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This article has pretty bad grammar. It needs some cleaning up by someone who can write well and who has read the story. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.137.187.141 (talk • contribs) 07:09, 10 June 2006

Picture

Why is the picture of the front cover in Italian on the English Wikipedia? Surely it would make more sense for it to be in English... D4g0thur 08:53, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I totally agree. Tavilis 10:08, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

The proposal is to merge this page with Florina (planet).

Support merge. —Scouter Sig 22:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 09:42, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added this into the category for 1950s science fiction novels. Transcendentalist01 (talk) 20:25, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of ISBN from Wikidata

Please note that this article's infobox is retrieving an ISBN from Wikidata currently. This is the result of a change made to {{Infobox book}} as a result of this RfC. It would be appreciated if an editor took some time to review this ISBN to ensure it is appropriate for the infobox. If it is not, you could consider either correcting the ISBN on Wikidata (preferred) or introducing a blank ISBN parameter in the infobox to block the retrieval from Wikidata. If you do review the ISBN, please respond here so other editors don't duplicate your work. This is an automated message to address concerns that this change did not show up on watchlists. ~ Rob^Talk 01:21, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Plot summary error

I'm not really one for editing but having read the book the psycho-probing was not undertaken by the government of Sark but by a Florinian Townman seeking independence for his planet. It's a bit convoluted but perhaps someone better positioned to edit might correct this. 46.208.31.63 (talk) 15:08, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

By a Florinian working for the Sark civil service before he got himself appointed townman, technically. I'll take a look at it later... AnonMoos (talk) 19:22, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What you say is also what I remember. GwydionM (talk) 09:19, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

addition of "or the owners and slaves on the cotton plantations of US South" to the article

The Florinians are certainly repressed enough, but the analogy is somewhat dubious, since plantation owners in the U.S. south were often quite closely involved in the management of slaves, while most Sarkites in the Asimov novel are far removed socially (and often geographically as well) from where the kyrt cultivation is going on. AnonMoos (talk) 18:56, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that wonky unsupported connection right away. I came here to see if anyone else had, and wouldn't you know it, I wasn't the only one. I went ahead and made those changes 142.105.136.121 (talk) 23:52, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I reversed changed that brought the book into line with what a racist would want to read about. The original had no speculation: just a fair summary of what the book actually says. The crop is 'kurt', and a mutant version of cotton, but the natives are lighter-skinned than their rulers. All a complete accident?--GwydionM (talk) 11:57, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have now added source. Three rather than four, since the Wiki software objected to one. And I added more on the scient.--GwydionM (talk) 12:24, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Racist vandalism

Someone changed the accurate mention of plantations in the US South to "plantations in Latin America and the Arab world". No connection to actual events - Arabs never had such a system, and Asimov specifically said that the US South is the source. Note also that neither Arabs nor Latin Americans were ever rigidly racist in the way the US South was. Having a darker skin was certainly a disadvantage, but not decisive. Just like France, with Dumas, or Pushkin's family in Tsarist Russia. GwydionM (talk) 08:16, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]