[the_old_crowd] Re: Let's Try This Again: Which Came First, the JKR or the Barr?

[ewe2]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Barry Arrowsmith
<arrowsmithbt at ...> wrote:
>
>  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
>

And now I have the mental image of Ripley softly singing "Here Fluffy,
where are you where arrreee yooooou" in search of the Alien :-\

-- 
Emacs vs. Vi flamewars are a pointless waste of time. Vi is the best