XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: robertaw@drizzle.com   
      
   In article <0001HW.2AB908E800787E9370001026838F@news.supernews.com>,   
    WolfFan  wrote:   
      
   > So I was re-reading Asimov recently, and one of the stories was Pate de Foie   
   > Gras, about the goose that laid the golden egg. This is a special goose:   
   > it’s a nuclear reactor. It converts oxygen-18 to iron-56 to gold-197. As   
   > gold is a heavy metal and toxic, it gets rid of the gold as plating in its   
   > eggs. Which are infertile, thanks to the gold. There’s a lot more   
   > sciency-style detail about the experiments which determine how it does this.   
   >   
   > Poul Anderson once had a fantasy involving all kinds of magical creatures and   
   > all kinds of magical effects, such as certain creatures turning to stone on   
   > being exposed to sunlight... and inflicting a curse on any who plunder their   
   > stoney bodies. Obviously, if carbon is transmuted to silicon, it’ll   
   > probably be a _radioactive_ isotope of silicon... Similar sciency-stuff for   
   > other things.   
   >   
   > And Randall Garret perpetuated a story in which he alleges that the original   
   > Thor was a time-traveller with a big handgun. Yeah, there were frost giants,   
   > who were really naughty. Yeah, “It flew from his hand! Smote them! Crushed   
   > them! And returned!"   
   >   
   > And David Brin has Thor meet Captain America, but not the way most think. And   
   > Loki’s a good guy.   
   >   
   > Any more candidates?   
      
   Do Rosemary Kirstein's _The Steerswoman_ and sequels qualify? There are   
   people who are referred to as wizards and monsters such as dragons and   
   basilisks, but it all Clarke's Third Law fakery. Also "demons" showed up   
   in a sequel, but they were an alien species.   
      
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