Literary References

Literature and fiction refer to earlier literature and fiction. We are who and what we are because, among other reasons, we know about Homer and Shakespeare. This is one of those posts where I started to compile a list and the list did not stop. To begin with, Poul Anderson refers to William Shakespeare in A Midsummer Tempest, to HG Wells in There Will Be Time and to James Bond in The Corridors Of Time and incorporates Sherlock Holmes into "Time Patrol," as well as cameoing Holmes in A Midsummer Tempest.

However, Poul Anderson fans might be interested in some close parallels:

James Joyce's Ulysses is structurally based on Homer's Odyssey and, in Ulysses, Stehen Dedalus discusses Shakespeare;

CS Lewis refers to Wells in his Ransom Trilogy;

Ian Fleming refers to Holmes in From Russia, With Love;

Stieg Larsson refers to From Russia, With Love, Holmes, Miss Marple, Astrid Lindgren and the idea of a "time machine" in his Millennium Trilogy;

John Gardner wrote James Bond novels and a Moriarty Trilogy with Volume III entitled Moriarty;

Anthony Horowitz wrote a James Bond Trilogy and two Holmes sequels, the second entitled Moriarty;

one of Isaac Asimov's Black Widower stories is a discussion of Moriarty.

This post is occasioned by the fact that I am reading Horowitz's Moriarty and can recommend it to Anderson fans.