Of Wikis and Wold Newton: Part 6

Today, I'm offering a twofer: both the entries starting with G and H will be covered.

"Lord Gandrith, son of Jack the Ripper and half-brother to Doc Caliban."
This character's name is actually spelled Grandrith.

"Gilles de Rais <Bluebeard> (1404 – 1440), husband to Red Riding Hood"
I have no idea what inspired that speculation, and it seems random even by the standards of this list.

"Joe Gilmore <Marshal Law>"
Marshal Law explicitly takes place in an alternate future overrun with superbeings created as soldiers in a war with South America in the 21st Century, which seems difficult to reconcile with what we know of the WNU's future as outlined in the various Star Trek series, among others.

"Jake 'J.J' Gittes, related to Dick Tracy and Sam Spade."
Another theory not supported by any article.

"Artemus, father of Walter Gordon and Clifford Gordon by __?__ Blythe, great great grandfather of Commissioner James Worthington Gordon."
Those who have read Mark K. Brown's article "The Magnificent Gordons" (which the family grouping for the Gordons draws on) know that Mark identified the Commissioner as Arte's grandson, not his great-great-grandson.

"Charles George General Gordon of Khartoum> (1833 – 1885), father of James Gordon and Hugh Gordon by his wife Antonia Drummond; descendant of Orion Gordon and Robert Glenmore, Earl of Dalbright."
Mark says that his Charles Gordon is born in 1786. Apparently, there was a misreading of the sentence where Mark says that General Gordon was related to the Gordons under discussion.

"Raymond "Flash" (1911 - ?), son of Stanley Gordon and Caroline Jones; future descendant of Artemus Gordon, father of Richard "Rick" Gordon by his wife Dale Arden."
One wonders if the author of this entry bothered to double-check it, since he follows the continuity of the animated series Defenders of the Earth by placing Flash's exploits in the future and utilizing Rick Gordon, yet also follows Mark in placing Flash's birth in 1911.

"Richard "Rick" Gordon, son of Raymond "Flash" Gordon and Dale Arden."
A trilogy of articles by Art Bollmann, Greg Gick, and David Kennedy have been written regarding the Defenders of the Earth in the WNU.

"Gordon Gray (ca. 1935 - ?), biological father of Laura Webber Spencer; son of Penelope Alice Clayton , by an unnamed father."
As previously mentioned, this is not in any article, and Henry Z. Covert is planning a different genealogy for Gordon and Laura. Also, Philip Jose Farmer and Win Scott Eckert's novel The Evil in Pemberley House establishes that Nellie married her fellow Justice Inc. member Algernon Heathcote "Smitty" Smith.

"John Hawley (Dr.) <The Invisible Man>, husband of Rebecca Gray and the father of John Stuart Griffin, Robert Frederick Griffin, Francis Drake Griffin, and estranged father of William Carpenter by ravage of Polly Whittier."
According to Dennis E. Power's articles on the Griffin family, William Carpenter's mother was actually Rebecca Randall.

"Katrina "Kerry" <Kitty Carroll, Mary Storm>, mother of Susan Storm by Richard Russell and Jonathan Storm by Franklin Storm."
The above articles identify Kerry Griffin and Kitty Carroll as two different people.

"Nick Halloway, descendant of John Hawley Griffin."
Nor does the Griffin family series identify this character as a member, or mention him at all.

"Maximillian Henry (unknown connection to the Henry's) soul-clone of Dracula."
Dennis Power, the man who constructed the Henry genealogy in the first place, has a different theory as to Maximillian's identity.

"Luda Mae Hewitt, mother to Robert Sawyer, Edward Sawyer, William Sawyer and Drayton Sawyer by __?__ Sawyer."
Again, my colleague Henry Covert has a genealogy for the Sawyers quite different from this.

"Jenny Hill, wife of Sigerson Holmes, grandmother of Geoffrey Weston, descendant of Fanny Hill."
Apparently, the author did not bother to read Myths for the Modern Age (although perhaps we've already established that), as Brad Mengel's article "Watching the Detectives" was revised to accommodate statements in the Baker Street Mysteries series that in fact Mycroft Holmes was Weston's grandfather, and instead identified Val McDiarmid's hero Dr. Tony Hill as Sigi and Jenny's grandson.

