(urth) I Claudius
Andy Robertson
andywrobertson at clara.co.uk
Thu Sep 7 00:49:46 PDT 2006
Russell Wodell writes:
> Graves' Claudius novels seem an obvious inspiration for BOTNS.
>
> But I wonder if there isn't an intervening source in a Graves rip-off: A.E. van Vogt's fix-up Empire of the Sun (1957).
EMPIRE OF THE ATOM. Gorgeous tripe from AEVV, but having read it recently
I doubt there's a close link: the style is all wrong, and VV is really
writing about the pains of being a superhuman/subhuman mutant.
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