08 PM

Hi! Could you please add "The White People and Other Weird Stories" by Arthur Machen and "Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories" by Algernon Blackwood? Thanks!

TheLegendarium - 2016-02-18 8:03 PM

We chatted with the author of "In Absence of Fear" (Celeste Chaney) a few months ago on the Legendarium. I'd love to leave a review on this site, I just need an uber to add it! It would work great in the Near-Future and Dystopia sub-genres.

Trifecta. I had to add the publisher, the author and the novel.
The novel sounds nasty.
I wonder if she got into the issue of tumors surrounding the implants?

pizzakarin - 2016-02-20 10:19 PM

Requesting "Master of Space and Time" by Rudy Rucker. I just finished reading it.

JohnBem - 2016-02-21 5:31 PM Hello! I recently discovered Worlds Without End (via Tor dot com) and I'm enjoying the site quite a bit. For my initial foray into WWE, I joined the Punk's Not Dead RYORC. I'm finding it a bit tricky to search and navigate the forums; I can't locate the Punk's Not Dead thread and I'm not really sure where to go to submit a request for a book addition, so I'll do it here and hope some benevolent entity notices and grants my wish. There's a book that's been in my collection for a few years now, but haven't read it yet, and it would fit perfectly with this reading challenge. I'd like the following book to be added to the site please: Splatterpunks: Extreme Horror Edited by Paul M Sammon 1990 St Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-04581-6 Thank you!

JohnBem - 2016-02-21 3:31 PM

Splatterpunks: Extreme Horror
Edited by Paul M Sammon

Llyren - 2016-02-22 8:34 PM

Hi,

I wanted to use Sarah J. Mass - A Court of Thorns and Roses for one of my challenges but could not find it. Could someone please add it to the DB? Thank you!

valashain - 2016-02-22 1:48 PM



It's in.

dustydigger - 2016-02-28 5:17 AM
Please could you add Thea Harrison's Elder Races series?

illegible_scribble - 2016-02-27 5:49 PM

Those are all self-published, and my inclination would be that they don't quite fall under the criteria for inclusion in the WWEnd DB.

I'lllet the Admin orone of the other Uber Users weigh in on that.

jontlaw - 2016-02-22 6:56 PM


The Inexperienced Ghost by H.G. Wells
At the Edge of the World by Lord Dunsany
Seven Footprints to Satan by A. Merritt
Legion from the Shadows by Karl Edward Wagner

thanks