trying to find the name of a story of a man who joins the army leaves after panama becomes a paramedic the rejoins the army after 911 any ideas thanks
trying to find the name of a story of a man who joins the army leaves after panama becomes a paramedic the rejoins the army after 911 any ideas thanks
https://finestories.com/series/49/jeff-knox
Is the link to the 2 story series on Fine Stories.
Link to Finestories on the SoL home page as they're sister sites and you SoL log on should work on both, especially if you're logged on to SoL and you use the link to go to the other site.
Authors will sometimes post stories to one site but not the other. It may not be feasible, but it would be nice if SOL's searches also searched the Finestories and Sci-Fi websites.
Considering the nature of SOL stories, such a search algorithm would not be good for the other two websites.
Authors will sometimes post stories to one site but not the other. It may not be feasible, but it would be nice if SOL's searches also searched the Finestories and Sci-Fi websites.
I too think there's an opportunity for a unified search algorithm to look for stories on all three. A visual quick scan suggested Finestories gets more original SciFi content than Scifistories.
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I too think there's an opportunity for a unified search algorithm to look for stories on all three. A visual quick scan suggested Finestories gets more original SciFi content than Scifistories.
FS has been around a lot longer than SciFi so more of the authors are aware of it and are posting to it.
One of the things Lazeez has on his list of improvements when he has time is to have a way to post a story to as many of the WLPC sites that an author wants to with the one posting submission. I suspect he'll do it by having a single database and site switches for which sites it's to display on, if he does it that way then the existing search engine will do the job, but it means significant changes to the database, submission wizard, and the way the results information is presented.
I suspect he'll do it by having a single database
I very much doubt he would choose for a single database, I know I would definitely keep them separate to allow full independent running on different servers. That won't make searches over all three sites impossible although queries involving multiple databases is something you should try to avoid if possible. It will probably require data warehousing or an external solution that can merge search indexes from all databases. That's where my database knowledge stops so maybe there are better solutions.
I very much doubt he would choose for a single database
Actually, I am pretty sure he has out right said that one of the long term goals is running all three off a single database. Note: done properly, the database doesn't need to be on ANY of the web facing servers.
Note: done properly, the database doesn't need to be on ANY of the web facing servers.
Done properly the database and web server will always be separated. Using a single database removes the possibility to keep the sites physically separated which might be very convenient considering the differences. Working with a single database does have some advantages though: no double storage of stories that are available on multiple sites and just a single database to maintain and backup.
It will make searching more convenient. Imagine seeing the search results and below every result links to the sites where a story is found. Now that would be nice!
I very much doubt he would choose for a single database, I know I would definitely keep them separate to allow full independent running on different servers.
His plans were to add it as a purely optional posting option, thus you could choose to post to all three sites, but if the story didn't fit the others, or like me, you post your own customized versions for each site to fit the site's clientele, you simply wouldn't choose to post that way.
Authors will sometimes post stories to one site but not the other. It may not be feasible, but it would be nice if SOL's searches also searched the Finestories and Sci-Fi websites.
Considering the nature of SOL stories, such a search algorithm would not be good for the other two websites.
I often put 'cleaned up' (i.e. sanitized, though they're typically rewritten rather than the standard Readers Digest 'simplified text') versions of my stories on FineStories, whenever possible. For my last book, it wasn't possible to post a 'clean' version featuring a single chapter with an interspecies sex act with aliens, so that story was simply never posted to FS. :(
In those cases, searching for a story across all three sites would turn up very different content, labeling them all as 'duplicates'. :(
labeling them all as 'duplicates'
If I created multiple versions of the same story, I wouldn't be upset about them all being found in such a search. I would be upset at myself for not modifying the titles to avoid someone becoming confused by the multiple versions
i.e. sanitized, though they're typically rewritten rather than the standard Readers Digest 'simplified text'
Is there someplace I can see what a Readers Digest 'simplified text' would look like?
Is there someplace I can see what a Readers Digest 'simplified text' would look like?
In a copy of the Reader's Digest...?
sanitized, though they're typically rewritten rather than the standard Readers Digest 'simplified text
The proper term is Readers Digest condensed version. The condensed version is purely an edit for length, not to scrub out mature content.