Re: Adaptations and borrowing..

I adored There and Back Again; Murphy did a wonderful job of capturing the feel of The Hobbit, starting with a norbit who lives in an asteroid.  How she interprets wizardry, dragons and the one ring are truly delightful.

Now I want to read the book again. ☺

Colleen
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From: Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Mulcahy
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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


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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]<mailto:[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."
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