Derivative? What's the original? I'm trying to build up my novel backlog.
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Replying to @quidohmi_prsnl @Nymphomachy
Gaiman's Books of Magic are about a boy with a lightning scar, glasses, and an owl familiar that discovers he's a magical chosen one and how he learns magic.
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Gaiman would be opening himself up to libel suits if he suggested anything else.
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Gaiman : "Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on." https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/04/fair-use-and-other-things.html …
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Replying to @PoohBearCorner @Nymphomachy and
Gaiman quote : 'Not sure how this has transmuted into "Gaiman has accused Rowling of ripping him off." But I suppose it's a better story than the truth.' So HE thinks this is a load of rubbish. Obviously. https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/04/fair-use-and-other-things.html …
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Replying to @PoohBearCorner @Nymphomachy and
Jill Murphy has been a bit less conciliatory, and honestly Harry Potter is much more of a ripoff of The Worst Witch than Books of Magic (it's fair to describe HP as TWW's plot with BoM's protagonist subbed in)https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/worst-witch-author-jill-murphy-a-thank-you-from-harry-potter-writer-jk-rowling-would-be-nice/ …
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Again, no one is saying that Rowling plagiarized anyone else to a degree that would actually be legally actionable (and plenty of people have ripped off Harry Potter in turn, that's fine, that's how genre writing works, as Gaiman points out)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
What is annoying is JKR's steadfast refusal to ever acknowledge any other writers or give them so much as a public "thank you", which is all Jill Murphy said she's asking for
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Same with Ursula K. Le Guin, who came out and said she very much did not believe Harry Potter was in any sense directly based on Earthsea, but it'd be nice if JKR didn't just accept it when people praised her for inventing "wizard school" books https://www.ursulakleguin.com/Note-ArtInfoTheftConfusion-Part2.html …
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Sorry, that's a broken link, here's a Reddit thread with the text that was therehttps://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/89qktk/ursula_k_le_guin_on_philip_k_dick_and_jk_rowling/ …
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