Re: Adaptations and borrowing..

Hope- you actually *read* Fifty Shades of Grey? My condolences.

charley

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:40 AM, O'Keeffe, Hope <[email protected]> wrote:

> And then there's the reverse: Fifty Shades of Grey's origin as Twilight
> fan fiction...
>
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> On Behalf Of Colleen Cahill
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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
> [email protected]
>
>
> 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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Charley
Desert Sailor