David Hobby wrote: > While we're looking for references in _Kiln People_, > how about all the references to other science fiction books? > Some of them might be tropes, but I got the feeling that some > were intentional "nods" to other authors. > Here are a few--feel free to add to and/or correct my > list: > > the purple wage (welfare) This was Philip Jose Farmer, right? > > fair witnesses Heinlein, in _Stranger in a Strange Land_
"...he'd concentrate with all the intensity of a Vingean focus trance..." (page 245) referencing Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness In The Sky" Kevin Street
