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This article has no sources and no claim of notability. I recommend that it be redirected to Walter Tevis until sources verifting notability can be found per WP:NRV. Does anyone know of any reviews of this book on or off line? All I can find about the book are comments that he "...also wrote..." it. Jbh 15:13, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Article has at least one source. I am also going to go to a print edition of "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" which is not some user edited website, to get a reference.

Note to other users - nominator has been a persistent stalker of mine for some days now.-MacRùsgail (talk) 18:42, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

@MacRusgail: Enough. Read WP:HOUND. "Correct use of an editor's history includes (but is not limited to) fixing unambiguous errors or violations of Misplaced Pages policy, or correcting related problems on multiple articles." Any more accusations of stalking and I will raise the matter at WP:ANI. --NeilN 19:15, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

@NeilN: Thank you. I spent a while writing a long reply and edit conflicted with your post. When that happens it usually means that what I had to say did not need saying at the time. Jbh 21:38, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

@NeilN: "Enough. Read WP:HOUND" - Thank you, I am all too aware of "hounding" and stalking, I have been experiencing it for some weeks now, and you have done nothing whatsoever to understand my viewpoint.-MacRùsgail (talk) 13:23, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

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The book review listed is not RS as it appears to be a blog. The publishers site has extracts from Kirkus Review, Newsweek and Publisher's Weekley. If there are published reviews to go with those extracts rather than simple comments all is good. I tried to find them but my guess is they are from the early '80s. While Tevis has written some very notable books I do not think he is notable enough that the book passes WP:NBOOKS criteria #5 but others may disagree. I suspect it is an 'also ran' compared to his other works. Jbh 21:57, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Comment - Please double check some of the claims made in these comments. The OP has an extremely liberal notion of what constitutes a "blog".

"I do not think he is notable enough that the book passes WP:NBOOKS " - Yes, and we know why that is. Nothing to do with the creator of the article at all.-MacRùsgail (talk) 13:26, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

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