"Dorothy, mother of Martin Hewitt, Honoria Holmes, and Elizabeth Holmes."
Mr. Mengel never says that Honoria and Elizabeth had a different surname than their brother.

"Raffles, father of John Mannering by his first wife with the last name of Mannering and husband of Laura Fauntley; father of Creighton Holmes; son of Sherlock Holmes and Marjorie Raffles, grandson of A.J. Raffles."
As the link shows, Raffles Holmes being A.J.'s grandson was untenable, and Win Eckert instead proposed that he was A.J.'s nephew.

"Penelope "Nell" Huxleigh"
Win Eckert has ruled that Carole Nelson Douglas' series of novels about Irene Adler are not part of WNU continuity.

To be continued tomorrow.

Of Wikis and Wold Newton: Part 5

Other than the usual characters who haven't been referenced in any articles, the "E"s are fairly unremarkable, so I'll move on to F...

"The Fausts are all other relatives of a Wold Newton meteor strike survivor."
These appear to be more characters from the (probably) nonexistent German Wold Newton site.

"Maxwell "Max""
Max's inclusion in the Faust/Faustus gobbledygook tree is one of the most puzzling, in my opinion.

"Earl Firefly , great grandson of Rufus T. Firefly, father of Tiny Firefly and Rufus Firefly by Eve Wilson ."
The Devil's Rejects seems to imply that the members of the Firefly clan and their associates are actually using aliases taken from the Marx Brothers' films, rather than those being their real names. Once again, Henry Zeo Covert is working on the Fireflys' family tree in a way that is much more faithful to the source material.

"Axel Foley, nephew of John Shaft."
Although Dennis Power has included Shaft in a genealogy, which Mr. Covert has modified and expanded upon, neither gentleman's research connects to Axel Foley.

"Sydney Fox, daughter of Fah Lo Suee by an unnamed archaeologist (potentially Indiana Jones' unnamed daughter)."
Once again, this ignores existing research on Sydney's ancestry, as well as her father appearing in the TV series. Also this sentence is unclear. Is the "unnamed archaeologist" (ignoring the fact that Sydney's father, Randall, is an engineer) Indiana Jones? Because otherwise, I would love to know how Fah Lo Suee and Indy's daughter were able to conceive a child.

"Sarah, wife of Walter Hazlett and mother of John Hazlett, Brian Johnson, Gary Wallace, and Ted (last name unknown) by John Smith II."
While one of the people who contributed to this page, Dawn M. "Lady Aleena" Burge, actually wrote an article dealing with this, I suspect that Ms. Burge has not actually read The Dead Zone before speculating about its characters. In it, Sarah's last name is Bracknell, and she is, like Johnny Smith, a Maine native.

"Fu Manchu (1875 - 1982), father of Fah Lo Suee, Shang-Chi, Charlie Chan, and Julius No as well as other children."
No article has speculated that Dr. No was Fu Manchu's son. Win Eckert's piece "Who's Going to Take Over the World When I'm Gone?: A Look at the Genealogies of Wold Newton Family Super-Villains and Their Nemeses" found in Myths for the Modern Age (also edited by Eckert) argues that No's mother was Madame de Medici, an agent of Fu Manchu.

I will post part 6 either today or tomorrow.

Of Wikis and Wold Newton: Part 4

Now we reach the letter D:

"Christine Daaé, daughter of Erique Caludin by Christine DuBois, and mother of Dr. Anton Phibes by an unknown gentleman."
Once again the research of Dennis Power is disregarded.

"Abednego Danner (Professor), father of Hugo Danner by his unnamed wife."
Presumably the author of this entry has not read Gladiator, as Abednego's wife's name is given as Mathilda.

"Daniel McGregor Dare (Col.), cousin to Biggles."
This information is not reflected in any article. Also, Dan Dare's adventures clearly take place in a late 20th Century very different from our own.

"Ruth DeWitt Bukater, mother of Rose DeWitt Bukater, and great grandmother of Lizzy Calvert."
I am fairly certain (or least hoping) that Titanic has not been Wolded yet.

"Madeleine Delacroix, wife of William Frankenstein I and mother of Alphonse Victor Frankenstein. (It is uncertain whether Madeleine is related to Monique.)"
I had always assumed, based on the fact that Mark Brown's article dealing with the Frankenstein family implies that Madeleine is also Swiss, that that was exactly what he was suggesting. Also, her husband is William Frankenstein II.

"André Delambre <David Hedison>"
I am uncertain why they seem to be conflating the protagonist of "The Fly" with the actor who played him in the film version.

"Antonio Carlos "Carlito" de la Vega <El Mariachi II>, father to Vincent de la Vega and Victor de la Vega by Carolina Gómez, half-brother to Manuel "Bucho" de la Cruz."
J. Walker Bryson has already researched the Vega brother's genealogy. Also, Matthew Baugh has refined much of his Vega family research in "The Legacy of the Fox: A Chronology of Zorro", to be found in the anthology Myths for the Modern Age: Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Universe (Win Scott Eckert [ed.])

"Aradia di Toscano, an ancestorial influence to the Spellmans and Lenoxs."
What, exactly, is "an ancestorial [sic] influence"?

"Eliza Doolittle, wife to Henry Higgins and niece of John Dolittle, mother of Vernon Higgins, grandmother of Elvira Higgins."
Mark Brown's piece "From Pygmalion to Casablanca: The Genealogy of Henry Higgins", found in the aforementioned Myths for the Modern Age", argues that Eliza is Dr. Dolittle's cousin, not niece.

"Count Vladimir Dracula <Vlad III Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, D. D. Denham, Dracula Prime> (1431 – 1476?)"
Chuck Loridans has identified the Dracula portrayed by Christoper Lee (who used the alias D.D. Denham in The Satanic Rites of Dracula) as a soul-clone of the original.

"Phillip, great grandson of Hugh Drummond."
This is unlikely considering that Hugh was born in the 1890s and the Wikipedia page places Phillip's birth in 1931.

Of Wikis and Wold Newton: Part 3

Continuing through the letter C:

"Matthew <Bill, Snake Charmer>, father of Kwai Chang Caine II, and father of B.B. Kiddo by Beatrix Kiddo."
Ignoring the fact that such a conflation is not mentioned in any article, it also fails to take into account the presence of Bill's younger brother Budd in the Kill Bill movies.

"Doc Caliban, son of Jack the Ripper and half-brother to Lord Gandrith.
James Anthony Caliban "
These are both the same character. Also, why does the latter link lead us to the page for Caliban from The Tempest?

"The Caligaris are all other relatives of a Wold Newton meteor strike survivor. "
This and related entries are among the most puzzling. Before the article was originally deleted, one of the authors, a fellow called "Piecraft", claimed that the info in question came from a German Wold Newton site. However, he did not bother to post a link to the article in question. I suspect that this was a blatant lie.

"Johann Schmidt <Red Skull, John Smith, Dell Rusk>, son of Magnus Caligari by Freida Frankenstein."
Once again, Dennis E. Power has offered a completely different ancestry for the Red Skull.

"Josef Mengele (Dr.) (1911 – 1979?), son of Magnus Caligari by Freida Frankenstein, and father to Rolf Wernher "Strangelove" Schoenbein by Irene Schoenbein, and later two estranged daughters by an Argentine/Dutch woman by the name of Krueger."
Josef Mengele's actual family history is outlined in the wiki page linked to, and frankly I find this speculation to be in rather bad taste.

"Lulu Caligari <Pandora>, daughter of Olivia Lulu Caligari by Schigolch, wife to first husband Dr. Goll, second husband a "painter" (Basil Hallward), and third husband Dr. Schön. She is one of the hapless victims of Jack the Ripper, and possibly the mother of Doc Caliban."
How Lulu could have been the mother of Doc Caliban by Jack the Ripper is beyond me, considering their only encounter ended in him murdering her.

"Magnus , illegitimate son of Doctor Caligari by a woman of unknown origin or name, father of "Die schrecklichen Kinder" (Les Enfants Terribles): Josef Caligari, Johann Caligari and Karl Caligari by Freida Frankenstein, and father of Victor Caligari by Nasthalia Luthor as well as the estranged father of Heinrich Faust-Caligari by Ingrid Faust."
I have no idea where this "Les Enfants Terribles" thing comes from. Also, Dennis Power places Nasthalia Luthor's birth in 1940, making it unlikely, unless time travel was involved, that she is the mother of Dr. Victor Von Doom, who first appeared in the comics in 1962. Furthermore, Power once again has a completely different genealogy for Dr. Doom. The lack of familiarity with the many Wold Newton articles across the web shown by the composers of this list is nothing short of astonishing.

"Robert Faust <Hans Beckert, Doctor Gogol>, escapes Germany to Paris and has an affair with Yvonne Orlac and fathers a son who is later abandoned."
This does not take into account the fact that Mad Love was based on Maurice Renard's Les Mains d'Orlac, in which the doctor who performs the operation is named Cerral. Nor do he and Yvonne have an affair. It is also unlikely that he and Hans Beckert are the same person.

"Abbey Chase <Danger Girl>, sister to Cameron Chase."
Cameron has only one sister in the comics, Terry. David Kennedy has his own theory about Cameron Chase.

"Jonathan Chase (Dr.), father to Walter Chase by Brooke Mackenzie."
Assuming that Jonathan is the same age as the actor who portrayed him, he would have been born in the early '50s. Walter "Acro-Bat" Chase and his teammates in the Justice Experience were stated in the comics to be active in the '70s or '80s.

"Penelope Alice <Nellie Gray> (1919 - ?), mother of Gordon Gray by an unnamed father, grandmother of Laura Webber Spencer."
My friend Henry Zeo Covert is working on a quite different genealogy for Laura Spencer.

"William, father of Angela Clayton by his wife Angela Bridget O'Shaughnessy, father of Ultima Clayton by his wife Jane Brandon, father of Phileas Fogg and Roxana Fogg by his wife Lorina Dacre, father of Fu Manchu by Ling Ju Hai, father of James Moriarty by Josephine Balsamo, father of Paul Finglemore by Josephine Balsamo II, father of John Henry by Bafia (of the Waziri tribe); father of Anne Shirley by Bertha Shirley."
James Moriarty's mother's name is Morcar Moriarty. No article states that Sir William Clayton is Anne Shirley's father.

"Frank Achilles "Buzz" Cooper Sr., son to Archie Andrews by Betty Cooper, adopted by Betty's husband, Dante Kouperakis; half-brother to Dale Cooper, nephew of unknown degree to Karen Cooper."
The name Kouperakis is similar enough to Cooper that I'd be inclined to regard this instead as the name-change it's depicted as in the show.

"Phil Corrigan <Secret Agent X-9, A.J. Martin>"
A.J. Martin is the alias of the pulp character Secret Agent X, not the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.

"Fabian Cortez, father to Gregorio Cortez."
Considering his apparent age when he debuted, a mere decade the first Spy Kids movie was released, one could assume that he has one of the many age-retardants seen in the WNU. Or that the person who made this connection didn't bother to properly read the article above.

"Martin Crane, grandfather to Frasier Winslow Crane and Niles Crane; descendant of Hugh Crane."
How E.E. Smith's Martin Crane could be Frasier and Niles' grandfather and Hugh Crain from The Haunting's descendant is beyond me. Perhaps he used the same time machine as Nasthalia Luthor.

"Richard <Rick Dangerous>, father of Lara Croft."
Brad Mengel's article dealing with Lara Croft ("Watching the Detectives, or, The Family Tree of Sherlock Holmes") does not identify Richard with Rick Dangerous.

Of Wikis and Wold Newton: Part 2

Moving through the letter B:

"C.D. Bales, descendant of Cyrano de Bergerac."
While Cyrano de Bergerac does appear in the WNU via crossover, the movie Roxanne has not been incorporated, as far as I know.

"Robert Bruce Banner (Dr.) <David Bruce Banner>, husband to Elizabeth Ross Talbot."
The only article dealing with the David Bruce Banner portrayed by Bill Bixby on TV has him as Robert Bruce Banner's cousin, rather than the same person.

"Patrick (c. 1962 - ?), brother of Sean Bateman and father of Patrick Bateman Jr. by Jean (last name unknown). The Batemans are related to the Bates family."
No Wold Newton articles to my knowledge deal with either the Bateman or Bates families.

"Johnny , cousin of Thomas Bates."
This is the same Johnny Bates who destroyed most of London at the end of Alan Moore's run on Marvelman, correct? That seems to be at odds with a number of works from the '80s onwards set in that city.

"Jack Bauer"
Again, 24 has a number of details (such as different Presidents) that make it problematic at best.

