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I've been doing some re-organisation in the Hive today; mainly populating the new Omnibus and Anthologies Edited by Mike albums with content out of the existing Books by Mike and Anthologies albums.
Along the way, in a sort of house-keeping exercise - and this all replicates what I was doing in the old Image Gallery - I've been identifying which books are known by different names; ie City of the Beast (See also Warriors of Mars). Where a book is published under two different titles but both credited to Mike (rather than a pseudonym) I've bundled them both together in one album with a note, ie Phoenix in Obsidian (aka The Silver Warriors) or The Shores of Death (aka The Twilight Man).
For Bibliographic or collection reasons, this is both easy and seems sensible because generally there's only one publication with the alternative title. The exceptions to this have been The Wrecks of Time/The Rituals of Infinity,The Sundered Worlds/The Blood Red Game and The Sleeping Sorceress/The Vanishing Tower. They are (currently) exceptions because both titles have been used across a variety of editions and are well known in their own right.
My question is: should we leave them like that, or should we 'bundle' them? And if the latter, which title should take precedence?
My instinct tends towards 'bundling' them under the original title - since these are the name they most recently appeared under in The Eternal Champion, The Roads Between the Worlds and Stormbringer/Elric: Stealer of Souls EC omnibuses from Orion/White Wolf.
Along the way, in a sort of house-keeping exercise - and this all replicates what I was doing in the old Image Gallery - I've been identifying which books are known by different names; ie City of the Beast (See also Warriors of Mars). Where a book is published under two different titles but both credited to Mike (rather than a pseudonym) I've bundled them both together in one album with a note, ie Phoenix in Obsidian (aka The Silver Warriors) or The Shores of Death (aka The Twilight Man).
For Bibliographic or collection reasons, this is both easy and seems sensible because generally there's only one publication with the alternative title. The exceptions to this have been The Wrecks of Time/The Rituals of Infinity,The Sundered Worlds/The Blood Red Game and The Sleeping Sorceress/The Vanishing Tower. They are (currently) exceptions because both titles have been used across a variety of editions and are well known in their own right.
My question is: should we leave them like that, or should we 'bundle' them? And if the latter, which title should take precedence?
My instinct tends towards 'bundling' them under the original title - since these are the name they most recently appeared under in The Eternal Champion, The Roads Between the Worlds and Stormbringer/Elric: Stealer of Souls EC omnibuses from Orion/White Wolf.
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