Timeline for Children's sci-fi collection - Alien orthodontist
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 15:18 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 13, 2021 at 18:14 | comment | added | Alfred | @user14111 I gave you a bounty, since I think your answer should have been accepted. And also because your advices have been extremely helpful to me in several occasions. Following your suggestion I also gave a bounty to an answer by DavidW, completely unrelated to "Ado", but that also happened to be obviously correct but not accepted, about "Discworld". The other answer on "Ado" I just accepted. It is very nice to find helpful people like you. Thanks for all ! | |
| Dec 13, 2021 at 9:52 | history | bounty ended | Alfred | ||
| Nov 24, 2021 at 13:41 | comment | added | Alfred | @user14111 So I now have read all the parts of Prostho Plus that are outside the four stories above that I had just read or reread. A lot of fun. I wonder if Piers Anthony already had the part on Electrolus in mind when he wrote Getting through University. If not, he did a fantastic job to write, for the 1971 fix-up, the part on Electrolus in coherence with what he had already written in 1968. The end is so sweet.... Thanks so much for giving me the reference ! | |
| Nov 23, 2021 at 22:46 | comment | added | Alfred | @user14111 Thanks a lot ! I'll do it tomorrow (french time; it is almost midnight here, bedtime for me) | |
| Nov 23, 2021 at 21:27 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 23, 2021 at 21:18 | comment | added | user14111 | @Alfred The novel Prostho Plus can be "borrowed" from the Internet Archive; it's free, but registration is required. Link: archive.org/details/prosthoplus00anth | |
| Nov 23, 2021 at 20:47 | comment | added | Alfred | @user14111 Ah, yes, I finally found it. The (paper) page is numbered 160, but is only 155 of the electronic document. I did look at every page till the end, but only on a small format to have 12 pages together, and I missed it. Thanks a lot !!!!! What about the Electrolus story ? Only the extremely short allusion in Getting through University, or is there an extended one in the fix-up novel ? I only read the four stories you mention above, in Internet Archive. I don't know how to access the full novel. | |
| Nov 23, 2021 at 19:18 | comment | added | user14111 | @Alfred Typo, for p. 100 read p. 160. | |
| Nov 23, 2021 at 17:32 | comment | added | Alfred | @user14111 One more question. I just wonder whether I finished reading "None but I" on the Internet Archive. Page 52 of "Worlds of IF" ends on the line, by the Jann : "And I could not tell thee," and followed by the remark (Please turn to page 100) but page 100 is in the middle of the story "The Seeds of Gonyl". I haven't found the end of the Jann's sentence, cut off after a comma. Any idea of where to find this end ? The story is almost finished, somehow, Dr. Dillingham almost assured to live to the ripe age of 94, unless he dies of sickness or accident before. Still a bit unsatisfactory. | |
| Nov 23, 2021 at 16:44 | comment | added | Alfred | @user14111 However there is no story mentioned between In the Jaws of Danger and Getting Through University, but in the timeline of ths stories it is clear that Dr. Dillingham visited a planet called Electrolus between these two stories. So were the event there never published in detail (but just very rapidly sketched in Getting Through University), or did Piers Anthony write a more detailed version in his 1971 fix-up novel ? Thanks ! | |
| Nov 23, 2021 at 16:35 | comment | added | Alfred | In isfdb, under "Series: Dr. Dillingham" they mention Prostho Plus (1967); In the Jaws of Danger (1967); Getting Through University (1968); None But I (1969); Monarch (1970); Prostho Plus (1971) ; Ouch! (1974) Now I understand that Prostho Plus (1971) is a fix-up of the previous short stories. Not quite clear to me what Prostho Plus (1967) is, since at best only "Jaws of Danger" was published before. Moreover about "Ouch" they mention it is taken from the beginning of Prostho Plus. Now in "Jaws" there is a very loud "Ouch", by the prince whale, so that could make sense. | |
| Jul 23, 2019 at 9:20 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | @owenwright: goodreads.com/book/show/2324166.Extraterrestrials was where I encountered it first. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 22:55 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 29, 2018 at 11:38 | comment | added | owen wright | The story was indeed prostho plus! Thank you for your help. I'm just looking for the collection of short stories this was a part of now. A collection of sci fi shorts for kids that is, not a collection of dental scifi. | |
| Dec 29, 2018 at 11:33 | history | answered | user14111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |