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   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Robert Woodward   wrote:   
   >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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