Re: Adaptations and borrowing..
Kevin Mulcahy <[email protected]>
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Pat Murphy does a science fictional homage to The Hobbit (featuring, if memory serves, clones instead of dwarves). I think the title plays off Tolkien's subtitle--There and Back Again. Delany's Nova plays off of Moby Dick. And Gene Roddenberry cited the Horatio Hornblower novels as an inspiration for the original Star Trek. Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Fischer" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 8:44:41 AM Subject: Re: Adaptations and borrowing.. There also was Brian Aldiss' Frankenstein Unbound and his An Island Called Moreau. On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 3:51 AM, Helge Moulding <[email protected]> wrote: Charles Sheffield wrote at least two science fiction re-imaginings of literary classics - and to my reading quite intentionally so, not something like a Rorschach test for readers. The first was "Godspeed," which is a retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island," and the other is "The Billion Dollar Boy," an SF version of Rudyard Kipling's "Captains Courageous." -- Helge -- Kevin P. Mulcahy, PhD Humanities Librarian Alexander Library, Rutgers University 169 College Avenue New Brunswick NJ 08901-1163 [email protected] (848) 932-6108