tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post30024398746748911..comments2024-03-20T19:40:58.078-05:00Comments on The OF Blog: I wonder if this has occurred to others as wellLarry Nolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16001420558511460998noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-81689891581359647582009-01-30T11:53:00.000-06:002009-01-30T11:53:00.000-06:00although his novels are more than just mystery nov...<I>although his novels are more than just mystery novels. </I><BR/><BR/>Not the more than/transcending the genre discourse, I hope?<BR/><BR/>A couple of posts on this phenomenon on the crime/mystery side of the pond:<BR/><A HREF="http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-does-one-crime-author-pay-tribute.html" REL="nofollow">How does one crime author pay tribute to another </A><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/2008/07/when-one-crime-writer-honors-another-by.html#links" REL="nofollow"> When one crime writer honors another by name </A><BR/><BR/>Camilleri's Montalbano and Nesser's Van Veeteren are the most famous cases.<BR/><BR/>Nesser is a serial offender -three minor characters is in his novels are called Joensu, Kellerman and Mankel, all crime fiction authors.marcohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10505120530405862702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-76648027644544313022009-01-29T08:06:00.000-06:002009-01-29T08:06:00.000-06:00Wilkie Collins is the narrator of Drood and while ...Wilkie Collins is the narrator of Drood and while I read and enjoyed both The Moonstone and Woman in White a while ago, I had no idea he was so well known in his time - though he is credited by some with starting the mystery genre. <BR/><BR/>Ian McDonald poked some good-natured fun at some contemporary British authors in The River of Gods - the Hamilton laws, the Auley this or that<BR/><BR/> There is a Lt. Stross in J. Scalzi Ghost Brigades and actually many characters are named after writers, scientists - it is an explicit convention in the novel<BR/><BR/> Dumas is named in tons of novels, the most recent one that I enjoyed is the historical thriller Napoleon's Pyramids by W. Dietrich in which Dumas' father, "The Black General" has a cameo role as the commander of Napoleon's cavalry in Egypt, and the main villain when challenged to a gun/sword duel by Dumas but stopped by Bonaparte, offers him the "Cagliostro" duel in return, involving eating a roasted pig, and when the general refuses and storms out of the command tent, the villain has a Dumas-like Cagliostro moment, saying that "he was wise to refuse; this way he will get back to France and father a son who will be very famous one day..."Liviuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04615405766065227026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-37271585833299866672009-01-28T22:03:00.000-06:002009-01-28T22:03:00.000-06:00I love that novel, and Woman in White perhaps even...I love that novel, and <I>Woman in White</I> perhaps even more. I'd highly, highly recommend him, although his novels are more than just mystery novels.Larry Nolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001420558511460998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-79302858764110692042009-01-28T21:43:00.000-06:002009-01-28T21:43:00.000-06:00I'm reading Drood right now and finding out Wilkie...I'm reading <B>Drood</B> right now and finding out Wilkie Collins, who many feel wrote one of the first mystery novels - <B>The Moonstone</B>.RobBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04014122096561992311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-60212124399367188192009-01-28T19:11:00.000-06:002009-01-28T19:11:00.000-06:00Totally obvious and pretty lame on my part but Joh...Totally obvious and pretty lame on my part but John Keats from Dan Simmons' Hyperion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-19375480455843479922009-01-28T16:40:00.000-06:002009-01-28T16:40:00.000-06:00Cool. I know George R.R. Martin has done that wit...Cool. I know George R.R. Martin has done that with a few author friends of his, but I didn't know that about Watts or Moorcock.Larry Nolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001420558511460998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-484257643212489002009-01-28T16:18:00.000-06:002009-01-28T16:18:00.000-06:00There is character called Korzeniowski -Joseph Con...There is character called Korzeniowski -Joseph Conrad's real name- in Michael Moorcock's "The Warlord of the Air". There is also Katje Borgesius in "Gravity's Rainbow" and two characters named Ballard and Clarke in "A Niche", a Peter Watts short story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com