Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:39:57 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Neander Tales
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

> It's curious how the same ideas often appear simultaneously in novels
> by different SF authors.

The classic example was Arthur C. Clarke and Poul Anderson coming up
with the same idea, coining the same word for the title -- and, as I
heard it, sumbitting the stories to the same editor at the same time.
Completely independantly.

The new word, BTW, was "sunjammer".

I don't know how the decided who got to keep it, but the Anderson story
kept the title and the Clarke story became "The Wind from the Sun".

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
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