Which is in fact excerpted from this book: http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2011/03/do-metaphors-dream-of-literal-sleep.html
― Easy, Spooky Action! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 02:52 (seven years ago) link
John Brunner:
The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoll'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread
― alimosina, Tuesday, 11 October 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
So that's makes at least two from that poem.
― Easy, Spooky Action! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 October 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
So now Norman Spinrad's "No Direction Home" I guess. *ducks*
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
lol
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
That article I mentioned points out that Philip José Farmer get a title from John Donne's Holy Sonnet VIIhttp://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/holysonnet7.php
From death, you numberless infinitiesOf souls, and to your scattered bodies go
and Ray Bradbury got "There Will Come Soft Rains" from a Sara Teasdale poem with the same titlehttps://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/there-will-come-soft-rains
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
― Special Derrida Blues (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 October 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
Reverse engineering: Hamlet's "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" had to be used by someone. Sure enough, Charles Sheffield wrote a novel called "Tomorrow and Tomorrow," and Kurt Vonnegut used all three tomorrows for the title of a short story.
― alimosina, Monday, 17 October 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
Anyone can do this. "All our yesterdays"? Yup, a time-travel novel by Cristin Terrill.
― alimosina, Monday, 17 October 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
Not Hamlet, Macbeth. Christ.
― alimosina, Monday, 17 October 2016 16:17 (seven years ago) link
― Special Derrida Blues (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 October 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
They used "dagger of the mind" on Star Trek too.
― alimosina, Monday, 17 October 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
This is getting ridiculous. There's the movie "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country," and the Star Trek TNG novel "Perchance to Dream."
― alimosina, Monday, 17 October 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Upthread is a link to a webpage with a list of Star Trek Shakespeare references.
― Special Derrida Blues (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 October 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
If we broaden the parameters to include science fact, we get this newly eligible entry:https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5149pA0D6DL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
New parametrization also allows:https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZMxkoWAQL._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― Sketches by T-Boz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
The Dry Salvages, by Caitlín R. Kiernan, derives its title from the T.S. Eliot poem of the same name, which is quoted in the beginning.
― Disco Blecch and His Exo-Planettes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 February 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
Tiptree: Brightness Falls from the Air: Nashe
― alimosina, Saturday, May 7, 2016 8:38 PM (ten months ago)
Margaret St. Clair also has a short story by that title. I bought her Best Of collection recently, thinking that I was vaguely familiar with her work due to the inclusion of that story and 'The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles' (a pastiche of Dunsany's 'How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles'). turns out it's all new to me, but I'm not complaining.
― I Ville Valo HIM (unregistered), Thursday, 9 March 2017 03:57 (seven years ago) link
Fritz Leiber's Our Lady of Darkness (from De Quincy's 'Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow')
― I Ville Valo HIM (unregistered), Thursday, 9 March 2017 04:28 (seven years ago) link
*De Quincey
― I Ville Valo HIM (unregistered), Thursday, 9 March 2017 04:30 (seven years ago) link
Sinkah to thread
― Nesta Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 March 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link
> just remembered Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas, from Eliot's The Waste Land
"O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you."
"Look To Windward" also...
― koogs, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:02 (seven years ago) link
Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane,The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again; How oft hereafter rising shall she lookThrough this same Garden after me -- in vain!
― alimosina, Monday, 26 February 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link
will except
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 January 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link
On reading this thread I wondered about Out of the Silent Planet, and came upon this from Wikipedia about That Hideous Strength:
The novel's title is taken from a poem written by David Lyndsay in 1555, Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour, also known as The Monarche. The couplet in question, "The shadow of that hyddeous strength, sax myle and more it is of length", refers to the Tower of Babel.
Out of the Silent Planet itself sounds like it alludes, but its source eludes me.
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 13 January 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
what a great thread
― budo jeru, Sunday, 26 April 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
so does this phenom tell us anything about anything
It tells us why the title is sometimes far better written than anything else in the story.― Why You Wanna Treeship Borad? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, May 29, 2016 5:56 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― budo jeru, Sunday, 26 April 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link
i noticed three book titles while watching joel coen's "the tragedy of macbeth" the other week.
only one applies here: ray bradbury's "something wicked this way comes"
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cb/61/0b/cb610bf1517467f26647d82bf44617c7.jpg
(the other two were faulkner's "the sound and the fury" and javier marías's "a heart so white")
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
the line before 'something wicked this way comes' is an agatha christie book (but not SF, obv)
― koogs, Monday, 6 March 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
Sort of the opposite of this phenomenon: I think it's interesting that Station Eleven starts with a performance of King Lear, and one of the main characters is in that performance and ends up part of a traveling theater troupe that performs Shakespeare plays, and yet the quotation she has tattooed on her arm - "Survival is insufficient," which becomes a kind of unofficial tagline for the book - comes from Star Trek, even though there is a famous quotation from Lear that makes exactly the same point.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 6 March 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link