Talk:The Harper Hall Trilogy

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The Harper Hall Trilogy Talk Page

Post whatever you want here and just talk. Addrianna818 16:18, 9 February 2007 (UTC)Addrianna818Addrianna818 16:18, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Character List

Just wondering, is a character list needed? Although....it'd be really extensive, now that I think of it. But the three books all have characters, dragons, and firelizards lists in the end, so it might make it easier to create this list. (Sorry for the horrid wording.) Applejaxs 22:00, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Harper Hall of Pern (omnibus)

Last hour I started a major rewrite of this article. There was no wikipedia infobox (Template:Infobox book series) for the series or sub-series "Harper Hall Trilogy".

ref: Harper Hall series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Rather than any {{Infobox book series}}, I have provided {{Infobox book}} for The Harper Hall of Pern, the omnibus edition by Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club (1984 and 1997).

ref: The Harper Hall of Pern title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Remarkably, it's the only omnibus edition of the trilogy listed at ISFDB. --P64 (talk) 00:11, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Im not sure i understand, if its part of a series shouldnt you use the series info box?Millertime246 (talk) 21:13, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As I understand it, there is a series infobox designed for articles on book series; a book infobox designed for articles on books; a stories(?) infobox designed for articles on stories. I have not seen any articles with two kinds of infobox, although some articles do cover a book and a series with the same title, or a story and a book with the same title (or even all three?).

Dragonriders of Pern does not have any infobox, although its title fits the original trilogy, the 21 books published by Ballantine/Del Rey, and the 24 books that are commonly called the DoP series today.

(Welcome! I'm not sure precisely what you are asking. I recognize this reply must be inadequate and hope that it is helpful! I must run but I'll be back soon.) If you clarify I may edit the layout, delete this paragraph, edit the previous content --if we have no other contributor in the meantime. --P64 (talk) 21:36, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Consistency needed?

Dragonriders of Pern concerns the entire series as we know it today, 24 books by Anne or Todd McCaffrey; in other words, the three Harper Hall books originally published by Atheneum plus those 21 originally published by Ballantine Books or its Del Rey Books imprint. More generally at Wikipedia we place the Harper Hall books in the Dragonriders of Pern series without reservation.

Two sections at Talk:DoP are Talk:Dragonriders of Pern#Consistency needed: SF or Fantasy? and Talk:Dragonriders of Pern#Consistency needed? (questioning whether consistency is a virtue or a vice). Some discussion may be appropriate here, specific to the Harper Hall books in possible contrast with the others.

One observation or two: These three Pern books alone are shelved as children's books at my local public library. Our library edition (Simon Pulse, 2003) does not include any science fiction prologue, or any other explanation of Pern. --P64 (talk) 21:28, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]