Is there a sequel in the works for this story? the ending seems to cry for one!!
Is there a sequel in the works for this story? the ending seems to cry for one!!
You should ask the author.
I wonder where he might take the story. At the end, the protagonist was exhibiting god-like powers. The 'Second Time Through' series went the way of extraterrestrial aliens/gods and there seemed to be foreshadowing through Alex's interest in the stars.
AJ
The story's got two very good things going for it before one even starts to read it.
1) It's by Phil Brown, author of the 'Second Time Through' series, which gets asked for in the 'Lost Stories' section.
2) The title 'Lightning in a Bottle' is shared with the excellent story by Sage Mullins.
AJ
Just finished it. It was a good read.
It did seem to me to have echoes of "Stranger in a Strange Land" to my perception.
2) The title 'Lightning in a Bottle' is shared with the excellent story by Sage Mullins.
Which is confusing to me because I believe it to be pseudo-plagiarism to use a title someone else has already published and made popular.
(unless it's a 'mistakes happen' thing)
Book titles cannot be copyrighted in the US
https://www.ingramspark.com/blog/whats-in-a-name-choosing-your-book-title
Here's 7 that have the same titles - https://bookriot.com/books-with-the-same-title/
Book titles cannot be copyrighted in the US
They can however be trademarked, though that's not automatic like copyright.
2 new things learned from this thread...google is my friend lol, didn't know or think about either before...
Apparently if they are part of a series or part of your "brand" they be trademarked...
"The law is clear that you cannot trademark individual book titles, but a title for a series of books can be trademarked since it serves the role of a brand."
https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/can-trademark-title/
"It is possible to register the title of your book in connection with goods and services you provide under that title, so long as those goods are not sales of your actual book.
Here's what we mean—nobody really just writes a book anymore. People write a book and then create a brand, and sometimes even a movement, around it. That brand is then used on websites, blogs, tours, courses, and all kinds of merchandise"
https://smallbusinessbodyguard.com/you-cant-trademark-your-book-title-except-when-you-can/
Hmm, neither of those articles claiming that book titles can not be trademarked fail to cite any of the following:
1. The relevant section of US Trademark law.
2. An opinion of the US Patent & Trademark Office
3. A court opinion to that effect.
If it was so clear that book titles can't be trademarked (absent a connection to trade goods as if the book itself isn't a trade good) surely one of those three would be easy to come up with.
nobody really just writes a book anymore
Agents and publishers at the dead-tree end of the market certainly place a high degree of importance on your plans for your next book, not just the offering you're currently circulating.
AJ
Which is confusing to me because I believe it to be pseudo-plagiarism to use a title someone else has already published and made popular.
It's too late for SOL to insist on unique titles.
Some SOL titles have more than one instantiation. I may have contributed to at least one multiplication.
AJ
the ending seems to cry for one!!
Cry, scream, yell, rant and rave.
Just finished it. Good story.
Re-used titles….
I wasn't meaning to say it was illegal or immoral to use the same title as someone else's work.
I just meant that "I" wouldn't do it if I could possibly avoid it.
Too much like opening a burger chain and naming it "McDougals" with a huge yellow "m" for the logo, and a signature sandwich called the "Big Mack".
I wasn't meaning to say it was illegal or immoral to use the same title as someone else's work.
Calling it "pseudo-plagiarism" kind of implies immoral.
Too much like opening a burger chain and naming it "McDougals" with a huge yellow "m" for the logo, and a signature sandwich called the "Big Mack".
Hey, it was McDowell's in 'Coming to America'.
Remember when McDonald's Corporation decided to sue McDonald's Family Restaurant in Illinois? Which had been around since 1956, and was actually owned and run by Ronald McDonald? (Seriously, that's his name.) The big corporation lost that one.
The fun one was when McDonald's corporation decided to push against a restaurant named McDonald's ... in Scotland. That was owned by clan McDonald. The corporation was told in no uncertain terms to back the fuck off, or THEY'D get sued because the Clan had royal decrees going back more than four centuries regarding ownership of the name.
The fun one was when McDonald's corporation decided to push against a restaurant named McDonald's ... in Scotland. That was owned by clan McDonald. The corporation was told in no uncertain terms to back the fuck off, or THEY'D get sued because the Clan had royal decrees going back more than four centuries regarding ownership of the name.
I've read about that one. The version of it I read said that The McDonald of clan McDonald sent an official representative in full clan regalia to the McDonald's corporation's UK headquarters and told them in considerably more flowery language: "If you want some, come get some".
McDonald's (the fast food corporation) decided it didn't want any.
The ending may cry for a sequel, idk, haven't gotten to the end yet, but the main story cries out for an editor.
Edit: Just finished it, and what gave away that there might be a sequel? The fact that the story's last two words are "Part One"……………??? Smh