Calling all fans

[tahnan]

So I need something that satisfies the following criteria:

• It's a list of names that appear in a work of non-Earth-based fiction (see below),


• Preferably all names, not just major characters,


• The longer the book/series, the better (some possibilities: Wheel of Time, Belgariad/Mellorean, Dragaera, Valdemar, Thomas Covenant, etc.),


• Separated by gender (or separable, e.g. a list with gender tagged in an easy-to-spot format).

If you're the sort of dedicated fan who has such a list lying around, or who wants to generate one, or who knows where one can be found on the Internet, let me know.

("Non-Earth-based", incidentally, means "that does not mostly take place on either Earth or a reasonable facsimile". Guy Gavriel Kay's pseudo-history fantasies are Earth-based, by this criteria, as is any urban fantasy; but not Thomas Covenant, which starts on Earth and drifts away rather quickly. I mention written fantasy here, but TV shows would do, as would SF, provided that they're (a) sufficiently long and (b) sufficiently non-Earth-based. Or at least that the characters are non-Earth-based; a comprehensive list of Trek aliens might work.)

Comments

[cnoocy]

Do you need just one, or as many as possible?

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

As many as possible.

[avon.livejournal.com]

Well, its not easy to separate, but if you get stuck I have both the _Narnia comnpanion_ and the _Valdemar_ equivilent - basically encyclopedias of the world with all of the characters in them. One would have to go sort through the book though to make the list you want.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

I just might, at that. I'm hoping to avoid insane amounts of typing, but in a pinch, I can.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I once came across exactly this on Wikipedia, for GRRM's Big Thing, though it fails the last criterion. I imagine that there are similar pages for other series elsewhere in WP.

[cnoocy]

I think the last criterion is the most important one for Tahnan's purposes.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. It's not too hard to find lists of names made by fans; it's the gender-separation that I need.

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

Well, you could to a heuristically-based analysis to try to guess which names are male and which... oh, right.

[silkiemom.livejournal.com]

When do you need the lists by? In case I decided to take it on as a project in my copious spare time?

[flynngrrl.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you're going to do something interesting with the information... can I ask what?

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

i would be interested to know what this is all about.

[nubianamy.livejournal.com]

What about non-human Earth-based societies, such as that in Watership Down?

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Insofar as the rabbits have names that are almost exclusively English words, it's not helpful for my purposes.

[nubianamy.livejournal.com]

There are lots of other books like that, though, so would that work?

[littleowl.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'll grab "The Dragonbone Chair" for in-flight reading and try to get that out for you.