Talk:List of BattleTech novels

Novel List
I think it would be good if we could get a brief synopsis of each novel in here. I'll start doing some myself in the next few days.

I know there are more German-language novels that have been released, but I don't have all of that information at the moment.

Also, I didn't have a month of release for some of the earlier novels, so if anyone can find this information out, it would be good to add it. Amazon occasionally has months listed for older books, but I don't think they are always accurate, so confirmation should be sought for any date found there.

--Patrick T. Wynne 20:36, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Release dates for the two newest books may need to be updated. Been doing some looking (was kinda excited about a new book) and couldn't find either of the books. Anyone know more information on those books? PedanticSophist (talk) 07:25, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Back-cover text
While the effort is appreciated, the back-cover text of the novels is copyrighted material owned by WizKids. As such, we cannot use it here on Wikipedia. All novel descriptions therefore need to be redone in the writer's own words, as can be seen in the examples currently on the page as of this posting. Please do not add that text back. --Patrick T. Wynne 23:54, 7 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Philosophical Question only - Does copyright apply to the back cover description of the book that is commonly used on sales and library sites. The Very purpose of the back cover description is to get the book noticed and then purchased.  Use of the materiel inside the book could have a detrimental impact sales of the book, while use of the advertising materiel on the back of the book could, conceivably, increase sales.  That has its own issues IRT using Wiki for advertising... grey area.  is there an existing wiki IRT copyright and dust cover/back cover material?  PerkinsC (talk) 12:42, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Adding timeline?
Looking over this list, particularly with the jump in time between the "Classic" series and the "Dark Age" series, would it be possible to add in the years the books cover? All of the BattleTech books I have have years and even months and days listed on each chapter, so it would be easier for someone reading this list to get an idea of chronological advancement rather than just when the book was released. Just an idea. Lostcosmonaut 18:16, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

older books
do not have years, like the legend of the jade phoenix or early gray death books. Cabadrin

Major Editing
I just worked on some major editing, connecting characters and successor states to their respective pages and adding in synopses of more books. I'll continue to work on this and flesh out more of the novels. Also added in an entry for gray death legion and solaris vii. Cabadrin

More Editing
I added in some more description on the twilight of the clans series of books, and did some more formatting \ linking with clan pages. Cabadrin


 * In the course of recording my 8,000 S_F novels for insurance, I am making minor corrections to ISBN and printing dates to this article. I forgot to log in, so the IP address, 75.130, ones are mine. I made notations as I edited. IdioT.SavanT.i4 (talk) 11:02, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Very large article size
I propose that we split the article into three different sections (Classic, Dark Age, and German-Language), accessible from a disambiguation page. The article is very long, and probably poses a difficulty to those with slower computers. I will place a "split" template at the top of the page until the matter is closed. Lenzi 18:15, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Disagee. 54kb is not very large, there is no need to split that list into three ones.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:37, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Disagree. Piotrus is right. Quality of information is also a factor when splitting articles and I don't think splitting them would do any good to inprove that as of now. Showers 18:50, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, the site certainly seems to feel that it's excessively large, hence the warning when you go to edit it. Agree. ATimson 04:59, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Though the list is somewhat lengthy, I agree with Piotrus that we should keep the list as a single page. The apparent length of the page could probably be shortened by making a few changes to the structure -- particularly not making each title a separate heading, and not duplicating entries for reprints.  I think it'd be good, though, to divide the list into Classic and Dark Age novels. Huwmanbeing &#9733; 11:49, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I've started to put the information into table form, which I think makes the list more easily digestible. As others have already noted, most of the novel synopses definitely need work since they sound like they were lifted verbatim from book covers.  Most are also a bit long -- just a brief sentence or two is probably all that a long list like this can support. Huwmanbeing &#9733; 16:02, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

German language novels
Are they translation of existing titles, or completely new novels, without English equivalent? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:19, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Article formatting
Due to the picture, the first set of books has the synopsis column very compressed (only about 15 characters wide,) making each book take up ~25 rows of space or more. The section for the Dark Age isn't constrained by the picture, and has a much more reasonable ~52 character width, allowing for reasonable paragraphs without extending the length of the entry.

I'm not sure how to correct this myself, maybe there could be a couple of line breaks, or there needs to be a new div header for the series of books. 68.97.202.205 (talk) 16:04, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

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