In message 007301c18757$d537e840$f681590c@dshilling, Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net writes
Nico said:
Does that American detective story with 'a group of names' deliberately borrowed from Blake's Seven count?
Which one's that? Do you have any details? How close are the names? Are
they
recognisable as characters too?
Barbara Paul, Full Frontal Murder--lots of name-checks, but no connection to B7. Paul also wrote an earlier book in the same series, The Apostrophe Thief. The setting is the production of a play called The Apostrophe Thief-- a tip of the hat to the missing apostrophe in Blakes7.
In fact the last four books in the Marian Larch series all feature hacker Curt Holland, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Avon. A deliberate uncanny resemblance by the time of Full Frontal Murder, so there is a B7 connection other than the names. There is even a BUARA scene in Full Frontal Murder...
See http://www.barbarapaul.com/holland.html for more details on Holland and the B7 connection. Holland also gets a short story to himself, apart from the four novels he appears in.