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10/19/2009 1:41:01 PM
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John E. Rogers, Jr.
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Okay, we did this once before, ages back. The deal is simple. You merge two famous SF novels or an SF novel and a well-known novel of another genre - to humorous effect. Then you provide one or two sentences of explanation.
For instance:
LOOKING FOR MR. ZANZIBAR
[Seemingly innocent young female school teacher drifts into overpopulated megacity of NYC. Gets 'dicted to Too Much and Skullbustium. Becomes a shiggy. Goes downhill from there.]
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10/19/2009 4:49:57 PM
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Bill Moonroe
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Got your abominations right here, John.
Sex and the City and The Stars: Arthur C Clarke and Candace Bushnell's collaboration about the sex lives of four shiggies in the far future
Twilight in Valentine's Castle: Stephanie Meyers meets Robert Silverberg
Maximum Ride: Hunter's Run: who cares what it's about? It's got James Patterson's name in big print. It'll sell.
The Dirty Dancers at the End of Time: Baby is back, learning to salsa with Jerhek Carnelian.
Thomas the Tanked Killdozer
George Lucas has gotten together with a certain politician to rework the Star Wars universe again:
The Audacity of A New Hope
edited by Bill Moonroe on 10/19/2009
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"A thagizer? What's that do? Hey, what's this button for? Uh-oh. Sorry about that, man. It'll grow back, right?"
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10/19/2009 4:57:46 PM
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John E. Rogers, Jr.
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I love it!
Inspired and depraved at the same time!
How about "Dunesbury" - a politically-savvy comic strip set on Arrakis - poking fun at the Beast Rabban (an empty space wearing a Harkonnen dunce cap) - and lampooning the trendy but wacky intrigues of the House Atreides?
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10/19/2009 5:19:56 PM
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Byron Bailey
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Didn't F&SF have a humor competition that did this?
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Yeah, I weigh 800 pounds. All muscle. Really. Well, mostly muscle. Well, the doctor said that I had muscles -- hundreds of them.
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10/19/2009 5:23:55 PM
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John E. Rogers, Jr.
Posts 2170
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Was it funny?
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10/19/2009 5:38:29 PM
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Byron Bailey
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My entry apparently wasn't. Here's the winners, though.
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Yeah, I weigh 800 pounds. All muscle. Really. Well, mostly muscle. Well, the doctor said that I had muscles -- hundreds of them.
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10/19/2009 5:46:12 PM
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John E. Rogers, Jr.
Posts 2170
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I'd give the top nod to Soylent Green was My Valley.
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10/19/2009 5:49:15 PM
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CWJ
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Those are pretty funny so far
Here are my unfunny attempts:
"A Canticle for the Big Lebowski" The Dude tries to keep knowledge of surfing alive in post-apocalyptic Venice Beach.
"Harold and Kumar Go to the High Castle" Aimless stoners consult the I Ching, don't realize the US lost WWII.
(Variation on a previous suggestion): "Sex and the City on the Edge of Forever" Kirk, Spock, and McCoy go back in time and reminisce over their sexual conquests.
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"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." Paul Dirac
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10/19/2009 6:01:28 PM
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Kevin C.
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Solaris Also Rises
Disillusioned scientists on a far-flung planet confront their angst - and lose.
Fear and Loathing on Dune
A young man is introduced to "spice" and has a long, strange, trip on Arakis.
To Kill a Fuzzy
Against his wishes, a lawyer on a frontier planet must defend a despised bigwig accused of killing a popular hominid.
The Godfather Who Sold the Moon
Seeing business opportunities in space, Don Harriman makes the world an offer it can't refuse.
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10/19/2009 6:06:49 PM
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Kevin C.
Posts 1686
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And now I've got to get this abomination out of my head:
The Duke of Arakis
Good ol' boy Paul Antreides stays just one side of the law to foil the schemes of Boss Harkonnen.
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10/19/2009 6:10:23 PM
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Byron Bailey
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"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream a Canticle For Leibowitz."
Enduring torture for eternity at the hands of the unholy supercomputer AM, our hero finds solace in religion.
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Yeah, I weigh 800 pounds. All muscle. Really. Well, mostly muscle. Well, the doctor said that I had muscles -- hundreds of them.
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10/19/2009 6:11:34 PM
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Alex
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The Puppet Masters of Reality
Alien lifeforms seize control of the minds of the members of a mediocre R and B band and turn them into the inventors of Loud and Terrible, Heavy Metal Music.
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We try not to let over-zealous adherance to facts interfere with the spinning of a good yarn, or a bad joke.
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10/19/2009 6:12:01 PM
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John E. Rogers, Jr.
Posts 2170
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Very nice, CWJ and Kevin!
How about:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep that Look Up?
[A double-helping of post-apocalyptic merriment! A contract dick for the SFPD hunts down disgruntled (and nervous) sheep in an ecologically devastated America that is rapidly going to Mercer in a hand basket.]
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10/19/2009 6:17:59 PM
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Alex
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A Galactic Empire of Dunces
Politics as usual. Plus weenies.
edited by Alex on 10/19/2009
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We try not to let over-zealous adherance to facts interfere with the spinning of a good yarn, or a bad joke.
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10/19/2009 6:24:10 PM
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John E. Rogers, Jr.
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Yes, Alex! Feel the Farce. Let it flow through you. Use it.
Dreamcatcher in the Rye
[A nightmarish alien infestation in the north woods of Maine must come to terms with its own shortcomings and its inability to fit in]
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10/19/2009 6:30:45 PM
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Byron Bailey
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The Sound and the Fury at the Mountains of Madness.
Something very sick, disturbing, and poignant is happening way down in the the Deep Freeze South in the heart of Yoknapacthulhu County, Antarctica.
edited by Byron Bailey on 10/19/2009
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Yeah, I weigh 800 pounds. All muscle. Really. Well, mostly muscle. Well, the doctor said that I had muscles -- hundreds of them.
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10/19/2009 6:38:54 PM
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John E. Rogers, Jr.
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Glorious stuff, Byron.
The Old Man and the Dirac Sea
[Old Cuban fisherman paddles skiff into the past while pursuing big fish. Realizes that if he comes back to the present, fish will be eaten by sharks. Delays as long as possible.]
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10/19/2009 6:47:12 PM
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Byron Bailey
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The Grapes of Wrath or All the Seas With Oysters
A recipe book to replace the severely limited ones that lead to so much starvation during the Dust Bowl.
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Yeah, I weigh 800 pounds. All muscle. Really. Well, mostly muscle. Well, the doctor said that I had muscles -- hundreds of them.
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10/19/2009 6:48:13 PM
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CWJ
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dimension . Martials artists tap the power of superstrings.
The Da Vinci Fortran Code. A secret society guards the hidden truth: Jesus was a hacker.
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"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." Paul Dirac
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10/19/2009 6:54:36 PM
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CWJ
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The Ben Stein Intersection. A monotonic economist explore lost Earth legends.
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"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." Paul Dirac
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