[SFRA-L] Science Fiction which features Science Fiction

[Gabriel Mckee]

The protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke's SANDS OF MARS is an SF author who is
sent on a space mission.

gm

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:37 PM, <GHMyst at aol.com> wrote:

> **
> Consider LIVE FREE OR DIE by John Ringo.
>
> The principal character, Tyler Vernon, was the creator of a science fiction
> based web comic.  He meets an alien at a con.  He claim that many of his
> ideas come from science fiction.  Later in the story, he has a discussion
> with an alien and they speculate why the alien's race never came up with the
> concept of science fiction.
>
> It makes me wonder how many other works of science fiction exist in which
> science fiction itself is a detail of the plot.  I guess it could be called
> "self-referential science fiction."
>
>
>     Ed Wysocki
>     Orlando, FL
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