Re: Adaptations and borrowing..

One of S.M. Stirling's earlier  books and some overtones of Faf and the
Mouser! I cannot for the life of me remember the title.

charley

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:19 AM, Cahill, Colleen <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>



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Charley
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