should i sue?

[adelaidesean]

First there was "The One", and then there were the spherical Void ships in Doctor Who, so obviously ripped off Geodesica. Now it's Ron "BSG" Moore's new show, Virtuality, which revolves around the crew of a long space mission whose everyday interactions are being filmed (against their will) for a reality TV show broadcast back home. Could that sound any more like "The Soap Bubble"?

I am joking about suing, of course. There are no new ideas. Still, word that Virtuality might be canned before it's even begun makes me unhappy. I still think it's a good idea.

Comments

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Red Mars was published in 1992 and I wrote "The Soap Bubble" in January 1993, so it's certainly possible. And just because Ron Moore is Australian doesn't mean he ever came across Alien Shores (published 1994). Curses! There go my billions in compensation!

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm wrong on that point too. (Curses again!) Getting him mixed up with the first director, I think. Trying to remember his name, but drawing a blank...

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Gregory Benford's Martian Race etc. does, part of the financing for a private Mars mission is mucho media deals.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Triple curses!

[damienw]

Isn't that more or less one of the sub-plots for the orbiting crew in Aldiss' Helliconia novels? (First one is '82 or '83 I think...)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I've read them but don't remember anything like that. Still, it wouldn't surprise me. TANNI, and all that. :-)

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! We're sure to win.

Oh, and congratulations!