Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!bbncca!keesan From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris M. Keesan) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: The game's afoot! (& Kilgore Trout) Message-ID: <1310@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 17:09:27 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.1310 Posted: Thu Feb 7 17:09:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 06:26:56 EST References: <83@ISM780.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 24 ---------------------------- 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. -- Morris M. Keesan {decvax,linus,ihnp4,wivax,wjh12,ima}!bbncca!keesan keesan @ BBN-UNIX.ARPA