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| From | goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) |
| Subject | Re: This morning's crap idea. |
| Message-ID | <ntFBDF.216M@kithrup.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2015-08-21 08:24 +0000 |
| References | <mr2cek$4kn$1@dont-email.me> <mr2td9$8vh$1@dont-email.me> <ef6fdef4-f2e5-48a0-abe0-69433ab2f9c7@googlegroups.com> |
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In article <ef6fdef4-f2e5-48a0-abe0-69433ab2f9c7@googlegroups.com>,
Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> wrote:
>Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
>>
>> There's also the classic story of an author submitting his awesome
>> stories and finding out that they were already published by an author
>> they had previously never heard of (who was obviously time-travelling to
>> steal the stories and publish them before the original submission).
>> "Who's Cribbing?" was the title, and the poor author was constantly
>> being told that his work was wonderful, since it was copying the work of
>> the great Todd Thromberry...
>
>There was a Clarke story...
>"Herbert George Morely Roberts Wells, Esq." ISFDb has it listed as an
>essay, not fiction, and has a listing for "The Anticipator," so (unless
>they are just playing along) that is the story to reference. In a
>pre-Internet forum, Clarke had conflated the title of that story with
>"The New Accelerator" and written it as "The New Anticipator". He was
>surprised to find "The Anticipator" was not and H.G. Wells story, but by
>Morely Roberts. He then gave a brief synopsis: a writer is finding his
>stories published under another name before he submits them, eventually
>snapping, he plots a murderous solution, but he *is* dealing with a man
>who steals his plots... Clarke then notes that Roberts had not had many
>stories published; what ever happened to him, and where did Wells get
>his ideas, anyhow...
The Clarke essay is an explanation for a goof he made in a short-short
entitled "The Longest Science Fiction Story Ever Written". From memory,
it went something like this:
===
Dear Mr. Jenks,
I'm afraid your idea is not at all original. Stories about
writers telepathically stealing stories from other writers date
back to H.G. Wells' "The New Anticipator". About once a week we
receive a manuscript beginning:
Dear Mr. Jenks,
I'm afraid your idea is not at all original. Stories about
writers telepathically stealing stories from other writers date
back to H.G. Wells' "The New Anticipator". About once a week we
receive a manuscript beginning:
Dear Mr. Jenks,
I'm afraid your idea is not at all original.
Stories about writers telepathically stealing stories
from other writers date back to H.G. Wells' "The New
Anticipator". About once a week we receive a manuscript
beginning:
Dear Mr. Jenks,
...
...
...
...
...
Better luck next time!
Mark Belvedere
editor, _Flabbergasting Science Fiction_
Better luck next time!
Mark Belvedere
editor, _Flabbergasting Science Fiction_
Better luck next time!
Mark Belvedere
editor, _Flabbergasting Science Fiction_
Better luck next time!
Mark Belvedere
editor, _Flabbergasting Science Fiction_
===
I realize that I'm infringing on Clarke's copyright here, but as I
have quoted less than 10% of the story, I feel that I can claim "fair use".
--
David Goldfarb |From the fortune cookie file:
goldfarbdj@gmail.com |
goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu |"You have at your command the wisdom of the ages."
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