Before There Were Mashups, There Were Science Fictional Retellings
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 at
9:59 am
Over at the Kirkus Reviews blog, I talk about Science Fictional Retellings.
To my mind these are a different thing than mashups. Head on over to she why.
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What about Robert Silverberg’s Downward to the Earth? A retelling of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Comes with a short story called “The Secret Sharer” which closely recasts Conrad’s story of the same name. Ray Bradbury wrote “Leviathan 99″ as an homage to Melville’s Moby Dick.
Good addition!