In article <robertaw-248BDF.22451816032008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Robert A. Woodward <robertaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In article <VQcDj.10527$%15.8397@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> ted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:
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>> In article <eq3Dj.752$p24.452@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Mike Schilling <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >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.
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>> 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!!??..")
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>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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><http://www.drizzle.com/~robertaw>
Yes, I kinda remember that now and that makes more sense. After 3
books, turned into a tree!? Still a really great trilogy. Too bad
there wasn't a lot more Clayton stuff (though she was pretty prolific
in her short years).
Ted
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