lah%ucbmiro@Berkeley (08/06/85)
From: lah%ucbmiro@Berkeley (1st Lt. RYN Leigh Ann Hussey) How many stories I have heard of authors on opposite sides of the continent coming up with the same story simultaneously! And mostly it is, in fact, blind luck. As for the Gremlins/Black Cauldron beastie similarity, I've seen neither of them (though the gremlins themselves are familier to anyone who walks through a toy store these days), but I would guess blind luck on this one too. It's happened to me, as well. Dave Hartwell at Tor decided not to take a novel I submitted to him, due to a similarity between it and The Summer Tree, which he will be publishing in America. The recent posting which mentioned it says it has five protagonists; I'd be interested to see how many other similarities there are. Would the poster be kind enough to post a review when he's done with it? Yours in confusion, Leigh Ann