Older Than They Think/Literature: Difference between revisions

* Guess what I'm describing here: years after a world-changing event, a mysterious group causes humankind to evolve into a single entity, with sides of Apocalyptic imagery. I'm describing [[Childhood's End]], a 1953 novel by Arthur C. Clarke, which Hideaki Anno admitted was an inspiration for [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]].

* [[The Book of the Named]] predates ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' by about twenty years, though it has the disadvantage of having been almost entirely out of print from the mid nineties until recently. While most fans of the latter who get around to reading the former pick up on the differences very quickly, that hasn't stopped some who [[Did Not Do the Research]] from crying foul against Clare Bell.

* David Gerrold had to get clearance for the original [[Star Trek]] episode ''The Trouble with Tribbles'' (1967), from [[Robert Heinlein]], whose 1952 novel ''The Rolling Stones'' had a quickly reproducing Martian species known as 'flatcats.' Heinlein pointed out that the idea had been used much earlier, in ''Pigs is Pigs'' by Ellis Parker Butler. "A story about guinea pigs, beaurocracy [sic] and multiplication. First published in the September 1905 issue of American Magazine."

* [[Isaac Asimov]] [[Trope Codifier|popularised]] the idea of robots which by their design are incapable of harming humans (in sharp contrast to the usual clichéd depiction of robots as mechanical Frankenstein's-monsters), but there was at least one earlier depiction of such robots, in the [[Adam Link]] stories of Eando Binder.