From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!presby!burdvax!hdj Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Re: HHGttG and Venus Article-I.D.: burdvax.563 Posted: Mon Feb 14 17:20:04 1983 Received: Thu Feb 17 08:05:10 1983 References: cwruecmp.479 Kurt Vonnegut is NOT Kilgore Trout, and did not write @i[Venus on the Half-Shell]. Vonnegut *invented* Trout. It was either Philip K Dick or Philip Jose Farmer who wrote @i[Venus]. I always get those two confused. It was the one that wrote @i[Riverworld], methinks. Not a sf fan, Herb Jellinek, burdvax!hdj