Re: Adaptations and borrowing..

"Cahill, Colleen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.sf.literature
Message-ID <7B057A8503C70A49A063E83364DF8F756B848C6C74@LCXCLMB02.LCDS.LOC.GOV>
Mike,
   I just finished reading "The Godstone of Venus" in the Old Venus anthology and felt a hint of Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.  Was that intentional or just me?  Really a great story!

Colleen
Colleen Cahill
[email protected]



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Resnick [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 2:03 PM
To: Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv; Cahill, Colleen
Subject: Re: [SF-LIT] Adaptations and borrowing..

On Tue, March 10, 2015 6:25 am, Colleen Cahill wrote:
> 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]

I think we all have influences to greater or lesser extents. My "Harry the Book" stories are a homage to Damon Runyon, THE SOUL EATER was my answer to MOBY-DICK, "Mrs. Vamberry Takes a Trip" was a homage to Thorne Smith, etc.

-- Mike Resnick
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.