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From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris M. Keesan)
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Subject: Re: The game's afoot! (& Kilgore Trout)
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 17:09:27 EST
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    Incidentally, the collection "Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space"
includes the story "A Scarletin Study", by "Jonathan Swift Somers III", which
is Philip Jose Farmer's sequel (sort of) to "Venus on the Half Shell" by
"Kilgore Trout".
  To review:  a few months ago, there were some queries in this newsgroup as to
whether Kilgore Trout had written anything since "Venus on the Half Shell".
The answer is that Kilgore Trout is a fictional character invented by Kurt
Vonnegut, appearing in some of Vonnegut's novels.  "Venus on the Half Shell"
was written by Philip Jose Farmer using "Kilgore Trout" as a pseudonym.  One
of the characters in "Venus on the Half Shell" is a writer named "Jonathan
Swift Somers III", who writes a series of detective stories about a dog
detective named "Ralph von Wau Wau".  "A Scarletin Study" is a  
"Ralph von Wau Wau" story by Farmer writing under the name of Somers III.

P.S.  Has anyone other than me noticed the blatant typo on the title page of
"Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space"?  I mentioned it to Blujay Books'
director of advertising, marketing, etc., and he said neither he nor anyone
else at Bluejay had noticed it.
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			    Morris M. Keesan
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