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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: SF settings of Homer?
Date: 20 Mar 2024 13:32:02 GMT
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In article <uteo9l$1glt1$1@dont-email.me>,
Michael F. Stemper <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 19/03/2024 23.20, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> I just mentioned in another thread Lafferty's _Space Chantey_ which is an
>> SF setting of Homer's Odyssey, and that brought to mind the late Brian M.
>> Stableford's "Dies Irae" series, which was a setting of, hmm, I forget
>> exactly, but either "The Illiad", "The Odyssey" or maybe both.
>> 
>> Are there others?  I mean there are many "Lots of people go to war" or
>> "Man tries to get home" stories, but are there more directly inspired
>> by Homer?  Just as a first cut it seems I can think of more inspired
>> by Xenophon.
>
>I'm not sure, as it's been twenty years since I last read it, but I think
>that Laumer's _Galactic Odyssey_ is based on the appropriate bit of Homer.
>
><https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2989>
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Thanks!  I suspect I read that one, but I'm getting no pings at all
from my memory.
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