Plagiarism in Fiction: Difference between revisions

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* In [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s short story, "[[EPICAC]]", [[No Name Given|the narrator]] steals poems written by the computer EPICAC and passes them off as his own, in order to get Pat Kilgallen to marry him.

* [[Stephen Fry]]'s ''[[The Liar Novel]]'' contains the oft-quoted line, "An original idea? That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."

* ''[[Animal Farm]]''. Snowball -- [[Blatant Lies|by which I mean Napoleon]] ~~-- comes~~ up with the idea to build a windmill.

* ''[[Animal Farm]]''. Snowball -- [[Blatant Lies|by which I mean Napoleon]]—comes up with the idea to build a windmill.

* The protagonist of [[Robert Silverberg]]'s ''Dying Inside'' makes his (not very good) living by selling plagiarized papers to college students.

* In ''[[Anne of Green Gables|Anne of Avonlea]]''Anne has her fourth class write and send letters to her. One of which turns out to be plagiarized.

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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* A sample character in the ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' book ''Asylum'' is "The Fraud", a member of the mental hospital's facility who made his career by stealing a colleague's work. Now he's screwed, because in order to keep his reputation, he has to keep stealing from the other researchers. Sometimes he wonders whether to kill himself or commit [[Suicide by Cop]] when they finally catch ~~him -- he~~ can't imagine surviving the scandal.

* A sample character in the ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' book ''Asylum'' is "The Fraud", a member of the mental hospital's facility who made his career by stealing a colleague's work. Now he's screwed, because in order to keep his reputation, he has to keep stealing from the other researchers. Sometimes he wonders whether to kill himself or commit [[Suicide by Cop]] when they finally catch him—he can't imagine surviving the scandal.