Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Red King, White King, Last Viking

Bryan Talbot says that Alice "...pervades our culture." (p. 132)

Poul Anderson wrote a Dominic Flandry story called "The White King's War";

Alan Moore's Miracleman, Book Two, is called The Red King Syndrome;

John le Carre wrote The Looking Glass War;

James Blish's John Amalfi thinks, "Curiouser and curiouser." (Cities In Flight, p. 251);

Talbot says that there is an Alice influence on Heinlein. (?)

In "The White King's War," incorporated into A Circus Of Hells, Flandry refers to a "'...rockinghorsefly...'" and a "'...bread-and-butterfly...'" (Young Flandry, CHAPTER EIGHT, p. 249) and almost says, "'Ahoy, ahoy, check.'" (CHAPTER NINE, p. 251)

Talbot summarizes every invasion of England but skips over Harald Hardrada's failed attempt at conquest. However, Anderson gives us this in his The Last Viking Trilogy.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I remember these Carrollian allusions in A CIRCUS OF HELLS. And, of course Flandry comparing the AI of Wayland to the sleeping and dreaming Red King.

And Chapter I of ORBIT UNLIMITED has Commissioner Svoboda thinking that it took a lot of running just to stay in one place. Another reference to the ALICE books!

Sean