"Rick Blaine, father to an estranged child with Ilsa Lund, cousin to Sam Malone; descendant to the Carters."
.....
Rick Blaine is cousin to Sam Malone from Cheers? Because they're both bar owners, I guess? That seems a weak basis for a connection.

"Anita, unknown relation."
Anita Blake seems to operate in a world where the existence of vampires is publicly known, which again does not square with most stories dealing with the undead in the WNU.

"Daphne, niece of Captain Francis Percy Blake."
There is already an article by Dennis Power that gives an alternative genealogy for Daphne Blake and her teammates.

"Bela Blasko , son of Maleva Blasko by the Beast of Gévaudan, and theriomorph who passed on his condition to Lawrence Milo Talbot and Lawrence Stewart Talbot. Father to Leon Corledo by an unknown Spanish servant girl."
Power also has a different candidate for Leon's father.

"James Bond (1920 - ?), father of Clive Reston Beauregard by Violet "Shrinking" Holmes, father of Alex Rider by Honeychile Rider, and James Suzuki by Kissy Suzuki, father to a daughter by Teresa Draco."
Chronologically, 007 being Alex Rider's grandfather is more feasible. There has never been any indication, whether by Ian Fleming, his successors, or Wold Newton scholars, that Bond and Teresa had any children.

"Father (first name unknown), uncle to Tom Brown and descendant of Young Goodman Brown."
Again, the chronological placement is unlikely. Tom Brown being Father Brown's uncle is somewhat more plausible. Also, two pastiches on Win Scott Eckert's Crossover Chronology give Father Brown's first name as John and Paul respectively: Eckert suggests that his full name was John Paul Brown as a means of reconciling the conflicting information.

TBC...

Of Wikis and Wold Newton: Part 1

For the past 7 years, the Wold Newton Family tree formulated by Philip Jose Farmer, and expanded by such talented gentlemen as Win Scott Eckert and Dennis E. Power into a whole universe, encompassing a seemingly endless number of interconnected fictional heroes and villains, has been a source of unceasing fascination for me. Unfortunately, while I consider myself to be fairly well-read on the literature written on the subject both in print and online, there are a number of places across the Web that give inaccurate information about who or what has been incorporated, that does not differentiate between which are Phil Farmer's theories and which are post-Farmerian scholars', and generally giving inaccurate information that sadly seems to play a part in many dismissing the whole concept. And, perhaps not surprisingly, Wikipedia has had several entries with inaccurate information about the Wold Newton Universe (hereafter referred to as the WNU). Perhaps the most egregious example is this list, which not even deletion could kill, as a gentleman using the name Phil Sandifer (which I assume is a pseudonym, as that's the proper name of the title character of the movie Daddy-O) has preserved this list on his own profile, where it runs the risk of continuing to mislead people as to what is or isn't in the WNU. In a series of posts, I shall go through the list alphabetically and point out where the people who have compiled this list have fouled-up.

First of all, I want to give props to my good friend Henry Zeo Covert for amending the following onto the list's disclaimer. "The vast majority of characters listed here have never been referred to by Philip Jose Farmer. Dozens, if not hundreds, of the characters listed here do not appear on any of 'the various websites dedicated to the research and geneaology from [sic] the cross-over of characters related to the Wold Newton family featured in the Wold Newton Universe' [as is stated in the disclaimer]. Many characters listed here are only connected to the Wold Newton Universe in this very article - 'User: Phil Sandifer/Wold Newton'. This largely invalidates this article as an encyclopedic reference for readers wishing to know which characters are included in the Wold Newton Universe by the various writers of articles set in the WNU that can be found online or in print. It's impossible to determine if Phil Sandifer himself is claiming credit for compiling this list, and, if so, if he is to be faulted for appending such vast amounts of erroneous information to an entry that could have proven useful to readers faced with the often daunting amount of information pertaining to Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton concepts." Henry is quite correct in pointing out that a disproportionately large number of characters listed on this list have not been Wolded, and for that matter, there are quite a few who cannot be smoothly included, in my opinion.

• "Devon Adair, mother of Ulysses Adair by an unnamed man.
• Ulysses "Uly" Adair (2184 - ?), son of Devon Adair."

These characters are from the TV series Earth 2, which to my knowledge has not been incorporated into the WNU, whether via discovery of a crossover linking it to a work already in the WNU, or a piece of research bringing it in. There are, as Henry says "Dozens, if not hundreds" of examples of such on this list, and to save space I will only deal with the most egregious ones.

