Today a lot of people seem to be confusing "Old Man's War" with "The Forever War" and it might have something to do with a movie trailer that just came out with a title vaguely similar to both.
And also, no, I'm not especially worried if the movie in question "borrows" from my book. Any science-fiction-themed military story is going to have elements similar to mine, and vice-versa. We're all swimming in the same pool, folks. It's okay. There's enough different.
I remember people asking me if I was angry with "Avatar" for the brain-transfer thing, and I was, no, honestly, he probably stole it from the same batch of stories I stole it from, so I can't exactly be upset about that. Same idea here.
Also, short of outright plagiarism, *I'm* not the one to gripe about idea-snatching. I wrote a book called *Redshirts,* folks. The next one is called "The Kaiju Preservation Society." I'm snatching ideas from all over the damn place. It's okay if people snatch a few I used.
Let me put it this way: Imagine science fiction is a guitar. "Space soldiers" is the A chord. "Time travel" is the C chord. "Aliens" is the G chord, and so on. We all make songs with the same chords. They're different songs.
(Difficult authors use microtonality. Good for them.)
(Difficult authors use microtonality. Good for them.)
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