Books Never Written -- Yet Written About

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1. Which novel introduced the world to 25 nonexistant books, including Rod Keen's 'It's the Queen of Darkness, Pal', S. M. Justice's 'Leather Clothes and the History of Man' and Beatrice Quinn's 'The Egg Layed Twice'? The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (by Tom Wolfe) The Enormous Room (by e.e. cummings) Fahrenheit 451 (by Ray Bradbury) The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (by Richard Brautigan)

2. In Pynchon's 'The Crying of Lot 49', the author of 'The Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger' helps Oedipa solve a portion of the Tristero mystery (the mention of 'Trystero' in a Wharfinger play). What was this San Narciso College professor's name? Emory Bortz Mucho Maas Dr. Diocletian Blobb Dr. Hilarius

3. Who is the fictional author of the treatises 'Where God Went Wrong', 'Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes', 'Who is This God Person Anyway?' and 'Well, That About Wraps it Up for God'? Lithopaedus Senonesis Oolon Colluphid Duban the Sage Xavier Amice, S.J.

4. What is the title of Sir Harry Flashman's official biography, within the fictional world of George MacDonald Fraser's popular 'Flashman' series? Dawns and Departures of a Soldier's Life The Hector of Jallalabad: Confessions of a Hero A Rum Go: Perils and Politics in India, Africa and the Colonies Scandalous Action in Her Majesty's Name

5. What real-life author invented Milo Temesvar's 'On the Use of Mirrors in the Game of Chess' and De Amicis' 'Chronicles of the Zodiac'? Umberto Eco Franz Kafka Jorge Luis Borges Milorad Pavic

6. In what real-life book will you find reference to 'Mad Trist' by Sr Launcelot Canning? Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll Libra, by Don DeLillo The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe The Europeans, by Henry James

7. What real-life author invented the fictional authors of such nonexistant works as 'The Toothpaste Murder', 'The Toastrack Enigma' and 'A Moral Dustbin'? Edward Gorey Ogden Nash Spike Milligan Shel Silverstein

8. Which of the following is not a fictional title appearing in a book by Jorge Luis Borges? A General History of Labyrinths Hope Springs Internal First Encyclopedia of Tlon History of the Land Called Uqbar

9. What real-life author invented the fictional authors of 'A Sexual Suspect', 'Second Wind of the Cuckold' and 'The World According to Bensenhaver'? Irvine Welsh Joyce Carol Oates James Joyce John Irving

10. In what real-life book is the world introduced to Rex West, author of 'The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish', 'Murder in Mauve' and 'The Case of the Poisoned Doughnut', among others? The King of Clubs, by Agatha Christie Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, by P. G. Wodehouse The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams A Certain Justice, by P. D. James

11. Who is the fictional author of 'The Doubtful Asphodel', 'The Funny Mountain' and 'The Prismatic Bezel', among others? Lemuel Gulliver David Copperfield Sebastian Knight Grady Tripp

12. In Michael Chabon's 'Wonderboys', what was the title of wunderkind James Leer's first published novel? The Land Downstairs The Abominations of Plunkettsburg and Other Tales Kind of Blue The Love Parade

13. Who is the fictional author of 'The Duke's Daughter', 'A Phantom Hand' and 'The Curse of the Coventrys'? Gwendolyn Moon, from Very Good, Jeeves! (by P. G. Wodehouse) Jo March, from Little Women (by Louisa May Alcott) Orlando, from Orlando: A Biography (by Virginia Woolf) Humbert Humbert, from Lolita (by Vladimir Nabokov)

14. Where would one not be surprised to find copies of 'Is Man a Myth?', 'Men, Monks, and Gamekeepers: a Study in Popular Legend' or 'The Life and Letters of Silenus'? Narnia Terabithia Hobbiton Hogwarts

15. What real-life author created Dr. Stephen Maturin, fictional author of such scholarly works as 'Some Remarks on Peruvian Cirripedes' and 'Thoughts on the Prevention of Diseases Most Usual Among Seamen', among others? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle C. S. Forester Patrick O'Brian Lawrence Norfolk

16. In which real-life book was the world introduced to fictional Victorian poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte? Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens Possession: A Romance, by A.S. Byatt Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

17. In what erstwhile fictional work would one, it turns out, be able to find the fictional biography 'He Flew Like a Madman' the fictional play 'Helas, Je me suis Transfigure les Pieds' and the fictional history 'The Noble Sport of Warlocks'? The Colour of Magic Quidditch Through the Ages Around the World in Eighty Days The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward

18. What real-life author is responsible for the fictional treatises 'Advanced Ass-licking for Graduate Students', 'The Proper Method for Farting in Company', 'The Law's Codpiece', 'How to Keep it Up Until You're Ninety' and 'Stupid Noises by Celestine Monks' among over 130 others? Robert Anton Wilson John Barth Francois Rabelais Henry Fielding

19. What real-life author created D. B. Caulfield, fictional author of 'The Secret Goldfish'? J. D. Salinger Charles Palliser Thomas Pynchon Stanislaw Lem

20. Who is the fictional author of such political science-fiction works as The Gospel from Outer Space, Venus on the Half-Shell, and Now It Can Be Told (hint: even in the made-up world in which these works were published, they were never printed in book form but rather appeared as filler material in pornographic magazines)? Xenophila Vixen Tom Foxe Kilgore Trout Roxana Tygris

21. Gilbert Sorrentino's avant-garde parody 'Mulligan Stew' presented nearly 300 nonexistant books to the world. Which of the following fictional titles are among the many appearing in Sorrentino's work? A History of Coincidence (by the Rev. Beebe), Under a Loggia (by Eleanor Lavish) Only a Factory Girl (by Rosie M. Banks), 'Twas on an English June (by Gwendolyn Moon) The Uppity Loins (by Randy Harvard), A Velvet Trench (by Joy Cumming) The Great Ventriloquist (by Mortimer Cropper), No Place Like Home (by Leonora Stern)

22. In the Blandings novels, Lord Emsworth enjoys no pastime so much as hiding away from his guests, employees, relatives and resident imposters to read and reread what book? The Gentleman Farmer's Gentle Almanack Augustus Whiffle, On the Care of the Pig The Sinister Secretary Strikes by Adolphus Stiffham Aunts and Other Tyrants in the English Peerage

23. Which of the following is not a philosopher invented by pioneering literary science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem? Aristides Acheropoulos, author of The New Cosmogony Cezar Kouska, author of De Impossibilitate Prognoscendi Zzazz Xxaxx, author of A Brave New 'Whirled': Revolving Thoughts of Thinking Machines Ronald Schuer, author of The Mind-Made Universe: Laws vs. Rules

24. Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, in many ways the first modern novel, met with incredible popular success during Sterne's lifetime. Indeed, the book's success was so great that Sterne ended up increasing sales of some of his rather less popular works by publishing them under the name of one of the characters from Tristram Shandy. To which of the following imaginary authors from Tristram Shandy did Sterne attribute these less popular works? Parson Yorick Hafen Slawkenbergius Toby Shandy Dr. Slop

25. Which of the following is not among the works attributed by real-life author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to fictional detective Sherlock Holmes? Zeno's Paradox Resolved, by Methods Both A Priori and A Posteriori Chaldean Roots in the Ancient Cornish Language Upon the Distinction Between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos Practical Book of Bee Culture, With Some Observations Upon the Segregation of the Queen