Re: SFnal trees

In article <VQcDj.10527$%15.8397@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:

> In article <eq3Dj.752$p24.452@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Mike Schilling <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >David DeLaney wrote:
> >> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:51:39 GMT, Wayne Throop <throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> 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.
> >
> >_Speaker for the Dead_'s sentient trees fit in here somewhere. 
> >
> >
> 
> In Jo Clayton's excellent Duel of Sorcery Trilogy, the heroine is turned
> into a tree at the end of the first book.  (And since most of the
plotlines
> seemed resolved, and since I didn't know it was going to be a trilogy,
I'm
> going "What!!??..")

I am fairly certain that was the THIRD book (there was a sequel 
trilogy that starts with her changed back about 2 centuries later).

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Robert Woodward <robertaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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