Talk:Ian McDonald (British author)

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Review of Desolation Road by Jo Walton
Turner, Rodger. "The SF Site: Ian McDonald Reading List". SF Site. Retrieved 9 January 2018 – via sfsite.com.
Ian McDonald's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online
Interview at SFFWorld.com
Longlist of Warwick Prize for Writing for Brasyl
Ian McDonald at The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards
REVIEW : Be My Enemy
How I wrote the Everness series – Online Essay by Ian McDonald

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Date of Planesrunner?

Is 2012 correct as the pub date of Planesrunner? The Pyr edition seems to have a 2011 copyright date on it. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 17:24, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiquote link

This article is titled Ian McDonald (British author); his page on Wikiquote is Ian McDonald. As a result, the Wikiquote link does not link to his Wikiquote page. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thank you. Markjoseph125 (talk) 23:28, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The "Chaga Saga"

This section of the article reads like original research, or one critic's view of the text. At the very least, we need to extract matters of opinion from matters of fact. This is a big task, and one that I'm not qualified to do, as I've only read the first volume of the "saga". I hope someone takes up the challenge... RomanSpa (talk) 14:09, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with this sentiment. I removed the more blatantly opinionated phrases, which read like a book review. However, I left behind ones that maybe could be improved with verifiable citations. I tagged those with the Opinion template, so I hope others can hone in on them and fix the problem. — 173.60.134.88 (talk) 20:06, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have added Out on Blue Six (book) Suggestion

Would anybody be willing to help edit Out on Blue Six (book)? In particular I feel that the article requires more sources?

In particular I'm looking for the tweet in which Ian McDonald claimed that his book was the inspiration for the name of a 90's BBC Radio series.

This seems to be one of McDonald's least well received books, and other than Cory Doctorow, nobody seems to have given it much attention.--Salimfadhley (talk) 21:40, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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