City writer planning to sue Avatar director

An amateur Beijing writer alleges Avatar director James Cameron plagiarized his work and said he plans to file a lawsuit, seeking 1 billion yuan in compensation.

"Eighty percent of the plot and the key elements of the story are similar to my 1997 science fiction novel, Tale of the Blue Crows.

The obvious similarities definitely cannot be coincidence, said Zhou Shaomou, general manager of a Beijing-based hi-tech business, who also writes fiction in his spare time.