From: nickles@sage.cc.purdue.edu (john a nickles)
Subject: RE: Fictitious Fiction
Summary: the almost complete list
Keywords: long
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 05:09:18 GMT

Here, FINALLY, is the (nearly) complete list of Fictitious Fiction
that you kind people posted or sent to me. I apologize for the long
delay but I was awaiting "a literary rendering of the Mandelbrot set".
:) 
I also lost a couple of posts accidentaly. (Well, they shouldn't give
English majors computer accounts) :(  I was amused by your responses
which ranged from the sublime (Jorge Luis Borges) to the ridiculous
(Junior Wookchuck's Handbook). The following list is in no particular order
but I have separated the books  that used fictional texts as chapterheads
from those in which the false book was an element of the story.
Ready? Then let's begin.


Author                  Title                     Fictitious Work
Jorge Luis Borges       Pierre Menard,            Don Quixote
                        Author of the Quixote     (sort of)

                        Tlor,Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Richard Brautigan       Trout Fishing in America (?)  library of
                                                      unpublished works
Malcolm Bradbury        My Search for Mensonge
Robertson Davies        Cornish Trilogy

Stanislaw Lem           A Perfect Vacuum          book reviews of
                                                  false books including 
                                                  A Perfect Vacuum
Flann O'Brien          The Third Policeman        De Selby
Nicholson Baker        U and I                    John Updike misremembered
Proust                 Marcel                     Marcel
Joyce                  Ulysses                    Phillip Beaufoy's
                                                  Matcham's Masterstroke
George Eliot           Middlemarch                Casabon's Key to all
                                                  Mythologies
Allen Dean Foster      Star Wars                  The Journal of the Whalls
Vladimir Nabokov       Pale Fire                  Pale Fire
A.S Byatt              Posession                  works by Ash and LeMott
Wm. Kennedy(?)         The New Confession         a mythical director's
                                                  silent movies
Stephen Donaldson      Lord Foul's Bane etc.      Covenant's books
Wallace                The Seven Seconds          The Seven Seconds
Michal Chrichton       Eaters of the Dead         
Shakespeare            Hamlet                    Murder of Gozongo
Philip K. Dick         The Man in the            What if the Allies
                       High Castle               Had Won the War?
Douglas Adams          The Hitchiker's           The Hitchiker's
                       Guide to the Galaxy       Guide to the Galaxy
Walt Disney Comics                               Junior Woodchuck's
                                                 Handbook
Robert Heinlein        The Rolling Stones        comic works of Grandma
                                                 Stone
M. Zelazny             Roadmarks                 Fleurs du Mal (not Baudy's)
Gordon Dickson         The Final Encyclopedia    the final encyclopedia
Lloyd Alexander        The Book of Three         The Book of Three
Glen Cook              Dread Brass Shadows       the book of Brass Shadows
Lucius Shepard         Life During Wartime
Michael Chrichton      The Andromeda Strain      bibliography
Alphonse Allais        Un dame bien Parisien
M. Bulgadov            The Master and Margharita
and a work entitled The Face on the Cutting Room Floor

Now for books with false chapter heads:
Jack Chalker          Dancing Gods
Frank Herbert          Dune
U.K. LeGuin            The Earthsea Trilogy
Rosemary Wells         Voyage to the Bunny Planet
Terry Pratchett        the Nome trilogy 

I must also mention the works of Tim Powers and James Blaylock who
between them have created the poet William Ashbless and his poems.
He appears in most of their (other wise separate) works.
Again I would like to thank everyone who wrote. Anymore ideas?
Please send them. If someone would kindly save this file, I would be
much obliged.  (I have neither the knowledge or the room. As I said,
I am an English major.) in the event someone wants a repost.
the bloody but unbowed,

John A. Nickles
Standard Disclaimer: Purdue has their opinions, I have mine.
               
                       High Castle

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