#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 11. Is there a thread connecting your work to that of another?

Many of my novels and no few of my shorter works comment on or refer to other authors’ works. As Jo Walton observed, science fiction is a genre that exists in conversation with itself, and I tend to stand on the edges, muttering and grumbling about other folks’ deranged ideas until I have to offer my own take on the matter under discussion.