[the_old_crowd] Re: Let's Try This Again: Which Came First, the JKR or the Barr?
Kat Macfarlane
katherinemacfarlan at ...
Fri Oct 3 06:33:10 UTC 2008
Um, er... If you're referring to the coeurl, the crew called him Pussy,
not Fluffy. (Neat cat, by the way. I wish they could have tamed him. He
reminds me of my boy Tommy, who has lots of attitude and has also
figured out how to open the refrigerator when he's feeling peckish.)
Nothing in the _Space Beagle_ saga is named Fluffy (the coeurl is the
only being who is remotely fluffy). So it looks like we're back to
Square 1.
Ms Nevada, ma'am, please?
Purrs,
--Gatta
Quantum me cogitis omnes!
Barry Arrowsmith wrote:
>
> >
> > I just finished reading Nevada Barr's _Track of the Cat_, and spotted
> > what I thought was a lovely nod to Hagrid. The line "Fluffy...It's a
> > joke we have" had to be a dead giveaway, right?
> >
> > And then I got to checking publication dates, and it turns out
> _Track of
> > the Cat_ was published in 1993, whereas _Harry Potter and the
> > Sorcerer's Stone_, in which Fluffy the three-headed hell hound figures,
> > didn't come out until 1998.
> >
> > So what's going on here?
> >
>
> Wotcher.
> Unlikely there's a connection IMO. Nevada Barr isn't widely read over
> here in the UK even now, and there would probably have been even fewer
> UK readers back in the mid 90s.
>
> However.... is Ms Barr a fan of A. E. Van Vogt, I wonder? Because there's
> a very nasty psyche-gobbling cat-like monster in 'The Voyage of the Space
> Beagle' (and the shorter story 'Black Destroyer' that was expanded
> into TVotSB)
> - that is if this tired old brain ain't gone wonky yet, referred to as
> 'Fluffy' - and
> that book has been around since 1950.
>
> Interestingly, it's also credited with being the inspiration for the
> film "Alien',
> though that's pushing it a bit far, I think. Either that, or they
> changed the plot
> a helluva lot.
>
> Kneasy
>
>
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