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• Project: Cherryh Compendium/Concordance

;Subject: cherryhlist
;Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 09:44:38 +0100 (MET)
;From: Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>

> 	OK, various people have various reasons for why the original
> plan for a Cherryh Encyclopedia/Supplement wouldn't work. Here then is
> a modified idea.
> 	Instead of a comprehensive index of all items it could exists as
> a collection of essays on various subject matters. For example I'm prompting
> Lesley to take the research we have done on the Kifish language and put
> together an essay on Kiffish words and grammer.
> 	Anyone want to volunteer to do any essays? Anyone with ideas for
> subject titles?
> 
> 				Jo

Well, I'm currently doing history and I could do ships next x-mas, but
I disagree with a lot of people on a lot of tech questions. I think it
would be a good idea to have two people working on everything.

Subjects should include:

Technology: This could be split into starship/station tech and medical
tech. Somebody has to re-read every single book for ships and most of
the books for medical.

Xenology: This could be split into the different alien species. Some-
body has to re-read the books with aliens.

Politics/History/Geography: It's hard to split politics and history,
but geography could be separate. Again, somebody has to re-read every
book. The Compact history in the timeline v1.1 will be much closer to 
a schoolbook summary that to a timeline, and includes some politics.
A timeline needs dates to be written, and I don't have them.

Onno