Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 418 Location: Minnesota
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:43 pm
Yes and no. I was writing this story, and reading this anthology from the 50's. It turns out Asimov wrote my story 40 years before I did, and he did it better. I cannot believe he would stoop to stealing my ideas. Damn time viewing devices. _________________ Douglas E. Gogerty
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Around the Campfire
"No, I'm from Iowa. I just work in outer space."
-James T. Kirk
Um, several of my tales have been around for decades. In that time, I've been told that their notion was 'totally implausible', then 'unlikely', then, 'oh, we've too much like that'...
Funny part was their basic ideas had been explored back in the 50s, I'd just found a different spin...
BTW, did I post a link to the RedMoon Horror site, full of old, oft-creaky yet still scary nape-hair risers ??
When I was in high school I once wrote a story where the main element was fog. A couple of weeks later I read the Stephen King short story "The Mist". I was a little worried at first but then the King story took a different path. It doesn't much matter anyway because the tale I wrote wasn't very good. _________________ Harker: ...I sometimes write stories.
Coroner: I sometimes read them.
Harker: Thank you.
Coroner: Stories in general--not yours.
-from "The Damned Thing" by Ambrose Bierce
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