CONCORDANCE REFERENCE MATERIALS

The following pages have been prepared to make it relatively easy to look up the various codes I've created, sources and other references used in creating the Concordance.

Story Codes are five character codes unique to each individual Chandler story title. For example, The Broken Cycle's code is BRKCY. In the Page Index, each story's code is listed first, followed by the pages within that story where the reference can be found.

Publication Codes are five character codes unique to each individual publication that a Chandler story appears in - collections, anthologies and periodicals. For example, the Chandler collection The Rim Gods has the code RIMGD. In cases where the publication is a novel, the code will always be NOVEL and in cases where the publication is a collection, the code will always be COLLE.

In the final version of the Concordance, each story entered will be accompanied by a combined story and publication code which can be used to reference not only the title, but the source of the title. So, for example, the code RIMGDCOLLE would refer to the entire The Rim Gods collection of stories, where as the code RIMGDRIMGD would refer to the short story The Rim Gods, found within the collection also entitled The Rim Gods. Had I entered the version of the story printed in Galaxy magazine, the entry would have been RIMGDGALAX. In this way, each appearance of a story can be given a unique code for reference purposes.

UPDATE: Story Codes and Publication Codes have now been updated into their final form.

Work Progress contains an updated tally of the stories which have been entered into the database and that can be found in the Concordance indexes. As a story is completed, this page will be updated. This page also contains the publication data for the specific version of the story used for data entry purposes. If you want to check references, you'll need to refer to this list. This section has recently had data entry statistics added to it.

Site Updates contains major changes, edits and additions to the site (as opposed to changes and updates to the Concordance itself). If you've been here before and only want to see what has changed, check this page.

Sources contains the reference materials used in putting all of this information together. I've not footnoted things yet - please be patient.

Subject Categories lists the general organizational categories I've created for the Concordance and provides a definition of the contents of each category.

Concordance Organization is my attempt to explain what the Concordance is and how it is being put together.