Re: Adaptations and borrowing..

A classic example, perhaps not as well known now as it used to be, is Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (variant title Tiger, Tiger--or maybe Tyger, Tyger--a reference to the Blake poem).  Bester adapts much of the plot of The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, and there are likely many other allusions (certainly a riff on Dickens in the opening paragraphs).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colleen Cahill" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:25:56 AM
Subject: Re: 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
>

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