Call Me Joe: The Original Avatar Story - By Poul Anderson

Did James Cameron rip off Poul Anderson???
The 1957 story 'Call me Joe" by Poul Anderson is strikingly similar to the 2009 movie 'Avatar' by James Cameron.

[@catswamp1]

I reread it every ten years or so. Thanks.

[@Gunsing5]

Seriously appreciate your videos man and always look forward to new content. Keep up the good work

[@Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber]

Yes, Cameron obviously read Anderson's short story or listened to the popular SF radio show made from it at the time, but hey, did you know that Anderson's story ripped off an earlier story from Clifford D. Simak, story which serves as the premise of the book City (Hugo Award 1953) in which most of Humanity has deserted the Earth to transition to becoming happy forever after Jovians, thus leaving the Earth to sentient dogs and robots?
The story of the first human to fall in love with Jupiter through transferring his mind into a Jovian avatar, is I think the second of the eight tales framed in this fix-up novel that conquered the hearts of several generations of Sci-Fi fans. Cheers! Seven

[@tzeccentric7848]

Weird!! I remember having a dream where my mind took Na'vi and redesigned them to look more centaur like. And mind you, this was just a few years after the movie came out and I had never heard of this _Call Me Joe_ story. What the actual heck!? Did my mind actually get information from the universe!?

[@diakritika]

I think I read a very similar story ~30 years ago in a comic.

[@KaliFissure]

AVATAR was in my mind an almost complete lift from Alan Dean Foster "Midworld"

[@kellybarthel8060]

Avatar is, dances with wolves, is little big man.......

[@54032Zepol]

I always thought it was a rip off of the series old man wars.

[@Softnutt]

No dont see it ha

[@eazypeazy33]

Mhmmm..
I hope he gets his cut 😂

[@billseggie4578]

Pretty close content, can't say a direct ripoff. Both are good stories.