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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-04 · 16 entries checked · 12 flagged · 24 issues confirmed · 0 corrected · 24 still open
A. E. van Vogt — The entry states van Vogt's father was a lawyer, but established sources indicate his father was primarily a businessman/steamship agent and only briefly a lawyer.
A. E. van Vogt — The entry claims van Vogt coined the term 'fix-up' for novels assembled from previously published short stories, but the term was later applied by critics and fans, not coined by him.
Alexander Belyaev — The entry states Belyaev traveled the world extensively after each successful case, but his known travels were limited and he was not a world traveler.
Alexander Belyaev — The entry says he abandoned law in 1914 to focus on writing, but the widely-known canon indicates he became ill with tuberculosis of the spine in 1915 or 1916, not immediately in 1914, and the paralysis lasted from 1916 to 1922 or 1923, not exactly six years.
Anne McCaffrey — The entry states McCaffrey was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction, but C. L. Moore won a Hugo for fiction in 1946.
Anne McCaffrey — The entry's broader claim that McCaffrey was the first woman to win a Nebula Award for fiction is misleading; Ursula K. Le Guin won Best Novel in 1969.
Anthony Burgess — The entry states Burgess was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, but the Nobel shortlist is not publicly disclosed, making this claim unsubstantiated.
Anthony Burgess — The entry says Burgess translated the opera Carmen, but there is no widely known record of him translating the libretto of Carmen; his confirmed translations include Cyrano de Bergerac and Oedipus Rex, not Carmen.
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky — The entry states that Roadside Picnic had no book editions at the time it was adapted into Tarkovsky's film Stalker, but it was published as a book in 1972, before the 1979 film.
George R.R. Martin — The entry states that Martin's father was named 'Raymond Collins', but his father's name was Raymond Collins Martin, not Raymond Collins.
George R.R. Martin — The entry claims that Martin won the Alley Award for Best Fan Fiction in 1965 for 'Powerman vs. The Blue Barrier', but the Alley Award for Best Fan Fiction was not awarded in 1965; Martin won the Alley Award for Best Fan Story in 1965 for 'The Powerman vs. The
J.R.R. Tolkien — The entry states Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 28 March 1972, but the appointment date was 1 January 1972 (the investiture was on 28 March).
Octavia Butler — The entry states Butler was the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, but Samuel R. Delany received one in 1993, before Butler in 1995.
Octavia Butler — The entry says Butler's father died when she was three, but established sources say he died when she was seven.
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