40,000 books ! {plus SciFi vs Romance DE duel}

Post by **wolfspirit** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:06 pm

laurie wrote:Can I mix in a little Star Wars?

DE Wars: Episode V: The Romancian Strikes Back

Romance - 4495
SciFi - 4484

18 of that last update in teh romance column are my fault, am working through my series block, and I have many books to renterthat are romance/something.

but I'm a genre neutral person in general, merely switching my entry order to benefit one side or the other.

wolfspirit

Post by **laurie** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:24 pm

I wondered who put in the others - I only added 32.

Muchas gracias, amigo!

Post by **laurie** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:04 pm

Added a few more.

Another day, another dollar. (God, I wish...)

Romance - 4521
SciFi - 4487

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:09 am

i have a list of about 130 titles that are fantasy or scifi...i don't have enough free time to put that many in, so would someone like to take a chunk off my hands?

Post by **StefanY** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:35 am

I'd love to help, but I've already got a list of Star Wars books that I'm committed to adding. If you haven't found a taker when I get closer to finishing, I'd be happy to help you out.

Stefan

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:20 am

any help, any time, would be welcome. i've gone and gotten ISBNs from amazon for most of them, all i have left for that is my stack of marion zimmer bradley. my main problem is not knowing whether these books are scifi or fantasy, because i've never read them and am not familiar with the authors.

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:34 am

You can usually eyeball it, based on reading the amazon blurb.

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:42 am

Laurie: For the next few days I'll be stuck filling in the remaining fields of stuff I entered yesturday, so you've got a few days to build up a lead on me.

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:44 am

that requires time!

i'll hammer away at it, but in the meantime would it be safe to say that gordon dickson is scifi and christopher stasheff is fantasy?

Kilgore Trout · Post by **Kilgore Trout** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:45 am

Romance - 4525 (+4)
SciFi - 4506 (+19)

Most if not all of the SciFi increase was my burning of midnight oil. My general thrust on bestsellers and new releases still favors Romance, but since that is in pretty good shape I've also started looking specifically for new and popular SciFi. I'm not bypassing any Romance, just adding resources that emphasize SciFi.

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:09 pm

Scotty: Jim, the Heisenberg Compensators need replacing. I'll have ta take tha mains off line, and we'll be at impulse speeds for a wee bit.
Jerk: Feh. {resumes oogling the "The Girls of Starfleet" special edition of Hustler Magazine}
Chekov: Keptin, about my proposal to release Lt. Trout ...
Jerk: Eh ?
Chekov: Keptin, I vas very careful in my inwestigayshun. Starfleet Intelligence reports that Trout's working for them, and that he has full authority to feed certain information to tha Romancians. In fact, he has a level 5 security clearance - that says a lot.
Jerk: Five ? Wait a sec ... I only have level 2 !
Chekov: Your clearance was demoted last year, due to all those bar and gambling debts on Riesa, and that business with the goats on Epsilon Eridani 4.
Jerk:

Jerk: Ok, cut Trout loose.
Sulu: {whispers} That's like catch & release fishing.
Jerk: I HEARD THAT SULU !
Sulu: {whispers} I hope the Excelsior is done soon ... I gotta get off this ship.

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:56 pm

i'm a newbie here, brad, so i gotta ask...which one of those characters is you?

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:07 pm

Why, Jerk of course.

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:56 pm

To explain: there was an unfortunate transporter accident a few episodes back that caused me to split personalities. Naturally, the half of me that got all my baser impulses promptly phasered my better half (the one that was well mannered & competent).

He had it coming to him.

/me resumes reading "The Girls of Starfleet Academy".

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:30 pm

Incidentally, I've been mixing some real trek trivia into all this:

* The cross circuiting to B reference (ST:TOS).
* The prefix code reference (ST:Wrath of Khan)
* Sulu (George Takei) having come out of the closet (I just saw him at ICON-25, where he talked about coming out and being on Howard Stern's show)
* The Girls of Starfleet {there are rumors that Kim Cattrall snapped some nude photos of herself, in vulcan attire, on the bridge of the Enterprise, back before filming began}
* The split personality thingee {indirect spoof on "Mirror Mirror" episode of ST:TOS}.

All in good fun.

Ok, back on topic ... I managed to get a few ST:SCE entries filled in, but nothing that boosts SciFi's total yet.

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:34 pm

yeah, i caught some of those references. highly entertaining stuff! i'm gonna have to get some other people in here to read those little bits...

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:47 pm

... and of course the "Heisenberg Compensators" is a longstanding inside joke in the realm of quantum physics ... it pokes fun at Heisenberg's "Uncertainty principle", which cannot (by definition) be compensated for.

Ok, that's enough didacticism for one day.

By all means bring some friends - that's why we're here. To have fun, enjoy & discuss books, and help make the database a better place for people who like to do the same.

Kilgore Trout · Post by **Kilgore Trout** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:15 pm

Romance - 4526 (+1)
SciFi - 4526 (+20 {17 mine})

Tied up!

(But there's a "jug-o-wine-load" of Diane Palmer going in. I can't watch; I'm going to have lunch and console myself with Dr. Moreau.)

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:27 pm

The other 3 were broken genre tags I fixed (along with about 15 others for fantasy and action).

Thanks, KT ... we'll beat those dirty romancians yet.

Post by **laurie** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:22 pm

Kilgore Trout wrote:But there's a "jug-o-wine-load" of Diane Palmer going in.

The "loaf of bread" went in too.

Still working on "and Thou".

Post by **Kvetch** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:26 pm

I'm sure Brad would volunteer to fill in as your 'And Thou', although I fear he might not be too good at singing.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:56 pm

laurie wrote:
wolfspirit wrote:Although the whole Herlequin company puts us in trouble.
I haven't made a serious foray into the Harlequins yet. The only ones I've entered are the first books of authors who later went on to other publishers.

I, however, have been making serious in-roads into the Harlequin family of imprints over on IBList

We'll get them all eventually. Bloody Harlequin.

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:13 pm

Oh, well gosh, I guess laurie should hold off on the harlequins then, to avoid duplication, right ?

/me pumps fist as TB hipchecks Laurie away from a large chunk of data that would otherwise threaten SciFi.

YES !

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:27 pm

You're probably right ... I think the last time I did any prolonged singing was back on this one night when I'd gotten utterly blitzed during my senior year in college, and a friend and I did a truly god-awful rendition of "Hotel California" (by The Eagles) during karoke night at one of my regular watering holes. I was more hammered than a jamaican steel drum, and let's just say the tape (which I still have someplace) was pretty horrific. Use your imagination to cook up the worst possible drunken bellowing in time to the music - it won't be far off the mark.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:43 pm

Oh no.... she can feel free

I've started with the Silhouette Special Edition series and I've done some of the Harlequin Intrigue series (and I've recently entered the last year's worth of Harlequin American Romance). Everything else is fair game

Have at it, Laurie

Brad, each imprint (such as Silhouette Intimate Moments, Harlequin Temptation, etc) has SEVERAL thousand books in it. The SMALLEST imprint at this point, I believe, is 1200 books

Oh, and Laurie? I've found that http://www.echopaperbacks.com is a great source for listings. They're not complete, by any means, but they're a great start