David Brin is upset that Death Standing has ripped off his rip off of Roger Zelazney's Damnation Alley
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6/ > To be clear, I am not a litigious kind of guy. In the past I shrugged off how Halo and many other games used concepts that are at least somewhat “mine.” Just one rather blatant example: uplifting dolphins to speak and fly in space.
7/ So Brin is upset that Halo stole his concept that he mashed up and stole from The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) + Lord Seton's Voyage Among the Seven Planets" (1765). Yes. This is sane.
8/ Also, I have a distinct memory of reading some hippy dippy article in Omni magazine c. 1980 or 1982 talking about space stations with pools so dolphins could share their wisdom with us
9/ The 1970s were chock full of nature-over-nurture we-can-teach-animals-to-talk craziness. It was fairly mainstream, in out-of-the-mainstream corners, to think that dolphins ALREADY HAD LANGUAGE. I mean, FLIPPER was on TV, for !@#'s sake.
10/ Startide Rising was a novel (1983). I know this, because I read it. I was talking about an ARTICLE in Omni MAGAZINE, a few years earlier. Which ... is the point I'm making here.https://twitter.com/tigerboy74u/status/1201987623662653441 …
12/ I'm reading more of the Brin rant, and he disclaims that his complaint is a legal one ... then spends the whole time framing his argument as a legal one. e.g. > To be clear, the law doesn’t care much about denials that an infringer ever “read the original,” Amusing story:
13/ I was working in a B&N book store during college break c. 1992 and the store manager brought in Pat Cadigan, Ellen Datlow, Terry Bison, Paul Park, and Jack Womack. I'd read tons by all of them. Talked to Paul Park. "Your Starbridge novels remind me of Helliconia Spring"
14/ Lol, I met him around 20 years ago too. ...when he was a huge dick to everyone at the signing!https://twitter.com/bryan99CA/status/1202016731822088192?s=19 …
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