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Originally Posted by Hitch
Weird, I thought I'd answered or responded to this yesterday, but apparently, I imagined it. :-)
What kind of plagiarism? Stealing the text, verbatim? Stealing the plotline and characters, but modifying it? Or...? (There are many options to answer this, sadly...)
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In some of the books, the plagiarist was quoting chunks of text verbatim plus stealing the plotline and characters with the names changed to protect the guilty. Another was basically changing the names of the characters and running the text through a thesaurus which led to some interesting word choices.
The other item that was more my dislike than hers was the amount of jumping on the bandwagon though most of that was not plagiarism per se. Someone is getting popular writing about whatever so other authors jumped on the bandwagon in hopes of sharing that popularity. What I disliked most was the ones that were labelled as science fiction when the level of science would not have made the grade in a 1920's pulp magazine.