#eta: inspiration is not plagiarism — the problem is not that he was inspired by other works
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Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)
Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here and here .
#neil gaiman#tanith lee#I had no idea#this has made me even angrier#and also clarifies a few more things for me#anyway I thought you’d want to know#eta: inspiration is not plagiarism — the problem is not that he was inspired by other works#most good authors are#the problem is lifting passages#and the other problem is not crediting inspiration where it’s clearly due
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He what? Why did nobody openly talk about it? Tanith Lee's novels Cyrion and Birthgrave were among my favourite fantasy books when I was a teen, but I never ventured into the Flat Earth series. What a fucking pathetic man.
Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.
Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here in paperback or here on Kindle.
#neil gaiman#tanith lee#I had no idea#this has made me even angrier#and also clarifies a few more things for me#eta: inspiration is not plagiarism — the problem is not that he was inspired by other works#most good authors are#the problem is lifting passages#and the other problem is not crediting inspiration where it’s clearly due
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