Has Anybody Read "Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?"

Adam Stephanides · 17 Jul 2000, 20:47 · from urth-v0029.mbox · original

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From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Has Anybody Read "Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?"
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:47:27
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Alex David Groce wrote:
>=20
> I read this recently, thought it was a entertaining, a nice little
> tribute to Lafferty with an interesting "Gene Wolfe, militia man"
> undercurrent, but nothing special.  Did I miss anything?  There were
> some bits about an old man with a stick ("Laffer") and a woman with a
> baby that I thought might be hints of the Pendragon's son being sent
> to our time (a la Susan Cooper) but maybe that was just my
> imagination.

I read it and posted a brief message in April of this year or
thereabouts.  The only thing I have to add to what you say is that it's
based on a specific Lafferty story, "You Can't Go Back," which is also
about a small, low-flying moon with the same or a similar name (I forget
which).  I couldn't make anything of the old man and the woman with the
baby.  Your suggestion about the Pendragon's son sounds plausible, but I
don't have any evidence to back it up.

--Adam

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