I have a question for the man about Haunted Air.
There is a (very minor) spoiler in it, so it is under the shottle.
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There is a (very minor) spoiler in it, so it is under the shottle.
Is the name Shurio Coppe a reference to Sturgeon's Shottle Bop?
Trying to be nice
Lysistrata Wrote:Give that lady a cigar (or a Gauloise, perhaps?)! I believe you might be the very first to catch on.Is the name Shurio Coppe a reference to Sturgeon's Shottle Bop?
FPW
FAQ
"It means 'Ask the next question.' Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created." Theodore Sturgeon.
It only took a few years to make the connection - and yet I loved and re-read Shottle Bop in the meanwhile :p
Trying to be nice
Lysistrata Wrote:It only took a few years to make the connection - and yet I loved and re-read Shottle Bop in the meanwhile :p
Nice job Lys!!!! I love those "very" obscure referances FPW puts into his books. Now, if you would be so kind, please explain "Shottle Bop" and why did FPW referance it in the book. Thanks Lys!
icarusflu Wrote:Shottle Bop is a Theodore Sturgeon story (it is in Vol. 2 of his collected stories) about a man who gets a magic bottle filled with "What he needs". Really good story, just reread it myself with is being mentioned in this thread.
Icarus
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Interesting.
I had never heard of Shottle Bop, so when I read The Haunted Air, I just saw "Curio Shoppe" with the first letters of the words exchanged.
But not twigging to this for a long time reminds me of a villainess in L. Neil Smiths novel The Nagasaki Vector.
In the novel, her name was Edna Janof. (And Neil also has a tendency to make anagrams of names.) It was nearly a decade before I finally realized that Edna Janof was an anagram of Jane Fonda.
Ken V.
I had never heard of Shottle Bop, so when I read The Haunted Air, I just saw "Curio Shoppe" with the first letters of the words exchanged.
But not twigging to this for a long time reminds me of a villainess in L. Neil Smiths novel The Nagasaki Vector.
In the novel, her name was Edna Janof. (And Neil also has a tendency to make anagrams of names.) It was nearly a decade before I finally realized that Edna Janof was an anagram of Jane Fonda.
Ken V.
Having just done a search on Sturgeon, I read a couple of short stories of his on scifi.com . Reminded me of dydeetown world. But I did come up with an interesting tidbit. This might be common knowledge since I've only been on for a short time.
http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/misc/question.html
http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/misc/question.html
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." Albert Einstein
Lysistrata Wrote:It only took a few years to make the connection - and yet I loved and re-read Shottle Bop in the meanwhile :p
Hee-hee! Well done, Lys! Damn good and damn right!