Re: Adaptations and borrowing..

And then there's the reverse: Fifty Shades of Grey's origin as Twilight fan fiction...

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From: Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Colleen Cahill
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [SF-LIT] Adaptations and borrowing..

Charley,
   The first two authors who jumped to my mind are Matthew Hughes
(http://www.matthewhughes.org/) and Chris Dolley (chris-dolley.com), both of whom have written science fiction homages to P.D. Wodehouse's Bertie and Jeeve's stories. They both captured the good hearted humor of the original works and are quite a bit of fun.

  This is just the tip of the ice burg, as I am sure most authors have some literary influence.  

Colleen
Colleen Cahill
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On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 08:39:42 -0600, Charley Seavey <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Cruising through the public library yesterday I came across a copy of a 
>long ago Poul Anderson novel *The Game of Empire. *"First new Flandry 
>novel in years" is the blurb on the cover- published in 1985 as it 
>turns out. I loved the Flandry stories all those years ago, and did not 
>remember reading this one.
>
>About two pages in I started thinking "this reads a whole lot like the 
>opening chapter of Kipling's *Kim." *A bit more and a religious pilgrim 
>appears. Along towards the end of the chapter he refers to the other 
>character as "...little sprite of all the world."  Which nailed it for me.
>
>Which brought up the question in my mind: how many other 
>writers/stories owe greater or large amounts to earlier writers? David 
>Drake makes no bones about his RCN series having roots in Patrick 
>O'Brian's nautical tales, although his plots are drawn from history 
>back. I suspect Shakespeare must have contributed a plot or two. What 
>else occurs to the assembled readers as having roots in other literary 
>streams? Some must be obvious, maybe not others. Discussion should ensue.
>
>charley
>
>--
>Charley
>Desert Sailor
>