XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: jpolowin@sympatico.ca   
      
   On 2023-09-18 6:38 PM, WolfFan wrote:   
   > 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.   
   > [...]   
   > Any more candidates?   
      
   Charles Stross's "Laundry Files" books, beginning with _The Atrocity   
   Archives_, are more or less in this territory.  Including a   
   petrification effect very similar to the above.   
      
   Joel   
      
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