User:P64/FSF/Short story collection

Some articles on story collections begin as a lead and list of contents without any summaries or other discussions of the stories. Stubs commonly develop beyond that point to attach some previous publication data, often as here
 * Story 1
 * Story 2
 * Story 3
 * Story 1, original to the collection
 * Story 2 —Analog Oct 1967
 * Story 3 (previously published in Legends II ...)

Now I wonder whether the list should be retained, forever, as a holder of previous publication data, at least where the previous history is simple.

Markup
Note that we can use bold face for the first part of "Story 1, original to the collection" but we cannot use either ";" or "===" markup for the story title alone, because those codes govern entire lines of display. Instead "original to the collection" is a leftover sentence fragment.

Story 1 original to the collection

original to the collection
 * Story 1

Story 1
original to the collection

Four ways
Now consider a partly real example.
 * Story 1, original to the collection
 * The Survey: P.E.R.N. (Amazing Stories, Sep 1993)
 * Story 3

What happens when the story titles acquire story synopses? Here are four styles for providing the same information about previous publication --four ways of handling that fragment. The first is the simply "the list, grown up". The others are by three different editors at First Fall. Of course there are other ways to combine heading styles with the three data styles, or to recombine the elements of the three data styles given here: small size, indentation, and incorporation in prose.


 * The Survey: P.E.R.N. (published as "The P.E.R.N. Survey" in Amazing Stories, September 1993)

A team of FSP scientists scouts a distant planet. Time is too short to resolve some mysteries, but they find it safe for human settlement, with resources to supports residents but inadequate for commercial exploitation. Their report is coded P.E.R.N.c meaning Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible, recommended for colonization.

The Survey: P.E.R.N. —published as "The P.E.R.N. Survey" in Amazing Stories, September 1993

A team of FSP scientists scouts a distant planet. Time is too short to resolve some mysteries, but they find it safe for human settlement, with resources to supports residents but inadequate for commercial exploitation. Their report is coded P.E.R.N.c meaning Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible, recommended for colonization.

The Survey: P.E.R.N.
A team of FSP scientists scouts a distant planet. Time is too short to resolve some mysteries, but they find it safe for human settlement, with resources to supports residents but inadequate for commercial exploitation. Their report is coded P.E.R.N.c meaning Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible, recommended for colonization.
 * Published as "The P.E.R.N. Survey" in Amazing Stories, September 1993

The Survey: P.E.R.N.
The story was first published as "The P.E.R.N. Survey" in Amazing Stories, September 1993. In the story, a team of FSP scientists scouts a distant planet. Time is too short to resolve some mysteries, but they find it safe for human settlement, with resources to supports residents but inadequate for commercial exploitation. Their report is coded P.E.R.N.c meaning Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible, recommended for colonization.

First Fall, July 2011
Contents

* The Survey: P.E.R.N. (originally published as "The P.E.R.N. Survey" in Amazing September 1993, and in book form)[1]

A team of scientists scouts a planet for colonization potential, and labels it "P.E.R.N." (Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible), noting the overlapping circles and lack of higher lifeforms which later colonists would come to know as the telltale signs of Thread.

* The Dolphins' Bell (originally published in 1993)

Mariner and starship captain Jim Tillek organizes and leads the evacuation of Pern's Southern Continent to Fort Hold in the North, aided by the intelligent dolphins and one particular dolphineer along the way. (Runs contemporaneously with the conclusion of the novel Dragonsdawn)

* The Ford of Red Hanrahan

Red Hanrahan (father of dragonrider Sorka Hanrahan) leaves Fort Hold some years after the start of Threadfall and founds a new Hold at Rua Atha ("Red's Ford"), which would later become "Ruatha Hold" of the Ninth Pass.

* The Second Weyr

Young queenrider Torene influences Weyrleaders Sean Connell and Sorka Hanrahan to allow the founding of several new Weyrs; she later mates with M'hall (Mihall/Michael Connell), the Weyrleaders' son (the custom of "shortening" dragonriders' names is also explained here) and the two become the first Weyrleaders of the newly-founded Benden Weyr.

* Rescue Run (originally published in Analog v111 #10, August 1991, and in book form)[2]

Craven colonist Stev Kimmer, having taken over the Honshu stakehold in the South, manages to convince a rescue party led by Lieutenant Ross Benden - nephew of the Admiral - that his group are the only eleven humans left alive. Fooled by the lack of visible power from the North (as 50 years have gone by and already the level of technology used has dropped), Benden removes Kimmer and his party from the planet (not without difficulty, as Kimmer is treacherous and greedy), and places Pern under interdict, forbidding any humans from travelling there lest they spread Thread to other systems.