Re: Adaptations and borrowing..

Hell no, I just know its origin story.  I have, however, read Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey, if that counts. Patrick Rothfuss posted a great picture of his 50 copies of it.

From: Charley Seavey [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 11:20 AM
To: Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv; O'Keeffe, Hope
Subject: Re: [SF-LIT] 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]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Colleen Cahill
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:26 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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<http://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]<mailto:[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
>
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>Charley
>Desert Sailor
>



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