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Simmons has also referenced VN in another novel, _Endymion_:
"There had been only a few hundred hawking mats in existence, ever, and this was
the first one -- created by the Old Earth lepidopterist and legendary EM-systems
inventor Vladimir Sholokov shortly after the destruction of Old Earth. Sholokov
-- already in his seventies, standard, had fallen madly in love with his
teenage niece, Alotila, and had created this flying carpet to win her love in
return. After a passionate interlude, the teenager had spurned the old man,
Sholokov had killed himself on New Earth only weeks after perfecting the
current Hawking spin-drive, and the carpet had been lost for centuries..."
(I've got this bit in Nabokovilia, but will add _Illium_ soon:
http://www.fulmerford.com/waxwing/nabobilia/nv22.html)
Incidentally, I love the Book Search feature in Amazon; there are references to
Darkbloom in these two novels:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1887128557
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400062500/
and to Humbert Humbert all over the place (Anne Rice, Lawrence Block, and a host
of other writers):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060928514
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679753796
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/034538475X
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0515093556
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060198303
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031298586X
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312252854
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380812916
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060542543
- - http://www.fulmerford.com
>>> chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu 03/29/05 7:34 PM >>>
Dear Don and List...
Forgive me if this is old hat and I'm simply making a fool of myself. But
I was having a free read in a Johannesburg bookshop last night and I came
across an SF opus by a writer called Dan Simmons, entitled "Ilium". It
seems to leap back and forth from the Trojan War to some distant future,
where a character called Daeman travels to an Ardis Hall, intent on
seducing the lady of the manor -- the creamy-skinned, sensuous,
raven-haired, ultra-cultivated Ada. They discuss lepidopterology. It's too
blatant to be plagiarism, so does it count as a VN sighting? When I got to
page 50, Exclusive Books closed, so I was left in limbo. Does anyone have
a comment?
Hope you're all well...
Tom (Rymour)
----- End forwarded message -----
EDNOTE. 'Tis indeed a legitimate VN sighting. Dan Simmons is apparently a
high-end S-F writer. I amazoned him and see he quotes Proust as well.
----- End forwarded message -----
"There had been only a few hundred hawking mats in existence, ever, and this was
the first one -- created by the Old Earth lepidopterist and legendary EM-systems
inventor Vladimir Sholokov shortly after the destruction of Old Earth. Sholokov
-- already in his seventies, standard, had fallen madly in love with his
teenage niece, Alotila, and had created this flying carpet to win her love in
return. After a passionate interlude, the teenager had spurned the old man,
Sholokov had killed himself on New Earth only weeks after perfecting the
current Hawking spin-drive, and the carpet had been lost for centuries..."
(I've got this bit in Nabokovilia, but will add _Illium_ soon:
http://www.fulmerford.com/waxwing/nabobilia/nv22.html)
Incidentally, I love the Book Search feature in Amazon; there are references to
Darkbloom in these two novels:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1887128557
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400062500/
and to Humbert Humbert all over the place (Anne Rice, Lawrence Block, and a host
of other writers):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060928514
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679753796
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/034538475X
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0515093556
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060198303
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031298586X
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312252854
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380812916
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060542543
- - http://www.fulmerford.com
>>> chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu 03/29/05 7:34 PM >>>
Dear Don and List...
Forgive me if this is old hat and I'm simply making a fool of myself. But
I was having a free read in a Johannesburg bookshop last night and I came
across an SF opus by a writer called Dan Simmons, entitled "Ilium". It
seems to leap back and forth from the Trojan War to some distant future,
where a character called Daeman travels to an Ardis Hall, intent on
seducing the lady of the manor -- the creamy-skinned, sensuous,
raven-haired, ultra-cultivated Ada. They discuss lepidopterology. It's too
blatant to be plagiarism, so does it count as a VN sighting? When I got to
page 50, Exclusive Books closed, so I was left in limbo. Does anyone have
a comment?
Hope you're all well...
Tom (Rymour)
----- End forwarded message -----
EDNOTE. 'Tis indeed a legitimate VN sighting. Dan Simmons is apparently a
high-end S-F writer. I amazoned him and see he quotes Proust as well.
----- End forwarded message -----