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One wonders why there is no mention of the fantasy series, "The Gandalara Cycle" with Garrett's name on it, but actually written by his wife, Vicki Ann Heydron.

For that matter, someone should create an entry for her, as well.

Pgranzeau 14:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pseudonyms?

A well-known reference book -- Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography, by Allen J. Hubin, Garland, 1984, ISBN 0 8240 9219 8 -- cites both Murder and Magic and Too Many Magicians as having been written by Larry M(ark) Harris and Randall (Phillips) Garrett and that Randall Garrett is their joint pseudonym. To be honest, I can't quite believe this, having never heard of these books being a collaborative effort, but at the same time, Hubin is so exhaustively encyclopedic and well-known for being thorough and accurate that I find it hard to disbelieve as well. Hubin also apparently notes that the two men write as "Mark Phillips" and that "Laurence M. Janifer" is a pseudonym for Larry M(ark) Harris. Trying to trace back the pseudonyms seems to result in a kind of Ourobouros circle. Does anyone have any other citation for the authorship of the Lord Darcy novels that could verify or disprove this? Or is it simply that I have somehow misread the exact implications of the welter of pseudonyms cited in Hubin? I think the books are very enjoyable, regardless of who wrote them, but perhaps this could be cleared up by someone more expert than myself. Accounting4Taste 20:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To my knowledge, the info at Mark Phillips (author) details the complete history of their joint authorship pseudonym.--Alabamaboy 20:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Canonical?

Suite mentale is here at gutenberg [1]. How does it fit in? 88888 13:23, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And ...After a Few Words... [2] - canonical? 88888 (talk) 11:28, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not forgetting Vigorish [3] 88888 (talk) 17:31, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Or Hail to the Chief [4] 88888 (talk) 16:42, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Names

It says in Mark Phillips (author) that his full name is "Randall Philip Garrett" (whence the "Phillips" in "Mark Phillips" comes). If that is true, this article should include that full name in the introduction. On Project Gutenberg, his name appears as "Garrett, Gordon Randall" which sounds fishy to me. Gordon has been a pseudonym of his, apparently, but is not actually one of his names, I'd guess. It would be nice if that part were cleared up in the article, too. --Cromwellt|talk|contribs 17:21, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography

The bibliography sections of the article are redundant and inaccurate, with works appearing in multiple places and short stories listed as novels, etc. It needs a major clean-up and realphabetization (currently the words A and The at the beginning of the title are used to order the titles). Shsilver (talk) 19:19, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'd arrange it by dates. —Tamfang (talk) 07:04, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed it. Did it by category (series, novels, collections, anthologies, short stories, poems, ...), then by date. Someone may want to check if I've labeled any novellas incorrectly as short stories. I think I contracted carpal tunnel syndrome on this one. N,N-dimethylpeptokryptamide (talk) 05:50, 3 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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	: I'd arrange it by dates. —[[User:Tamfang\|Tamfang]] ([[User talk:Tamfang\|talk]]) 07:04, 30 June 2011 (UTC)		: I'd arrange it by dates. —[[User:Tamfang\|Tamfang]] ([[User talk:Tamfang\|talk]]) 07:04, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

			:: I fixed it. Did it by category (series, novels, collections, anthologies, short stories, poems, ...), then by date. Someone may want to check if I've labeled any novellas incorrectly as short stories. I think I contracted carpal tunnel syndrome on this one. [[User:N,N-dimethylpeptokryptamide\|N,N-dimethylpeptokryptamide]] ([[User talk:N,N-dimethylpeptokryptamide\|talk]]) 05:50, 3 June 2012 (UTC)