Talk:The Sparrow (novel)

How the Book Became SF
This is going to be hard to document but I was working in a bookstore when it all played out. This book was released as a non-genre fiction novel. Yes, it had two alien races and interstellar travel but the publisher put "fiction" on the cover and it was shelved all over the country in the fiction sections of bookstores. It was widely mentioned that the publisher discouraged Russell from mentioning any SF influences in interviews. The nature of the book led to its not selling all that well on the shelves alongside mainstream fiction. After awhile, people started to shelve it in their F&SF sections and, what do you know, it sold better from there. Something fairly similar happened with William Goldman's _The Princess Bride_ But there was more reason not to shelve it with F&SF because it seemed more reasonable to shelve it with his other work. However it, too, started to sell when it was re-shelved. Will in New Haven —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.186.154.139 (talk) 16:12, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

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The Sparrow and A Case of Conscience
There have been a couple of recent reverts regarding the title of this section. Since there is no clear reference for plagiarism I believe that the title of this section should be The Sparrow and A Case of Conscience. Does anyone have any references to support defining this as plagiarism? Captain-tucker (talk) 01:45, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree with you, and I would prefer there to be no direct statement of plagiarism. Tb (talk) 03:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree as well. I have read both books and there seems to be only a superficial similarity. I've never heard of there being any controversy over it. --  Etacar11   06:23, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I reverted the heading back to "The Sparrow and A Case of Conscience" --Captain-tucker (talk) 18:41, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I again reverted the heading back to "The Sparrow and A Case of Conscience" --Captain-tucker (talk) 18:30, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

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