| Title: | Arcana Caelestia |
| Notice: | Directory listings are in topic 2 |
| Moderator: | NETRIX::thomas |
| Created: | Thu Dec 08 1983 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Who is/was Madeleine Duke, author of "Claret, Sandwiches and Sin" and "This Business of Bomfog" (both written in the '60's, I think). What was her relationship to "Maxim Donne", whose name appears on the copyright notices? "Claret...", with its global political sweep and plausible near future technology-driven ramifications worked into the plot, impresses me as an upbeat precursor of today's Cyberpunk movement. Can any SF trivialists out there comment on either of these novels? bob
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| 766.1 | RUBY::BOYAJIAN | Starfleet Security | Thu Mar 30 1989 02:17 | 5 | |
I have both of Duke's books, but have never read them. I'm pretty
sure "Madeleine Duke" is a pseudonym, but I'll check my references
when I get home.
--- jerry
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| 766.2 | RUBY::BOYAJIAN | Starfleet Security | Fri Mar 31 1989 04:05 | 17 | |
Well, I got it backwards; Duke is the real name, and Donne is the
pseudonym. From Peter Nicholls' THE SCIENCE FICTION ENCYCLOPEDIA:
� DUKE, MADELAINE (ELIZABETH) (1925- ). British writer
and physician, born in Switzerland of Dutch parents,
active under her own name and at least two pseudonyms
in a variety of genres including humour, war books,
serious novels, children's stories and sf novels, which
she describes as "cartoons". Under the name Maxim Donne
she published her first sf novel, CLARET, SANDWICHES AND
SIN: A CARTOON (1964; reissued under her own name)... In
THIS BUSINESS OF BOMFOG: A CARTOON (1967) the protagonist
is one "Maxim Donne", author of CLARET, SANDWICHES AND
SIN, a successful novel which has inspired the assassination
of a number of world leaders... [J(ohn) C(lute)] �
--- jerry
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