Re: SFnal trees

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:51:39 GMT, Wayne Throop <throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>: tkmailers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>: A bit out of context from your comment: People that keep transforming
to 
>: tree & back is not unknown in stories from India.
>
>Interesting.  In SF it's a tad rare... Intelligent and/or shape****fting
>trees I mean.  But there's Foster's "Midworld", the Tree which Clan
>Korval protects (and vice versa) in the Liadenverse, and the Greens
>in Zahn's "The Green and the Gray", who can meld into trees like dryads.
>Oh, and the Old Galactics in A Tale of Two Clocks.  And the Sirens,
>also from the Hub-verse.  Hm.  I guess not so rare, and I'm sure I'm
>only scratching the surface.

McKillip's Riddlemaster of Hed series has this as a subtheme. And D&D has
several versions of this, from transformation spells that turn you into a
tree specifically to the Polymorph spell that can turn anyone into a tree
to Hallucinatory Terrain which is an illusion generally used for
disguising
your party or army as trees. The last seems quite obviously lifted from
bringing Birnam Wood to Dunsinane, to me.

Dave
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