Science Fiction & Fantasy Asked on March 25, 2021
In this question, "Was there a literary inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland?”, the questioner quotes a Wikipedia listing of some literary works inspired by Lewis Carroll’s story, including:
Little Mimzy Wells by Markiv Inias is influenced heavily by Carroll’s
works, and draws liberally from the themes present in said novels.
My searches on google for a work with this title have come up blank – the only results just repeat the above text verbatim. Markiv Inias also seems to be unknown to isfdb. Is this a real work, or is it just some strange phantom?
This seems to be made up of whole cloth.
The closest (single) match to "Inias" in Worldcat is "Eneas Lope" who is listed for a single book in Persian. Searching for "Markiv" turns up a number of possibilities as a last name, the closest of which appears to be "Ivan Markiv," author of a 1936 collection of folktales, if online translators aren't deceiving me too much.
There's not much more luck on the side of the title either; searching for "Mimzy" in the title yields a few pages of results, almost all of which are various editions and translations of Kuttner's collection The Last Mimzy: Stories; correcting the spelling and searching for "mimsy" still gives us under a hundred hits, most of which are collections and anthologies containing "Mimsy Were the Borogroves" after which the aforementioned collection is titled.
Notably "Wells" never turns up in any connection to "Mimsy," unlike "Mimsy Pocket" (character) or "Mimsy Farmer" (actor).
Correct answer by DavidW on March 25, 2021
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