Talk:Timothy Zahn

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[edit] The firebird

Hotlinks to Stravinsky... I doubt that was intended. --K D Faber

I'm removing "The Firebird(1979)" from the list of Zahn's novels as I am certain it must be a mistake. It only comes up in search results that look like bibliographies all erroneously copied from the same source.

I think that the mistake was made because the alphabetically close "George Zebrowski" actually published a book called "The Firebird" in 1979.

This page http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/bibliography/fsfstorieswhoz01.htm references Zebrowski's "The Firebird", referring to it as a young adult novel.

These other bibliography sites are not to be trusted. This one http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?181740 claims that Zahn published something called "Perfect Joy of St. Francis" in 1974, a year before he actually launched his writing career.

This whole thing is both hilarious and a bit unsettling.

[edit] Autistic

If most of His characters are in that one form of slowly building information... that sounds vaguely autistic... --Anon.

[edit] Writing Style

Everything in the writing style segment of the entry is centered in his Star Wars books. As good as those books are, they only form a small part of his writings. Is there anyone who has read his other books or can take other views and bind them into a cohisive entry? TychoZzyx

I've read the Thrawn Trilogy, I've also read the Cascade Point collection, Spinnaret, A Coming of Age, The Icarus Hunt, Angelmass, Manta's Gift, and The Green and the Gray. But anything I'd be putting in the entry would be original research. The Literate Engineer 02:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Why bothering to post that? Really, I don't see how your descriptions of Zahn's writings would be OR if they are neutral and unbiased. -Fnlayson 04:20, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
    • To make the point that without reliable third-party sources, we can't put together any cohesive entry, no matter how much of an expert any of us may think we are on the matter. My description would be just that: my descriptions. That absolutely would be original research. The Literate Engineer 17:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
    • The whole style of that section screams of OR, which is why I have added the OR tag. StephenBuxton 11:27, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

The entire section should be removed. How is any of that original research encyclopedic? --mc machete 00:26, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars Insider

Didn't Zahn write a brief serialized story in the Star Wars Insider fan club magazine? I seem to remember it was a Clone Wars era story, but I don't see it listed under "Star Wars Works". Twineball 00:37, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Not likely anything from Clone war era written in the 1990s. See Wookieepedia:Timothy Zahn page for more Star Wars details. -Fnlayson 00:57, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
    • Who said anything about the 90s? I'm talking 2003-ish. Twineball 20:25, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
    • I found it anyway. I was thinking about "Changing Seasons" in Insider 76 and 77 in 2004. Twineball 20:28, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Two subsections

Why are there two subsections labelled "Other Novels"? Should these be melded together? --chiefhoser 20:18, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

  • No. The first one is under the Star Wars group, meaning other Star Wars novels. I'll try to clarify that. -Fnlayson 20:39, 8 March 2007 (UTC)