Re: Pagiarism?

I often find myself stealing Delany unconsciously.  The last time I
caught myself doing this, I was channelling The Einstein Intersection
. . . motes cycloned and swirled in the space where he had been . . .
in my story "A Thousand Ways of Density", I deliberately took the idea
of the Golden (The Star Pit) and made it a bar where Goldens go to
drink . . . the only people who can travel past the heliosphere of the
sun. Delany's my hero, how can I avoid imitating him a little bit? In
the story above, I made the link explicit by saying "Delany's Golden".





At 02:09 p.m. 10/11/2006, Eric Solstein wrote:
>One would hope, but still, an odd bit of prose to offer in tribute.
>And if this is all there is to it, not too important, but still
>interesting.  I'll leave a query to Broderick if another reply
>doesn't surface.
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>-Eric
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>On Nov 9, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Ron Henry wrote:
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> > On 11/9/06, Eric Solstein <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > I can't recall the Delany text, but the two are certainly more
> > than a
> > > bit close, and worth noting.
> >
> > Almost certainly a deliberate allusion/tribute rather than plagiarism,
> > I would think. In his essay "Black to the Future" Mosley describes SRD
> > as "a monumental voice in the field since the '60s."
> >
> > I can't recall where the Delany text is from (my first guess was
> > Motion of Light... but it's only a guess). Too bad Broderick didn't
> > say in his post!
> >
> > -- Ron Henry
> >
> >
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