Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
Charles StrossI'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.
Charles StrossI like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
Charles Stross