Late Night Link-Ups

This is the part of the evening when I try to stop blogging but then find connections in other works of fiction. The robot in Poul Anderson's "Quixote and the Windmill" has X-ray vision, telescopic vision and microscopic vision - Superman's visual powers. (The robot is also strong and invulnerable to physical attack.)

I have just reread an Inspector Montalbano novel in which Montalbano meets a guy who is the spitting image of Clark Kent and am now reading a Matt Helm novel in which Helm's boss, Mac, tells him that he, Helm, might have a mild superman complex. References to Superman or, more generally to "superman," are embedded in our culture. Before remembering any more recent examples, I will say good night. Good night.