@RUTGERS.ARPA:A.ALDERSON@[36.48.0.1] (02/25/85)
From: Alderson@Score >a Vonnegut novel VENUS ON THE HALF SHELL which has some psuedonym for >an author name great giggleto read not quite sci-fi though This is NOT a Vonnegut novel. The author is "Killgore Trout," which Vonnegut afficionados will recognize as the name of the favorite author of most of his characters. This incarnation of K. T. is none other than Phil Farmer, in one of the most drawn-out literary hoaxes in recent history: Everyone in VENUS likes the stories of "Jonathan Swift Somers, III" about a talking German Shepherd named "Ralph von Wau Wau" (I kid you not). I've read a couple of these in F&SF; I don't remember if the characters in these had a favorite author or not, but I sort of lost interest at that point, anyway. Bibliography may not be my business, but all those years in grad school made it easy... Rich Alderson@{Score, Sierra} -------