[net.sf-lovers] venus

colbert (02/18/83)

Venus On The Half-Shell was written by Philip Jose Farmer as a
joke - PJF admires  Vonegut and loves to use fake names.
( Peter Jarius Frigate (Riverworld) and Phileas Fogg are Farmer personas.)

PJF was pretending to be Kilgore Trout - a sf author in some of Vonegut's
books. People thought Vonegut wrote Venus which upset Vonegut greatly.

Farmer himself relates this in one of his volumes of short stories.

				Charles Colbert
				pyuxjj!colbert
				(moving to Whippany soon)