I've never seen the credits to Dollhouse. I'd like to know if Whedon gives any kind of credit to William Gibson or Joe Haldeman. The idea of a whorehouse with brain-wiped playmates sure sounds an awful lot like the House of Blue Lights out of Gibson's story "Burning Chrome." And Haldeman wrote a novel titled "All my Sins Remembered," that featured a government undercover agent who was given personality overprints so he could impersonate various people in order to infiltrate criminal organizations. Seems to me like Whedon used a Chinese restaurant approach for developing the idea for this show - one from Column A and one from Column B.
