From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Neander Tales
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 00:06:40 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Smith" <sgs at aginc.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:39 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Neander Tales

> 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".

Later, the same thing happened with Clarke and Charles Sheffield, with the
"elevator to space" concept.

--Ted White