I am getting mighty tired of certain 'writers' and 'artists' using telepathy and clairvoyance (possibly time-travel, but we all know that's impossible) to steal my fiction ideas before they ever make it to print!
Time and time again I have stumbled across works containing characters, settings or concepts that were uniquely my own, and sometimes these works were produced years, decades, or even centuries before my seminal idea. Sometimes the similarities are so obvious that even names are similar (or are once translated back to English from Sumerian or whatever), they've made no effort to cover their tracks!
This is happening far to often to be a co-incidence, it is clearly a conspiracy. To these perfidious rogues I say "Stoppit, or there'll be trouble! You know who you are." For now I am applying a new tinfoil-hat writing regime.
The real question is are you writing in standard SF tropes and if so, how worked out are those individual tropes? If the answers are yes and a lot, you are bound to find you, along with some totally independent other person working up the same story line or character...
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