Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!

On 21/05/2025 12.44, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <100l2ks$2ubig$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/21/25 12:55 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <100kria$2r2j0$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

A national media conglomerate[1] put out a summer reading list, aided by
AI. But...
>
"In fact, only the last five of the 15 novels on the list are real."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chicago-sun-times-ai-reading-list/

For example:
- Since only 5 of them actually exist, you're done when you read those
5. If you want to read more than 5 books, you can choose whatever you
want to read for book 6 and beyond.

Maybe a better list would be
  The Necronomicon
  The Grasshopper Lies Heavy
  Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie
  Misery's Return

Douglas Adams refers repeatedly to _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
(an ebook) in the novel of the same name, and in its successors.
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.
In John Brunner's _Stand on Zanzibar_, Chad Mulligan wrote _The
Hipcrime Vocab_, which plays a prominent role in the story.
(RAH mentions "Boyd and Asimov" in, I believe, _Have Spacesuit, Will
Travel_, but that's a real textbook.)
Frank Herbert's _Dune_ features quotes from _The Orange Catholic Bible_.
HPL and Clark Ashton Smith both refer to _The Necronomicon_
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
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?
--
Michael F. Stemper
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