Dueling authors.... well, ideas anyway.

On 26 Jun 2006 17:16:52 -0700, wrote:

... Warren Zevon's "All Night Long"...
..
Quite a talent lost. "Dolan, the Headless Thompson Gunner" and the
rest.

In books, Jerry Pournelle's anthology series There Will Be War! begat
lewis Shiner's When The Music's Over.

Nancy Kress said that Beggars in Spain was written in response to both
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed.

And of coiurse, one could consider George Orwell's 1984, Arthur
Koestler's Darkness At Noon, and Aleskandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day In
the Life of Ivan Denisovich as responses to Karl Marx's Communist
Manifesto and Vladimir Lenin's What Is To Be Done...

Tsk, I should have remembered 1984 at least from Lit class, but it was
always scheduled in the morning ....


Lawrence Person
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Thanks again,

Dave