boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) (07/20/85)
> From: spar!freeman (Jay Reynolds Freeman) > In article <492@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes: > >>BTW, did those stories by Clarke create the "tall tales in a bar" subgenre, >>or did someone else do it even earlier? > > Wasn't James Branch Cabell (correct spelling optional) an earlier SFnal (or > at least fantasy-nal) perpetrator of such stories? No. I suspect that you're thinking of Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, whose tales of Mr. Jorkens and the Billiards Club appeared at least as early as the 30's (the first --- of five --- collections appeared in 1931), While these aren't strictly *bar* stories, they are close enough. De Camp and Pratt's Gavagan's Bar stories also pre-date Clarke's White Hart by a few years. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA <"Bibliography is my business">
peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) (07/31/85)
P.G. Wodehouse.