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[John Watkins]

Undoubtedly an inadvertent omission--SS has aspects of Lewis's Ransom books.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:05 AM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> David Stockhoff:
>> But another likely factor is that BotNS was written with dozens,
>> if not hundreds, of literary predecessors in mind, and fantasy
>> and satire are rarely far apart. Urth's society is recognizable;
>> the Whorl's is not, or at least not so readily. And the later books'
>> antecedents seems to lie less in Chesterton
>> and Vance than in older myth. IMHO.
>>
>
> Well, the older myths are certainly close to the surface in SS, as they are
> in LS. But for literary references, I recommend you read ER Burrough's
> "Mars" series and Lan Wright's "The Last Hope of Earth" (aka "The Creeping
> Shroud"). Also, Wright's "Pictures of Pavanne" has some rather obvious
> homages in LS/SS. I haven't read anything else by Wright, but it wouldn't
> surprise me. Also, Dan'l recently identified Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky"
> as an identifiable reference. "Pinocchio" is an important source. Yarboro's
> "Hyacinths" about about artists who dream stories for televised
> entertainment might have been on Wolfe's mind.  Fleming's "Brazilian
> Adventure" is a source for LS. I haven't re-read it since reading SS, but it
> wouldn't be unlikely since it is about a boat ride up the Amazon river.
>
> There are almost certainly more. SS has an aroma of many secret flavorings
> which I cannot identify.
>
> J.
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