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Relevant for inclusion?

I'm just reading Flashforward, and found it amusing/spooky that he mentions Pope Benedict XVI in the 2009 setting.

Benedict is the most common Pope name, so if you're going to name future pope that's the obvious bet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.144.16.56 (talk) 10:18, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's simply false; at the time he wrote that, John was the most common, followed by Gregory: see List of Popes. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:49, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia

Ralph Vicinanza, presumably Robert's agent, appears in Humans, taking out a neandertal to a book deal lunch. ps Ralph deserves an article.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 07:28, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Requested edit - COI

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Sawyer is about to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Winnipeg, as stated by them here. I think that belongs under the "Major awards" section of this article, as should his Honorary D. Litt from Laurentian University (I can rustle up a source for that upon request). I don't want to add this myself, as I know him personally, so editing this article for anything other than error correction would violate WP:COS. So. Anyone agree with me about adding the honorary doctorates to the article? cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 06:52, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Makes sense to me. I've added it, but it didn't quite seem to fit under the awards section, so I've included it in an earlier part. No hassles if someone wants to move it around. - Bilby (talk) 00:33, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

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==Assessment== Start-class - almost no sources (I found his bio), little discussion of his work, too much biographical detail. Lots of room for improvement. Avt tor 08:59, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 08:59, 1 February 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 04:37, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

First publication of End of an Era

Currently the Bibliography section gives this as "(Ace, 1994)". However the (not reliable, because user edited) ISFDB lists the New English Library edition as published October 1994, citing the SF world's 'Journal of Record' Locus for this date, and the Ace edition as November 1994, and the (usually reliable) Encyclopedia of Science Fiction also credits NEL's edition as the first.

I have copies of both editions: the Ace (c) page is dated November 1994 and claims "never previously published", and the NEL's merely "First published in Great Britain in 1994" as is each's habitual style. I can believe that the Ace edition was intended to appear first (Sawyer's 'Acknowledgements', identical in both, mention only Ace editorial assistance), but Locus is highly reliable and the EoSF does not rely on ISFDB without good corroboration. I could well believe that some schedule rearrangement led to NEL's edition inadvertently appearing first.

Does anybody have another source to cross-check and determine whether the article should be amended to "(New English Library 1994)"? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.195.174.88 (talk) 19:23, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]