h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.h2g2.com/A454079

Luke Rhinehart wrote:
The Dice Man
Adventures of Wim
Search for the Dice Man
Book of the Die
Book of Est
Long Voyage Back
Matari

If anyone's read 'Book of Est' or 'Matari', they'd be very welcome to give a quick description of the books and how good they are. I should be getting a copy of Book of the Die soon, so I can fill in that section myself.

Aside from that, I'd like to recommend this for the edited guide and suchlike.
Chance be with you.

Fascinating entry. I will definitely add it the H2G2 Literary Society next time I make an update, and hopefully we can get this edited as well. (However, I just recently made my monthly scout recommendations, so unless another scout recommends it, it will be at least a month)

The "I" references will need to be dropped. They don't want the researcher to appear within an edited entry. I would have no problem with you dropping the section on Matari. You don't need to write a paragraph on every book an author has written, however, rewriting what you have to something like:

Matari, set in ancient Japan, involves a love-triangle. Published in 1975, this novel is currently out-of-print and very hard to find.

Would also work. The reader would understand immediately why the paragraph is short without you having to say it, and you convey the same information.

Gavroche

"I" references dropped.
Matari section fixed. (yeah - that's good advice).

Glad you liked it...

I've finally got hold of matari - and fiddled a bit elsewhere... comments, criticisms...

Editorial Note: This thread has been moved out of the Peer Review forum because this entry has now been recommended for the Edited Guide.

If they haven't been along already, the Scout who recommended your entry will post here soon, to let you know what happens next. Meanwhile you can find out what will happen to your entry here: http://www.h2g2.com/SubEditors-Process

Congratulations!

yipskip.

I assume that was you Gavroche... regardless, thank you whoever it was

Now I wait for the long tedious bit while it gets sub-edded, right?

Yes, I recommended it, and as you noticed, they approved. To quote the standard message:

"You'll be glad to know that we think this entry is great, and it has now gone into the Editorial Process for future inclusion in the Edited Guide. When it does get into the Edited Guide, we will email to let you know, but please bear in mind it can take a while for entries to go through the sub-editing system."

It's never been quite clear to me why the editors can't say that...

Because it's nice for the Scouts to say it - it's always pleasant to be the bearer of good news. So although we could say it as The h2g2 Editors, we think it's fun for the Scouts to do it.

Our message is designed to cope with Scouts forgetting to close off the thread, though, so it doesn't make a huge difference. It's just us trying to spread a little love.

Gosh - it's like the 70s all over again...

the 70's failed in stopping the 80's ariving
lets not forget that

now all hug and be beautiful

Can I hug and be ugly?

Welcome to h2g2, by the way. May your entries always have comments. {or some equal tosh}

nice to be here
i imagine my tosh shall equall my..erm...
untosh?

also
as means to introduce or create:
i stumbled upon your site
and im a relic from the six sided site
i never correct spellings
and never regret
anything else, ask
but
"expect lies"
*s*

Lies are beaty. And beauty lies.
*giggles*

you spell worse than me

*s*
"to know beauty is to embrace lies"
i like that