XPost: rec.arts.books.childrens, alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.sf.written   
   XPost: mn.humor   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 9 Jan 2006 10:14:08 -0800, "scott34494@yahoo.com"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Gene Ward Smith wrote:   
   >> westprog wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > No bad thing in itself. The Forever War was in part a response to Starship   
   >> > Troopers. Angry writers producing rebuttals can produce good stuff, if it   
   >> > isn't just replying paragraph by paragraph.   
   >>   
   >> And Banewreaker was a response to Tolkien, which didn't improve the   
   >> writing any--in fact, stylistically the result was a disaster.   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >Not really SF, but Lord of the Flies was a response to a Utopian novel   
   >titled Coral Island, also about a group of boys stranded on an island.   
      
   And "Foe" was a response to "Robinson Crusoe", though not really a children's   
   book.   
      
   But I don't think Pullman's books relate to Lewis's in the same way as   
   Golding's does to Ballantyne's. In the latter the kids are marooned on a   
   desert island, and the island environments are similar.   
      
   Pullman and Lewis both have children travelling to different worlds, but the   
   environments are very dissimilar.   
      
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