# Iron Giant *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 17 Aug 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jonathan Laidlow *17 Aug 1999, 11:50* 'The Iron Giant' is of course based on former UK poet laureate Ted Hughes' superb children's book 'The Iron Man'. No idea why they changed the title, except maybe because of that dumb Marvel superhero. Eejits. Jonathan Visit Ultan's Library - A Gene Wolfe web resource http://members.tripod.co.uk/laidlow/index.htm Jonathan Laidlow University of Birmingham, UK --- ### Stephen Witowski *17 Aug 1999, 12:10 · follows Jonathan Laidlow* Apparently the book is also known as "The Iron Giant" in the Us as well. (Another useless fact brought to you by a librarian!) Stephen Witkowski Librarian/Information Officer City Architect's Library , Room 8029, Town Hall, Manchester. M60 2JT Manchester. UK. E-Mail : stephenw at libraries.manchester.gov.uk Phone : (0161) 234 4357 ---------- > From: Jonathan Laidlow > To: urth at lists.best.com > Subject: (urth) Iron Giant > Date: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 12:50 > > 'The Iron Giant' is of course based on former UK poet laureate Ted > Hughes' superb children's book 'The Iron Man'. No idea why they > changed the title, except maybe because of that dumb Marvel > superhero. Eejits. ---