Swanwick and others

Antonin Scriabin · 17 Jun 2014, 21:17 · from 2014-June.txt.gz

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From: kierkegaurdian at gmail.com (Antonin Scriabin)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:17:01 -0400
Subject: (urth) Swanwick and others
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Anathem didn't do it for me, but I agree that the New Sun plagiarism
charges are silly.
On Jun 17, 2014 5:05 PM, "Andrew Mason" <andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Michael Thayer wrote:
>
>>
>> I am a big fan of Anathem, but I just don't see the New Sun
>> parallels/connection -- what specifically do you see as the similarities?
>>  I'm intrigued.
>>
>
>
> Set on an Earth-like planet in the far 'future' (though not as far, nor as
> blatantly Earth-like)
>
> Lots of unusual words (in Wolfe real words: in Stephenson made-up ones,
> though not too mysterious if you know Latin; but the effect is similar).
>
> The hero begins in an enclosed community and then goes on a journey.
>
> And, most importantly, the idea of alternative worlds and a choice between
> them.
>
> Well, it may not add up to much, but Stephenson was rather absurdly
> accused of plagiarism (with the mistaken claim that the planet is called
> Orth), so clearly others besides me have noticed a similarity.
>
> As I mentioned a little while ago, Paul Witcover's _The Emperor of All
> Things_ seems to acknowledge a debt to Wolfe, though perhaps a negative
> one, as the character Wolfe is a villain; (but then, Umberto Eco made
> Borges a villain, and I don't think that was meant in a wholly hostile
> way).
>
>
> --
>>
>
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