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To: theFIRMbss
So not only is Brown now pretty well analyzed as a somewhat sinester Pagan propagandist who retreats behind others claiming "its just a novel" while promoting it as really all true but, it is beginning to appear as though he may have plagerized the whole story.

How rich

Its like the case of Arming America where the leftist lost his Bancroft Prize for history when it turned out his research was fabricated to prove his theory.

43 posted on 04/23/2004 10:20:52 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: KC Burke; Drawsing
>it is beginning to appear as though he may have plagerized the whole story

I've seen similar
kinds of "borrowing" before.
First, some genre or

fringe writer creates   *
something interesting but
not slick, not polished.

Than someone "borrows"
key points, slicks it up mainstream,
and laughs to the bank.

Of course, mainstream cash,
then, can buy the best lawyers
and press mouthpieces . . .

(Every now and then,
they'll steal from a fringe player
like Ellison. Hah!   * *)
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* "MAD ABOUT MUGGLES Next month, the Maryland-based publisher Thurman House will release a title that may sound familiar: The Legend of Rah and the Muggles, by N.K. Stouffer. Larry Potter [!!!] and His Best Friend Lilly, also by Stouffer, will follow this fall. If these books sound like blatant Harry Potter knockoffs, it might surprise you to learn that the Stouffer books actually predate the more famous Potter series by a decade or more. "I get accused every day of copying J.K. Rowling," Stouffer says. First published in 1984, the Rah and Larry Potter books nearly led to a seven-figure publishing and licensing deal. That deal fell through, however, when Stouffer's original publishing company filed for bankruptcy, tying up her rights to the material. A few years later, when Stouff..."

* * "The story behind another entry, "Soldier," is perhaps even more interesting than the story itself.

"Ellison adapted the story for an episode of the original "Outer Limits" television series. Many years later, a certain big-shot movie director took huge chunks of it and turned it into a movie, "The Terminator."

"Yes, the director was James "Titanic" Cameron. Ellison sued Cameron, and now every "Terminator" videotape and DVD credits Ellison for the story idea.

"The lesson: Even the "King of the World" can get taken down a peg if he doesn't behave."

45 posted on 04/23/2004 1:09:24 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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