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Re:Argonne researchers posit way to locally circumvent Secon... by pavel_lishin on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @03:16PM (#12849198)
> the author decided to abandon the series because someone stole his work to destroy his ability to publish it.

What do you mean? It seems like the author was publishing it for free online already; how would one steal that work and prevent him from publishing?

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Re:Argonne researchers posit way to locally circumvent Secon... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:13PM (#12849663)
There are some details scattered around the forum. For starters, one quote from the author[0]:

"The third part never got written. We had a contract signed to publish them and they'd been prepared, copy-edited and put into paperback novel format (I actually have the author's preprints) when a . . . . person . . . . stole the copy and published it himself as a torrent. As a result, the whole deal fell through and nobody will touch an already-published work. So, without any possibility of generating return, I ditched the project. There's no chance of going back to it now."

I once saw a more detailed story about the guy who stole the copy and alleged reasons for doing it, but I can't find it right now.

[0] - http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t...

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