Re: "channelling" or plagarism?

Yes, I was gobsmacked when he lifted nearly the whole plot of the
scene where Paul Muad'dib's sister Alia meets her biological
grandfather, the Baron, in Dune by Frank Herbert.
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At 11:26 a.m. 27/01/2006, Fred Kiesche wrote:
>Greetings:
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>"...and I am pretty sure that the author of Eragon
>has unwittedly channeled this book in the writing of
>his two
>books..."
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>He has apparently "channeled" quite a few books. Of
>course, it is all unwitting. And all the reviewers who
>sing praises to Eragon apparently have never been
>exposed to decades of fantasy and SF writing, so they
>are unwitting in their ignorance of the "channeling".
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