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   Dan Drake to genewardsmith@gmail.com   
   Re: Pull of the Narnia marketing machine   
   09 Jan 06 20:10:01   
   
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   From: dd@dandrake.com   
      
   On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:03:21 UTC, "Gene Ward Smith"   
    wrote:   
      
   >...   
   >   
   > What are some of the sf books which came about as a reply to others? Of   
   > course more general sorts of responses, such as The Iron Dream, are   
   > interesting also.   
      
   Heinlein is said to have described _Stranger in a Strange Land_ as his   
   reponse to his own fascist utopia [his term, supposedly] in _Starship   
   Soldier_ or Trooper or whatever it was.   
      
      
   --   
   Dan Drake   
   dd@dandrake.com   
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