Talk:2023: A Trilogy

23 enigma

This moment is worth recording for posterity; as citations are added or removed it may change: purely by chance, citation number 23 supports the text about the 23 enigma. --kingboyk (talk) 14:50, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

State of the article and the help needed to finish it

This article is in the domain of both WikiProject The KLF and WikiProject Novels. As the currently sole active member of the former, I've done what I can on the KLF side of things, but the article could do with some help on the book side of things - which is really rather important as the article is supposed to be about a novel :) Unfortunately I am needed elsewhere (rescuing a Featured Article before it is proposed for deletion, amongst other things) and haven't actually read the book yet.

What I have taken care of:

• Infobox
• A background section on who the authors are, where their pseudonym came from (important, as it's Illuminatus!-inspired); what they have written previously (The Manual); and what they got up to 23 years before announcing this book (and how they got the money to do that)
• A paragraph (previously a section) on the rumours of a return early in 2017
• Basic details about the book launch and surrounding events (covered in more detail in Welcome to the Dark Ages) [I'm not too happy at this section being so short, but I think the launch is covered in adequate length and I don't know where else to put the content; a copyedit can sort that out later if the article is developed]
• A very short explanation about the significance of the number 23, as related to the launch of a book called 2023 - 23 years after the aforementioned significant event in the authors' career - at 23 seconds past midnight on the 23rd (Illuminatus! related again)
• A section about the cover (guess what, it's Illuminatus! related)

These sections need writing:

• Plot, including the titles of each of the 3 parts of the trilogy
• Critical reception. The original author left a quote from a review but it's not the quote I'd have used.

After that it would need a copyedit and maybe it would be GA worthy, who knows?

Sources

• Google. I'm not meaning to be facetious; I have not searched for book reviews.
• Ellis-Petersen, Hannah ref name="Ellis-Petersen"
• Book extract in the Guardian
• Jake Arnott's review, already referenced but not properly exploited
• There is a list of sources about "Welcome to the Dark Ages" at https://www.seanclark.me.uk/welcome-to-the-dark-ages or at archive.org if link is dead; I would not be surprised if some of them cover the book

--kingboyk (talk) 02:11, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Note to future self or anyone else who will summarise the plot: Some advice about writing a plot section was left at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Novels#2023:_A_Trilogy. --kingboyk (talk) 01:58, 11 March 2020 (UTC)