Talk:Bibliophage (short story)

Covered?
why does this get a page? Simply because its characters were later used in a DWU story? From that logic, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and episodes of Star Trek should get pages! NightmareofEden ☎  04:47, 2 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Yeah you're right, I'm not sure why this exists, much less that it's valid. Danochy ☎  06:43, 2 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I believe this follows the precedent of the non-Dalek-featuring stories in the early Dalek annuals; they are placed by authorial intent in the DWU, and the book they were published in had the rights to some DWU concepts even if they weren't used in this particular story; therefore we cover it anyway.


 * In this case the fact that the author later reused the characters introduced in Bibliophage in an unquestionably DWU story demonstrates apparent intent that the story was set in the DWU — and besides, the gimmick of "Wonders", being that each story explicates a different Wonder of the Universe, already implies that all the stories in the book take place in a single universe.


 * Of course, some might argue that this isn't strong enough, or have contravening evidence in terms of Stephen Marley's authorial intent at time of release. But this story has been covered by a long time; T:BOUND applies and an exclusion debate in the Forums would I think be needed to overturn the current practice.


 * Nevertheless you are both right that "retroactive validity" per se is not a thing, and the phrasing on this page should be amended. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 15:24, 2 December 2021 (UTC)