"The Addamses are all other relatives of a Wold Newton meteor strike survivor. "
News to me.

"Charles, grandfather/clonefather to Gomez Addams and Fester Addams by Abigail Adams and Eudora Addams."
What the hell is a clonefather? And is this meant to be the Charles Addams? The list does not specify.

"Wednesday Friday, daughter of Morticia Frump and Gomez Addams, wife of Edward "Eddie" Wolfgang Munster."
I will address in future chapters the fact that the person who composed the information on the Munsters evidently didn't read the article already Wolding them, but I should point out a chronological discrepancy in this statement: The original Addams Family strips first appeared in the New Yorker in 1938. The first episode of The Munsters aired on September 24, 1964.
Unless this was a May-December marriage, I find this premise unlikely.

"Pugsley, son of Morticia Frump and Gomez Addams, husband of Lydia Deetz."
The argument above applies even moreso here, since the film Beetlejuice came out in 1988.

"Prince Alexander of Daventry <Gwydion>, son of King Graham of Daventry and Queen Valanice."
This is the beginning of an odd trend on the list of including various characters from fairy-tales and related fiction, while conflating some of these characters at random. Again, only the ones that stick out like a sore thumb will be listed herein.

"Phyllis Allenby, cousin of Wilfred Glendon and grandmother of Arlene Logan."
While Dennis E. Power has done some work involving Wilfred Glendon's genealogy, as one can see from reading the linked article, Phyllis Allenby is not mentioned within, nor is she in any of the many articles appearing on the various Wold Newton websites.

"Mr. ? Altamont"
It's actually somewhat astonishing that Holmes' alias from "His Last Bow" has his own entry when Holmes himself already has one.

"Alucard <Adrian Farenheit Tepes>, son of Vlad III Dracula."
While Son of Dracula and Castlevania have both been Wolded, neither piece of research conflates these individuals. Once again, this article's claim that "All the characters listed have been referred to by Philip José Farmer or the various websites dedicated to the research and geneaology from the cross-over of characters related to the Wold Newton family featured in the Wold Newton Universe" is invalidated.

"Doc Ardan"
Again, another example of both a character and his alias having a separate listing. Those who have carefully read Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier's adaptation/translation of Guy d'Armen's novel Doc Ardan: City of Gold and Lepers and subsequent stories about the character by Eckert and others will have picked up on the many implications that Ardan is actually Lester Dent's bronze-skinned hero Doc Savage.

To be continued...Comments and criticism are welcome, of course.

Amazon screws anthology contributors

My good buddy Win Eckert encouraged those who read his blog (which can be found in the links section on this very page) to repost this, and I'm happy to oblige.

"Amazon fails again--and contributors to anthologies get punished

In the past year, Amazon has eliminated listings for contributors to anthologies. Their first stated rationale was that anthology participants are not "authors" and thus they were all deleted. Amazon instructed that participants should be listed as "contributors."

Now, apparently, Amazon is refusing to list such participants as "contributors." Such a position devalues those of us who write for anthologies, but then devaluing the writer is nothing new with Amazon.

A few days ago I noticed that Amazon had eliminated the listings for all the contributors to my anthology Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe--despite the fact that when Amazon eliminated all the "author" listings a few months back, I dutifully went back into Amazon and re-entered them as "contributors."

Noticing the listings were once again gone, I re-entered the contributors... and received this pleasant missive this morning:

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Amazon, enough is enough. I know who contributed to the anthology I edited. I submitted correct information, following your guidelines. I provided a URL listing the table of contents, and the contributors.

I've been playing ball with you, Amazon, entering, and re-entering, and re-entering correct information on both the anthology I edited, and other anthologies in which I've participated, only to have you constantly move the target.

Amazon's refusal to list Philip José Farmer as a contributor to a book in which he has nine essays--Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe--is counter-intuitive at best and mean-spirited at worst. And it runs counter to Amazon's own self-interest by preventing readers from searching by authors, in order to locate anthologies to which their favorite authors have contributed.

I've tried Amazon's "customer service"... only to get the runaround and contradictory answers. Surprise.

Is it any wonder I do my damnedest to avoid purchasing from Amazon?

Please repost, re-tweet, re-fill-in-the-blank. Enough is enough."