From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!geo Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Re: HHGttG and Venus Article-I.D.: watarts.1695 Posted: Wed Feb 16 20:01:30 1983 Received: Thu Feb 17 00:08:35 1983 Reply-To: geo@watarts (Geo Swan) References: cwruecmp.479 The original article stated that "Venus on the Half-Shell" by Kilgore Trout, was written by Kurt Vonnegut. "Venus on the Half-Shell" was not written by Kurt Vonnegut, it was actually written by Philip Jose Farmer. I understand that Vonnegut was really pissed off, and considered suing. In Vonnegut's novel "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater", Rosewater Senior, the Senator, is visiting his disolute son. He goes into the washroom, and among the trash he finds in there is a copy of the book "Venus on the Half-Shell", by Kilgore Trout. Vonnegut spends a page or so describing the book, its cover, the blurb on the back, and etc., which Farmer faithfully reproduced.