Talk:Michael McCollum

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I have re-created this page, initially based on the German wikipedia page. McCollum's books have been published in audio form by Audible Inc, which means he is no longer self-published. He is also mentioned in "Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature" by Brian M. Stableford, Scarecrow Press, 2004. Donn Edwards (talk) 09:43, 25 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - If the Germans think he is wiki-notable, then the English-speakers should too. Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:28, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Got to. The edition I'm holding is a Bantam book, a div of Random House. That in itself doesn't make him notable, but he's not exclusively self-published. And it's under the Del Rey brand, which have been the titles (some of them reprints) which the scifi authors read. Lester Del Rey knew scifi from the ground up. None of this holds water in a wiki-debate, but his writing is solid, entertaining, classic rockets-n-blasters stuff. If this article gets deleted, it will only be recreated in a few months by another fan. Just mho. Rags (talk) 08:16, 4 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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