Talk:Michael Shea (American author)

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Re: 'American'-> US which User:Rossami did on this page:

It's hard to conceive of any circumstances under which "American writer" or "American filmmaker" or any such construction could be "ambiguous"; i.e., not mean an inhabitant of the United States of America. I'm Canadian, and I think so! American is just the adjective referring to people from the USA in that context. It is 100% pure English phrasing, and 'US writer' or 'US filmaker' sounds weak by contrast.

Were it possible to confuse this with another meaning of 'American' (an inhabitant of South America, a native American Indian) it would NOT be in THIS context where it's clearly referring to the country of origin in the same sense as 'Canadian writer', 'British filmmaker', etc.

Encyclopedias use "American xxx", including the Britannica (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=84515&tocid=0&query=kate%20chopin&ct= -- "American novelist and short story writer"); Encyclodepia.com: (http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/c/chopin-k1.asp -- "American author..."); The Columbia encyclopedia (http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chopin-K.html -- "American author"), etc. etc.

So I'm reverting those pages.

See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (US vs American). Lots of people disagree. Even if only a few people disagree, why would we deliberately choose the less precise term? But rather than argue about it here, I am only going to insist that you pipe the link. Rossami 16:29, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

is he Robert Shea's cousin?[edit]

Robert Shea, also called Bob Shea, is also a fantasy author, and co-author of "Illuminatus!" with Robert Anton Wilson. Is he related to Michael Shea? Many claimed he was his cousin. Does someone know more? 93.219.156.236 (talk) 08:15, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lovecraft homage, no pastiche[edit]

Among other things in one edit yesterday, I cut the parenthetical remark and punctuation (blue) from this paragraph.

(quote) Shea followed up with The Color out of Time (1984), (an homage to H. P. Lovecraft's "The Colour out of Space" in which Shea only borrows the setting background, not attempting to pastiche Lovecraft's style); and In Yana, the Touch of Undying (1985), about a vain opportunist's search for immortality in a land of fable.

If verifiable, this belongs in the article somehow. (Indeed, such material re Lovecraft and other writers --Smith, Vance, King-- is important for this article to say better and to verify.) Here the expression is unusually clumsy but there may be no hyperbole, so my hasty edit summary is misleading at best.

(I did cut one great hyperbole as summarized --Polyphemus (1987): "in which many of the stories were multiple Hugo Award and Nebula Award finalists"-- but otherwise I re-wrote and down-wrote hyperbole, so to speak. For example I specified two World Fantasy Awards for "multiple" and distinguished those from many awards runners up.) --P64 (talk) 14:07, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Awards[edit]

By reference to the Locus Index |ref name=SFawards-shea| i added two "runners up", 1975 British Fantasy and 1981 Locus, and i marked these two {citation needed}.

2005 British Fantasy Award (The Growlimb)
2005 Bram Stoker Award nominee, Horror Writers Association (The Growlimb)

Now I have deleted the quoted pair. Our linked article seems to cover 2005 BFA and does not mention Shea or Growlimb. HWA's list "... Nominees & Winners" claims to be complete from 1987 and does not mention Shea or Growlimb.

... Shea's official website "Bio" provides a list of "Awards" that was previously copied here without specific acknowledgment. For the 2005 honors it provides bad internet links. --P64 (talk) 17:42, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Editor S. T. Joshi[edit]

(quote)

Copping Squid and Other Mythos Tales (Perilous Press, 2010), series editor S. T. Joshi

"Series editor" is my re-wording based on his biography. I am unsure about the role and whether we ordinarily list it, whatever it is. I think the book is a collection of works all by Shea. Anyway, if it doesn't belong in a bibliography listing, it suggests that Joshi may be a Shea editor who should be mentioned in the biography. --P64 (talk) 17:42, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Unpublished novels[edit]

(quote) Novels by Shea as-yet-unsold include Cannyharme, Momma Durtt and The Plunderers.

I have cut that from the article. Many people have written books and not sold them. If notable this needs explanation and source(s). --P64 (talk) 17:42, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sources[edit]

Almost all of section "Life and work" lacks any specific source. The source for nearly all must be Cox, or something at the official website, or something not cited here.

The five numbered references that I have added are relevant pages or linked groups of pages in three bibliographic databases if I may stretch bibliography to cover literary awards. None of them provides any biographical information beyond basic data. (At least one library catalog supports the 1946 birth year.)

The three older references which I have merely expanded (now numbers 4, 5, 8) are also narrow in scope and not biographical. --P64 (talk) 17:42, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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