Fiction into fact into fiction By David L. Ulin DAVID L. ULIN
is the book editor of The Times.
November 19, 2005
THIS SEASON, the TV drama "Lost" will make pop culture
history when it becomes the first show ever to have a
character write a book in the real world. Hyperion (a
division of Disney, which owns ABC, which airs "Lost") plans
to release "Bad Twin," a mystery novel credited to one Gary
Troup, who, the publisher informs us, was a passenger on
"Oceanic Flight 815, which was lost in flight from Sydney,
Australia, to Los Angeles in September 2004."
Although that air disaster is the genesis point of "Lost,"
the event from which the entire series unfolds, Troup is
hardly a central figure in the action - in fact, he's not a
living presence at all. He died in the plane crash, leaving
behind the manuscript of his private-eye story, which will be
found in the wreckage during an episode this spring. The
discovery of this manuscript will magically overlap with the
novel's release date.
(Sheesh.)
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