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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Oct 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Levi Stahl

      This is funny and accurate about van Vogt's terrible but please @stephenking, let's give blame where it belongs. Van Vogt was a Canadian, not a German.https://twitter.com/levistahl/status/1179391165399015425 …

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      A passage from an interview.
      Levi Stahl @levistahl
      This bit from Stephen King talking to @joefassler about first lines made me smile this morning. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/07/why-stephen-king-spends-months-and-even-years-writing-opening-sentences/278043/ … pic.twitter.com/R4yxIL3KSQ
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    2. Warren Terra‏ @warren__terra 2 Oct 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet @StephenKing

      I'm really struggling to find any parallels at all between Slan and the Alien films though.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Oct 2019
      Replying to @warren__terra @StephenKing

      Alien was taken from van Vogt story "Discord in Scarlet"

      6:52 AM - 2 Oct 2019
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        1. Warren Terra‏ @warren__terra 2 Oct 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @StephenKing

          Okay (if true - the Wikipedia summary of the story in question really doesn't support that theory so well) but the passage you quoted says Slan.

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        2. John Russell‏ @max_webster 2 Oct 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @warren__terra @StephenKing

          ""His classic short story `Black Destroyer' is considered to be the source or inspiration for the `Alien' film series..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/02/02/ae-van-vogt-dies-at-87/9366baa8-cf08-4108-ad80-b1feefd94298/ …

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        3. Warren Terra‏ @warren__terra 2 Oct 2019
          Replying to @max_webster @HeerJeet @StephenKing

          Sure, but read the summary of the story on Wikipedia and either that's nonsense or it's like the only sci-fi short story Ridley Scott ever read.

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