Talk:Daniel Keys Moran

Under appreciated

Daniel Keys Moran is an under appreciated author, who's books "The Last Dancer" and "The Long Run" are superb story telling. I thoroughly recommend them.

I was fortunate enough to be lent an imported copy of The Last Dancer, by a friend of mine. It was a story so clear and well written it got me interested in reading stories again. It had been years since I'd read a novel, instead focussing on study books and other non-fiction. The Last Dancer was a complete eye-opener as to how an author could create a complex universe. I can't wait to read more.

—Julian 2005 April 25 (UTC)

Cyberpunk

Removed "(written long before it was called cyberpunk)" from section on concepts in the Continuing Time series. His first published story appeared in 1982. The term Cyberpunk was coined in 1983. —Sir Robin

Neutrality

The neutrality of this article is disputed. —Rmhermen 15:34, 2006 May 3 (UTC)

I was curious as to what prompted the NPOV tagging of this article. If anything I would have thought it was still too short to have a point of view. —MJBurrage 06:32, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Not short at all, nor encyclopedic -most of the article is a catalog - and all shot through with direct signed responses from the subject himself. Rmhermen 13:03, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I had meant that the main (first) section was too short to have a POV. The two sections I made significant contributions to were:

• The section on his co-authors — the only information I could find was his comments (neither of them is separately published). I had thought that making it clear that the information was from his comments, would satisfy POV issues. I could rephrase some of the information to be more third person, but I thought leaving the source was more up front.
• The list of works — is that level of detail inappropriate on Wikipedia? The two Star Wars related quotes are from a description of said work that used to be on his website. The third was from an e-mail on a forum he contributes to regularly. (were it from anybody else, I would have left it off as un-sourced)

Thank you for the input :-)

—MJBurrage 15:01, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I have rewritten the information described to be more encyclopedic, leaving only three quotes.

• The one about why a story was published under a pseudonym. (The only explanation we have for a story in-between two using his name.)
• The two about his co-authors. (There is no other information publicly available, and I think paraphrasing Moran without the context could be perceived as deceptive.)

—MJBurrage 18:44, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

The neutrality of this page was rightfully disputed. Please reference the Wikipedia contributor Rich Burridge's own blog, which references his own entry for this page as "something he just read" in January, 2008. It was something that he, himself, just wrote here on this page.

http://blogs.sun.com/richb/entry/daniel_keys_moran

This is Burridge's blog dated January, 2008. As I said, it references something that Burridge, himself wrote - phrasing it as if he'd just read what someone else wrote, although the initial author - was himself. Yes, law enforcement has used this Wikipedia entry - if Mr. Burridge has any care to what that might signify, although I am certain that he does not. You may vandalize my entry or information about my mother freely. It changes nothing of what we've done. No one in the real world believes Wikipedia. Because of things like this. ASterling (talk) 04:33, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Mr. Sterling, I removed the portion of your comment about your personal dealings with Moran, as they seemed to violate the Wikipedia policy on biographies of living persons. As for Rich Burridge, I see no evidence that he ever contributed to this page. —MJBurrage^(T•C) 07:31, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Things that need to be included

Apparently, the currently list of works is terribly out-dated, see http://danielkeysmoran.blogspot.com/2010/09/560-comments-need-to-be-moderated.html for reference. I would do it myself, but I still lack a complete overview of all published Continuing Time books and short-stories.JaredThornbridge (talk) 10:06, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

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OR and NPOV

The entirety of the section "Concepts in the Continuing Time" seems to be original research. I suggest it should be cut to a minimum.

It also possibly slides toward violating WP:NPOV with wording that suggests opinions, rather than facts, such as "an interesting twist on non-violent protest" (interesting to whom?") and " Surprisingly, the most significant battle in the series is a..." (surprising?) NumberC35 (talk) 14:12, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Agreed Dan Bloch (talk) 19:16, 3 September 2022 (UTC)