User talk:P64/FSF/Doona

Classification and assessment
reference: Category:Novels by Anne McCaffrey

Science fiction. Decision at Doona is classic science fiction but all 24 Pern books are marked   while Talk:Dragonsblood alone is marked    (the one of 24 with some explicit genetics). The same is true of Anne McCaffrey's other early f/sf books: Restoree, The Ship Who Sang, To Ride Pegasus, Dinosaur Planet, and The Crystal Singer are all marked fantasy; only The Ship is marked science fiction. That is too much momentum for this newcomer to stem.

Children's literature. Twenty of the 24 Pern books but none of those other five carry the {WikiProject Children's literature} banner. Doona is definitely for parents of young children!—alone among the 30 books named, in my offhand judgment. The important child in the featured family probably doesn't read yet (he's "incorrigible" and six years old). He is a prodigy learning the complex alien Hrruban language, which the prose features mainly in scattered nouns —rrla mda sser rroamal, etc. There are classic neologisms such as Alreldep for Alien Relations Department.

Importance. Low or nil for any WikiProject, I presume, and I dare specify that for {NovelsWikiProject}. --P64 (talk) 14:29, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Copy to article space
I anticipate copying this article from my User space, rather than moving it, and giving it the title "Decision at Doona". (I am the only contributor.)

What to copy from this User talk will be a judgment call. The project banner is intended for Talk space, of course, and it is here only because I once anticipated moving the article. --P64 (talk) 20:52, 30 November 2011 (UTC)