Talk:The Girl Who Heard Dragons

The Girl Who Heard Dragons
Author	Anne McCaffrey
Illustrator	Judy King-Rieniets
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Dragonriders of Pern
Genre	Science Fiction novella
Publisher	Cheap Street
Publication date	1986?; (c)1985
Media type	Print (hardcover)
ISBN	0-941826-16-3
Preceded by	—
Followed by	—

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Category[edit]

I've placed this new article in Category: Novels by Anne McCaffrey for the moment, although it is actually a collection of short stories. If anyone can provide a better category, please change it. Gubernatoria (talk) 16:01, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Two years later it is in two substantial categories (after removing that one 2011-10-21). And it is in Template:Works by Anne McCaffrey, which is transcluded in some articles about her works.

Probably it should be a classified Stub (science fiction, fantasy, children's literature?). I think that waits for a WikiProject to claim it. --P64 (talk) 14:26, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

After reading Wikipedia:WikiProject Books quickly, I have determined that outsiders should feel free to mark the article {story-stub} and the Talk page with {WPBooks}, need info-box. Others will eventually place it in sub- categories and projects as appropriate. --P64 (talk) 15:02, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

After major revision I have removed {story-stub}. If/when some project secures its claim, the quality grade will be at least Start. --P64 (talk) 19:12, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Girl novella[edit]

See also below, section {Infobox book} The Girl (novella). --P64 2011-10-21

Here we currently list the title story thus:

"The Girl Who Heard Dragons" (1986) (a Pern story, appears in A Gift of Dragons)

which I will revise thus:

"The Girl Who Heard Dragons" (1986, Cheap Street) (a Pern novella also collected in A Gift of Dragons)

The stub Cheap Street lists The Girl as one "fine book" published by that small press, linked to this article without explanation. Evidently 1986 refers to the Cheap Street edition of the novella.

These articles Cheap Street and The Girl Who Heard Dragons are both stubs, nearly orphans, unclaimed by any WikiProject. I am not a member of any pertinent project and don't know their procedures. I'll leave one notice at Science fiction, although Children's literature is a more frequent banner on talk pages for books by Anne McCaffrey. --P64 (talk) 14:26, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We still need citation for the Cheap Street Girl too. --P64 (talk) 20:27, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the Cheap Street first edition see below, {Infobox book} The Girl (novella). --P64 (talk) 16:28, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Previous publication of other stories[edit]

Now I have much revised the article, especially regarding previous publication of the stories collected. ISFDB Publication Listing indicates that five were original to the collection, but I suppose that database suffers from missing data and a previous editor was correct in giving earlier dates for all but two. So I have handled the discrepancy by marking "two were original" and three of the stories {citation needed}. --P64 (talk) 19:12, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Data source ISFDB[edit]

I have deleted my comment from a few days ago, having written th source into the article with brief instructions (ISFDB Publication Listing). --P64 2011-10-21

{Infobox book} The Girl (novella)[edit]

This is a draft {Infobox book} for the first edition novella, not the collection that is the subject of the article.

Sidenotes —not footnotes

Citation (HvdB): Hans van der Boom (2006-01-14), "Collecting Highlight (10) – The Girl Who Heard Dragons". Meeting of Minds (McCaffrey forums).[1]

CM:later in the same thread #6, #15-16

Numbers: 62 Publisher's Edition, signed and one-quarter leatherbound (image at HvdB); 139 Collector's Edition, signed and clothbound, slipcover; 14 extra presentation copies (reported by CM)

illustrator

CM photo shows clearly hyphenated print and signature

Judy King-Rieniets at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database; Judy King Rieniets at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
cover_artist = same

HvdB shows Anne McCaffrey's copy of the one-quarter leatherbound Publisher's Edition, including a humble drawing on the cover.

release_date: ISFDB gives no publication data but the date, in its tabular contents for the 1994 collection; HvdB reports "1985, New Castle, Virginia" printed in Anne's copy of the Publisher's Edition; reports 1986 from "Hargreaves, p. 98"; CM photograph shows 1985 copyright dates
ISBN

from the photograph by CM

do slightly different special editions have distinct ISBN?
preceded_by; followed_by

The familiar 24 books do not include small editions of novellas later collected or incorporated, such as this edition of "The Girl". The edition followed seven or perhaps eight of the 24, published in the same year(?) as Nerilka's Story (8th), month unknown (and year uncertain).