I particularly like the passage in which a Poul Anderson character says that Anderson's Maurai stories "'...soon dropped into complete obscurity'" and the very similar passage in which M expresses governmental disdain for the series of popular books about James Bond.
Here is a third passage for this collection. Swamp Thing is a fantasy series. Its title character, a plant elemental, is the protector of the environment. Watching men destroy trees, he comments:
"All for what? More paper...on which to scribble...fantasies and political slogans...more quick profits...with which to invest...in further exploitations?"
-Rick Veitch, Swamp Thing: Regenesis (New York, 2004), p. 69.
That word, "fantasies," leaps off the page of a fantasy...
All three authors comment on their own works through the medium of a fictional character.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And your comments here reminds me of how irritated I sometimes get from seeing how, in an all too real way, many of the works of Poul Anderson have become obscure! Esp. when the overrated works of Isaac Asimov are more frequently found in bookstores.
The "self reference" Anderson showed in that character in THERE WILL BE TIME mentioning how the Maurai stories soon fell into obscurity seems to be their author ruefully expecting that happen to his works in general.
Ad astra! Sean
Paul
'That word, "fantasies," leaps off the page of a fantasy...'
Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay includes a passage in which a werewolf tries to warn a fellow that he can't hope to succeed in fighting a golem: "Attention! This is the real world calling!"
Kaor, DAVID!
Ha, ha, that bit from Sir Terry was amusing!
Ad astra! Sean
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