dag (02/15/83)
I believe that Vonnegut did not write this one - He's better than that usually. I heard somewhere that it was written by Allan Dean Foster or someone of that ilk. I'm not sure, though. Daniel Glasser ...!decvax!sultan!dag
mcewan (02/18/83)
#R:sultan:-15000:uiucdcs:12500019:000:223 uiucdcs!mcewan Feb 15 23:57:00 1983 "Venus on the Halfshell" was written by Philip Jose Farmer, under the name Kilgore Trout, who is a character in a Vonnegut novel. Farmer has written BILLIONS of stories under the names of all sorts of fictional characters.
jss (02/19/83)
For what it is worth, which is probably nothing, my copy of 'The Other Log of Phileas Fogg' is printed by DAW as by Philip Jose' Farmer, and copyright 1973 by PJF. 'The Adventure of the Peerless Peer by John H. Watson, M.D.', a Dell Book, edited by PJF, copyright 1974 by PJF. 'Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life', Bantam, by PJF, copyright 1973, 1975 by PJF. While 'Venus on the Half-Shell, by Kilgore Trout', a Dell Book, is copyright 1974,1975 by Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc. Now I don't know who PJF's agent is, and I don't know what politics may have occurred between Vonnegut and PJF or whomever, but it does look odd to me that VotHS would be the only one of several spoofs that PJF kept his name off of. judith !decvax!brunix!jss
mclure (03/09/83)
#R:sultan:-15000:sri-unix:13200010:000:303 sri-unix!mclure Feb 19 01:00:00 1983 Too bad the stories Farmer writes under his own name aren't any better. Farmer is one of my least liked authors. The "climax" of his Riverworld series was particularly bad. I often wonder what would have happened if the Riverworld idea had been handled by someone like Clavell, Pynchon, etc. Stuart