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  • Subject: ORIGIN OF HALO
Subject: ORIGIN OF HALO
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Who claims responsibilty for the idea of Halo? Or did they plagirise it from a 1987 Iain Banks novel?

  • 11.27.2004 5:05 AM PDT

Maybe you can identify with this guy who was foolish enough to write to the Webmaster:

Halo. That is so hack.


*cough*


Link


*cough*


Tell the boys in black to write there own plot.


Brian Camozzi


Brian-


That is a lovely Canadian book site. Maybe you used it to order some funny Canadian dictionary where "plot" is defined as "any story involving a ring-shaped structure in outer space," but my Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines it as "the plan or main story of a literary work." A location, even a specific type of location (deserted island, the city of Poughkeepsie, a ring in deep space) is just a location - not a plot. To say Halo lifts Ringworld's plot is like saying The Silence of the Lambs has the same plot as Huckleberry Finn because they both take place in the United States.


When you buy a new dictionary, make sure their definition of "plot" is correct. You might also want to look up the definition of "there."


That clear it up for you?

- Reiginko

  • 11.27.2004 5:17 AM PDT
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Ring worlds are common sci fi ideas, so i dont think it counts as plageriseing. They just took an inspiration from a common sci fi idea, and wrote a plot for a story based on that ringworld.

God i cant spell

  • 11.27.2004 5:55 AM PDT