brucec@iddic.UUCP (Bruce W. Cheney) (09/27/84)
Regarding "Venus on the Half-shell", Phillip Jose Farmer is usually credited with being the actual author. He is most famous for his "Riverworld" series. Anyone else have any other opinion? brucec
boyajian@akov75.DEC (10/02/84)
> Regarding "Venus on the Half-shell", Phillip Jose Farmer is usually > credited with being the actual author. He is most famous for his > "Riverworld" series. Anyone else have any other opinion? > > brucec Any other opinion about what? That Philip Jose Farmer is usually credited with being the author of VOTHS, or that he is most famous for the Riverworld series? There's no doubt about either one, aside from mentioning that not only is Farmer "usually credited" with having written VOTHS, he *very definitely* wrote it. He even had Vonnegut's permission to use the Trout name (see below). Farmer's also written a series of stories supposedly written by imaginary authors, most of which have popped up in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION over the last 10 or so years. > I too have heard that Phillip Jose Farmer wrote > the "Kilgore Trout Books" I also heard that Vonegut > was NOT amused, still I thought it was funny. > > Keenan > drutx!kcd Farmer has Vonnegut's full permission to write VOTHS as "Kilgore Trout". Vonnegut did really care. What made Vonnegut so upset as regards the book was that he didn't like everyone assuming that it was *him* that wrote it. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA