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Re:The Egg (By Andy Weir) on Monday March 31, 2025 @05:52PM (#43540384)
You do know Andy plagiarized The Egg, right? He literally copy pasted a conversation he had with me in 2007 on the MySpace religion and philosophy forum. The world is still waiting for him to get his actual due.
Re:The Egg (By Andy Weir) on Monday March 31, 2025 @05:49PM (#43540357)
That’s because it’s not actually by Andy, he stole it. He could never write anything like it if his life depended on it.
Re:The Egg (By Andy Weir) on Monday March 31, 2025 @05:48PM (#43540352)
That’s wrong. He plagiarized it from a conversation he had with me in 2007 on MySpace. He sat on it for 2 years, then published it on his website in 2009.

It’s the reason he has a career to begin with. Had he not published the Egg, the Martian would never have taken off in 2011. The reason he resents it is because he’s embarrassed that he plagiarized it.

Re:The Egg (By Andy Weir) on Monday March 31, 2025 @05:44PM (#43540320)
That’s because he didn’t actually write it. He stole it from a conversation he had with me in 2007 on the MySpace religion and philosophy forum.

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Re:The Egg (By Andy Weir) on Monday March 31, 2025 @05:41PM (#43540294)
You’re recommending a fraud that plagiarizes other people’s work
Re:The Egg (By Andy Weir) on Monday March 31, 2025 @05:40PM (#43540283)
That’s because the “author” copied most of it from a MySpace conversation he had with the actual author, who largely agrees with you.