Re: Repurposed fiction (was Re: A Plague of Laumers)
- From: "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:30:41 GMT
"Dr. Dave" <dtate@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mike Schilling wrote:
>> "Dr. Dave" <dtate@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>
>
>> Also, Sheckly write a dire series of novels (three of them, IIRC) based
>> on the world of
>> "The Seventh Victim".
>
> This sounds a lot more like what I was looking for -- but is the
> tone/target audience/theme different in the novels from the original
> story? Just being bad sequels doesn't qualify them for what I was
> asking about.
They were less satiric in tone, more straight-ahead thrillers, but still
marketed as SF. Other than the setting, there wasn't much Sheckleyish about
them.
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