[SFRA-L] Science Fiction which features Science Fiction

[michele braun]

Would Kilgore Trout's books in Slaughterhouse Five be along the lines you're
thinking of?

Michele Braun

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Pett, A William <APett at ric.edu> wrote:

> A long time ago, don't know where, I read a story where the atomic
> apocalypse took place while a group of sf writers were at a retreat in the
> mountains.  They'd all written apocalypse stories so they knew just what to
> do and began making preparations to re=start the human race.  I enjoyed
> that.
>
>
> Bill Pett
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> Subject: Re: [SFRA-L] Science Fiction which features Science Fiction
>
> Try Deep Secret by Dianne Wynne Jones. It is a lot of fun. Bruce Rockwood
>
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 1:37 PM, <GHMyst at aol.com<mailto: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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