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		Awarded in recognition of your research efforts in contributing the early literary fiction-use example Telek to the article Psychokinesis. 5Q5 (talk) 15:58, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

DK and the Italian magazine ROBOT

Hello, LH. This morning I was looking at a fan site http://www.fantascienza.net/robot/knight.html for the Italian magazine ROBOT http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_(rivista) and saw that Damon Knight's Stazione Aliene was published in Robot's first issue, April 1976 http://www.fantascienza.net/robot/01.html

It's interesting that none of the 3 DK stories in Robot have en.wiki articles. You seem to be the point man for DK, so please file this info somewhere in your mindspace.

And ROBOT might be a good candidate for inclusion in en.wiki, don't you think? NinetyNineFennelSeeds (talk) 17:34, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

I just read about the spoof of To Serve Man in the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror. Very funny. I've never seen the episode. NinetyNineFennelSeeds (talk) 14:04, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

I finally got around to reading The Red One. It's a strong story. I've been looking through Jack London material and am intrigued by his life + works. To start: "London's mother, a music teacher and spiritualist who claimed to CHANNEL the spirit of an Indian chief, became pregnant, presumably from her union with William Chaney, an ASTROLOGER." And The Star Rover: "Told in the first person by D. Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device -- a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives." Lastly, in Before Adam: "Red-Eyes, a fierce being that rules the Cave People."

I liked how you kept the plot description in The Red One very brief. IMHO, if one talks too much about a novel's plot + method on Wiki, the reader doesn't have the chance to meet the author's language + narration tricks in a spontaneous manner. I love all the links, etc. we do here on Wiki, but sometimes the actual literature can get lost in the shuffle. Any comments about that? NinetyNineFennelSeeds (talk) 21:22, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

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		Thank you for your tireless efforts and your integrity. — Bryan Anderson (talk) 02:09, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

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Wiki Wednesdays with Rare Books, March!

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		Thanks so much for participating in our Wiki Wednesdays with Rare Books event to contribute to pages about women! – gwendy | ☎  13:42, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi Gwendy,

thanks for the Goddess Barnstar!!

I was wondering -- recently Wikipedia gave me access to the Wikipedia Library: https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/.

It would be nice if U of R could add itself to the list of institutions (currently there are 71) which make their press's books available here. It would be joining Cambridge Core, the Loeb classics library etc by doing this.

The motivation seems to be to encourage Wiki editors to cite the publications.

Lyle Howard LyleHoward (talk) 14:05, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

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Damon Knight

Hi -- I saw you added this picture of Knight to his article. Currently the image page says it's your work, and the date is today, but of course that's not right -- it looks like it was taken some time in the 1950s or 1960s. Did you take it? If so, could you put the approximate date on it? If you don't know exactly when you took it, just put a date near the right time and add a comment in the "source" section of the summary. If you didn't take it, do you know where it's from? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 21:27, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Lyle, can you let me know the answer to this question? I ask because as it stands the tags make no sense and I would normally nominate for deletion as the licensing can't be right. It's a good picture and I'd prefer to keep it, but that's not possible unless we fix the licensing. Thanks. (And by the way I agree with you about Knight -- one of the best short story writers in sf.) Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:39, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi Mike,

sorry that I was so sloppy with this.

How about if we go ahead and delete my upload. Once this has been done, I will try again, this time being more careful about the documentation.

Thanks! LyleHoward (talk) 21:59, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

I can nominate it for deletion if you like, but if you did take it I can update the details for you so it's correct -- seems like that would be easier than deleting it and re-uploading it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:05, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

I went ahead and nominated it for deletion; if you did take it yourself we can get it undeleted if necessary. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:00, 20 October 2024 (UTC)