XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:45:31 -0500, Lynn McGuire   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 9/20/2023 2:08 AM, Default User wrote:   
   >> WolfFan wrote:   
   >>    
   >>> Any more candidates?   
   >>    
   >> A modern example is the Innkeeper Chronicles series from "Ilona   
   >> Andrews" (a husband/wife duo). It starts out seeming like an urban   
   >> fantasy. Dina is the keeper of a magic Inn, where she travels through   
   >> portals the marketplace with many strange creatures. A group of   
   >> Vampires is expected for stay. And she detects that a Werewolf has   
   >> moved into the neighborhood.   
   >>    
   >> But it turns out it's all supposed to be science fiction. The Inn is a   
   >> living being that's psychially linked with Dina. The Vampires are   
   >> humanoid warrious with fangs, from distant worlds, not undead   
   >> bloodsuckers. The Werewolf is the descendent of bioengineered soldiers   
   >> from yet another world.   
   >>    
   >> Now, the science is pretty soft, especially the biology (her sister has   
   >> baby with a Vampire) and this would I think fall in the "science   
   >> fantasy" category.   
   >>    
   >>    
   >> Brian   
   >   
   >No more softer than the Liadens having babies with Terrans.  Liadens are    
   >from another Universe, not just another planet.  Of course, there is the    
   >Jurassic Park argument, biology will find a way.   
      
   I don't see that being from another Universe, as such, matters.   
      
   Those who believe that the Universe is fully-determined or entirely   
   mechanistic, for example, would, it seems to me, have to agree that,   
   if two Universes had the exact same physics and the exact same   
   starting conditions, then they would progress /identically/ in every   
   way, simply because no alternatives exist. So, if the Liadans came   
   from the Earth of the alternate Universe, then they and Terrans would   
   be -- the same species. With the same history, the same languages, the   
   same cultures.   
   --    
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   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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