Talk:The Cold Equations

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Early science fiction did... what?

Either I'm missing something in reading the sentence, or this is a very slanted point of view: "...the power of entertaining people other than shallow pseudo-intellectuals and frustrated academics." That's neither nice nor accurate about early full-fledged science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke and those guys were selling like hot cakes! Am I reading this wrong?The Realms of Gold (talk) 07:59, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Similar stories

I separated stories that are similar from stories where a specific allegation of borrowing has been made. Useful to have all of the data. --GwydionM (talk) 11:45, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is not about interpretation. It states that they are similar. No link is claimed. --GwydionM (talk) 10:56, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GwydionM, the suggestion that they are similar enough to warrant mention here is in itself a claim that requires a source. This is a Wikipedia article, not a forum; this is not the place for us to opine at length about other stories that this one reminds us of, unless a reliable source explicitly makes that link. There are hundreds of sci-fi stories about the crews of spacecraft facing moral dilemmas over limited or dwindling resources of one sort or another, but it's just not appropriate to list them at length here. Unless we have a source expounding upon thematic links between these stories, they just aren't encyclopedically relevant to the understanding of this topic and it is pure WP:Original research to decide they are so similar that they must be mentioned here. If you can provide a source on this topic, that would, of course, be another matter altogether, but I see none supporting the mention of these stories, making their presence here a completely arbitrary cross-categorization, which policy explicitly directs us to avoid. Snow ^{let's rap} 17:36, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You seem intent on upholding two decidedly silly principles:

a) Throw away as much data as possible, rather than making readers aware of connections.

b) Nothing may be mentioned without a written source, even it is banally obvious.

Unfortunately the regulators might agree with you and have done so elsewhere. So I'll not bother further. You waste your own time, you will waste no more of mine. --GwydionM (talk) 09:20, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is that the case for those who state Robert Cromie's "A Plunge into Space" from 1890 has effectively the same story?--2606:A000:131D:4413:80FB:1EDC:9FA3:2AFF (talk) 14:23, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Copied from Lightspeed Magazine?

From "Allegations of borrowing" on, this article seems to be a nearly word-for-word paraphrase of http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/the-cold-legacies . JadeNB (talk) 00:40, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you check the article history, and the publication date at Lightspeed, you'll see that this is because Mike Brotherton did a "nearly word-for-word paraphrase" of the "Allegations of borrowing" secction. DS (talk) 12:00, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]