Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!

On 5/24/25 11:01 AM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 23/05/2025 08.43, Tony Nance wrote:

On 5/22/25 1:50 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

   Douglas Adams refers repeatedly to _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_

(an ebook) in the novel of the same name, and in its successors.
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In Poul Anderson's massive future history, Hloch of Stormgate Choth (on
Avalon) wrote their _Earh Book_, which gave its name to a real-life
collection of tales in that setting.
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In John Brunner's _Stand on Zanzibar_, Chad Mulligan wrote _The
Hipcrime Vocab_, which plays a prominent role in the story.
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(RAH mentions "Boyd and Asimov" in, I believe, _Have Spacesuit, Will
Travel_, but that's a real textbook.)
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Frank Herbert's _Dune_ features quotes from _The Orange Catholic Bible_.
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HPL and Clark Ashton Smith both refer to _The Necronomicon_
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There are a couple of works mentioned in Doc Smith:
- _Some Observations Upon Certain Properties of Certain Metals,
   Including Trans-Uranic Elements_, Richard Ballinger Seaton (non- fiction)
- Sybly Whyte's pot-boiler never, as far as I can recall, got a name
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I'd bet that _The Name of the Rose_ has a few titles, but I don't feel
like skimming it. What about Borges (whom I've never read), or PKD?
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Nice list!

 Thanks!
 

Speaking of Dune, there's also all the stuff quoted from Princess Irulan's "Manual of Muad Dib" (or whatever she called it).
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There's also The Encyclopedia Galactica from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books.

 A couple of good catches there.
 I would have sworn that, some years back, somebody linked here to an image of a
bookshelf filled with fictitious titles. My search skills aren't up to recovering
it, though.
 

Yes! I remember that too, but I can't find it either.

 

"The Princess Bride" is the "good parts" version of a longer work by S Morganstern.
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And I think "There and Back Again" from The Lord of the Rings fits.

 That's just a sub-title for _The Hobbit_. Maybe _The Red Book of Westmarch_, though.
 

Ah yes - thank you.
Tony