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St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers

I'm currently researching and rewriting the WP article on Nat Schachner and spent weeks looking for biographical material on him. I couldn't find any sources that provided Schachner's personal background until stumbling upon the St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (1996) on the Internet Archive. Its profile also included a brief though helpful essay on Schachner, for which I'm grateful.

I was surprised, then, to find no reference to this work in the Science Fiction article. That's just an observation, not a criticism. My question is: Where would this book best be included in the article? A few possibilities come to mind, though there may be others:

As a citation for text in the article (current or added)?
As a general work under General and Cited Sources?
As an External link?

I'd appreciate feedback. And I'd also appreciate if anyone knows where I can find more information on Schachner. BTW, I've gathered links on the Internet Archive to as many of Schacher's stories as I could find (around 90% of his work). If you'd like to read his stories, check out his Bibliography. As for the article, so far I've only posted the lead, though I have most of the article written, and I'm currently in the process of adding the citations. Allreet (talk) 23:25, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"American science fiction" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect American science fiction has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 June 3 § American science fiction until a consensus is reached. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:44, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Korean science fiction" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Korean science fiction has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 June 16 § Korean science fiction until a consensus is reached. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:48, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Libertarian" science fiction

There is certainly a genealogy of anarchist/libertarian socialist/left libertarian sci-fi that isn't reflected in the article currently, thus making the "right liberatarian"/Heinlen emphasis there quite unbalanced, as if "libertarian sci fi" MEANS "right libertarian sci-fi". This can be fleshed out with references to Ursula K. Le Guin, Cory Doctorow, Margaret Killjoy, etc. My change adding the current series dedicated to left libertarian science fiction (i.e. anti-statist) out of anarchist publisher AK Press was reverted -- a source article for that is here https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=3328 -- as a possible conflict of interest given my history of also editing the AK Press page (as well as some of the pages linked below and writers mentioned). Since what seems to have flagged attention was that my edit was so narrowly focused, it could be further expanded with reference to the following legacy as well as to the writers above (and many others!):

Further articles about the legitimacy of anarchist sci fiction beyond AK Press as a source:

Radon (magazine) in Freedom (British newspaper): https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/06/09/interview-radon-and-the-new-wave-of-anarchist-sci-fi/,

PM Press: https://blog.pmpress.org/2019/08/15/anarchist-science-fiction-essential-novels/

Anarchist Studies journal: https://anarchiststudiesnetwork.org/science-fiction-fantasy/

Institute for Anarchist Studies: https://anarchiststudies.org/tag/scifi/

Fifth Estate (periodical): https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/403-spring-2019/anarchist-sci-fi/