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From:  http://smellslikescreensp...fluenced-or-plagiarized/

Ever since the details of the Avatar plot-line surfaced, a small flame of controversy has surfaced questioning it’s similarities to Poul Anderson’s 1957 Science Fiction short story Call Me Joe. The buzz over the parallels center around the fact that both stories follow a wheelchair-bound human who has their consciousness projected into an artificial cat-like creature that is adapted for life on a world that doesn’t support humans.

Check out the list of parallels below:

1. Both main characters, Ed Anglesey (Call Me Joe) and Jake Sully (Avatar) are paraplegics

2. Both main characters connect telepathically to artificially created life forms in order to survive the alien planets

3. Anglesey & Sully revel in the freedom and power of their new bodies

4. Both artificial bodies are blue and cat like

5. Both characters battle fierce predators on the alien worlds

6. The main characters both end up going native and spend more time connected to their artificial bodies

Cameron is not new to this kind of scrutiny since this also happened when he first released Terminator and writer Harlan Ellison sued both the production company Hemdale, and distributor Orion Pictures for plagiarizing two episodes he wrote for The Outer Limits TV series, Soldier & Demon with a Glass Hand. The lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum and with Ellison gaining acknowledgment at the end of the film.

And a comment posted with this article: 

The movie Avatar appears to be nothing more and nothing less than an updated, plagiarized version of the 1955 Robert Silverberg sci-fi novel, “Revolt on Alpha C”, which was written two years earlier than the Anderson novel.  In Silverberg’s novel, an earthman takes an interstellar voyage to an enchanted planet, complete with lush, rain forests and FLYING REPTILES, to help put down a revolt of the local inhabitants. Once he wins the confidence of the locals, he begins to empathize with them, and,at the last minute, switches sides and fights on their side. Sound familiar?  

AND from: http://www.timeslive.co.z...ytimes/article274744.ece

Now a group called the Communists of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region Organisation have labelled the director "scum" and are calling for Cameron's arrest, claiming the film has a lot in common with a popular series of 10 novels published in Russia in the '60s.

The World of Noon or Noon Universe was written by brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and, like Avatar, is set in the 22nd century on a planet called Pandora inhabited by a group called the Nave. In Avatar, the natives are called the Na'vi. Arkady is dead, but Boris Strugatsky has reportedly shrugged off the similarities