I Claudius

Andy Robertson · 07 Sep 2006, 07:49 · from 2006-September.txt.gz

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From: andywrobertson at clara.co.uk (Andy Robertson)
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:49:46 +0100
Subject: (urth) I Claudius
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Russell Wodell writes: 

> Graves' Claudius novels seem an obvious inspiration for BOTNS.  
> 
> But I wonder if there isn't an intervening source in a Graves rip-off: A.E. van Vogt's fix-up Empire of the Sun (1957).
 

EMPIRE OF THE ATOM.   Gorgeous tripe from AEVV, but having read it recently 
I doubt there's a close link: the style is all wrong, and VV is really 
writing about the pains of being a superhuman/subhuman mutant.

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