Talk:Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

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Length[edit]

872 pp? Really? — SethTisue (talk) 06:28, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it's grown. 1,280 pages, 348,300 words. ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kdring (talk • contribs) 18:23, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's shrunk now according to [Amazon]: 625 pages. Aknyra (talk) 12:10, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I guess that makes sense. The count I had was based on a Word document, 1.5 spaced, 14-point Times New Roman type. I can see that this could condense down when actually setting/printing in book form, though I'm totally unfamiliar with the process. It still clocks in at more than 348,000 words, though. Kdring (talk) 01:49, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Corrections[edit]

Though I am pleased and grateful that Wiki feels the novel is worth discussing, nevertheless the article contains two incorrect statements. I hope someone will fix them: I wrote an early draft of a novel, then called *In the Valley of the Nest of Spiders*, and, when the Cal Arts journal *Black Clock* asked me for some fiction, I excerpted the opening, did a small amount of rewriting to give it a feeling of closure (at the time Black Clock did not like designating pieces of fiction as excerpts because they felt too many readers would not read them and want to wait for the whole work), and it was published in *Black Clock #7*. Over the next years I finished and rewrote the novel several times. (During that time I emended the novel's title to *Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders*.) The complete novel was published by Magnus Books in April 2012. Also: Though John Del Gaizo did a cover for the book, Magnus Books did not use it. The cover on the published novel is an anonymous cover from a commercial cover house that, at the time, did all the covers for Magnus. In short, the novel was NOT expanded from a short story. The story was the opening section excerpted from the novel. The current cover is anonymous. As the author of the book, I'd appreciate someone fixing these. The way it reads now it misrepresents the way I work. Since this comes from me, I can't imagine anyone calling it "original research." You have to have some baseline between fact and fancy. (SRD) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.245.81.184 (talk) 12:17, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have applied both corrections. SethTisue (talk) 23:11, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Subjective analysis in the plot summary[edit]

The final sentence of the plot summary contains a very subjective opinion of what constitutes science fiction, and how this novel fails to fall into that editor's personal definition of science fiction. ("the novel does not exactly fit within the realm of science fiction.") It should be removed from the summary. Chaotic22 (talk) 20:53, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]