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Plagiarism from D&D in Shadowlands, by Peter Straub [minor spoilers]
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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 443959" data-attributes="member: 259"><p>I've been meaning to read some Peter Straub for awhile, and so last week I picked up his novel <em>Shadowland</em>, which tells the story of a couple of teenagers who learn about magic. It's fairly dark, set in the 1950s, and pretty cool, in a hallucinatory stream-of-consciousness way.</p><p></p><p>Except.</p><p></p><p>About a third of the way through the book, one of the teenagers shows another one a list of spells that he might learn from his mentor. And I kid you not. The spells are divided into nine levels, with "sleep" and "light" among the first-level spells, and "maze" and "wish" at the ninth level, with magic jar and telekinesis and invisible stalker and stuff in between.</p><p></p><p>There's no other mention of our beloved hobby in the book: the spells are mentioned as if they're Straub's original creation.</p><p></p><p>Has anyone else heard about this? Has Straub apologized for this pathetic plagiarism? Did TSR sue him?</p><p></p><p>My guess is that Straub, writing this book in the late 70s (it was published in 1980) thought that no one would ever know about his source material, thought he'd get away with a little bit of laziness.</p><p></p><p>It kinda ruined the book for me, so I thought I'd see if anyone's heard of it.</p><p></p><p>Daniel</p><p></p><p>PS I put this in General Discussion b/c I'm wondering about the D&D-related aspects of the book; if it should be in the non-RPG fiction forum, could a mod move it? Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 443959, member: 259"] I've been meaning to read some Peter Straub for awhile, and so last week I picked up his novel [i]Shadowland[/i], which tells the story of a couple of teenagers who learn about magic. It's fairly dark, set in the 1950s, and pretty cool, in a hallucinatory stream-of-consciousness way. Except. About a third of the way through the book, one of the teenagers shows another one a list of spells that he might learn from his mentor. And I kid you not. The spells are divided into nine levels, with "sleep" and "light" among the first-level spells, and "maze" and "wish" at the ninth level, with magic jar and telekinesis and invisible stalker and stuff in between. There's no other mention of our beloved hobby in the book: the spells are mentioned as if they're Straub's original creation. Has anyone else heard about this? Has Straub apologized for this pathetic plagiarism? Did TSR sue him? My guess is that Straub, writing this book in the late 70s (it was published in 1980) thought that no one would ever know about his source material, thought he'd get away with a little bit of laziness. It kinda ruined the book for me, so I thought I'd see if anyone's heard of it. Daniel PS I put this in General Discussion b/c I'm wondering about the D&D-related aspects of the book; if it should be in the non-RPG fiction forum, could a mod move it? Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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