Re: Argh! General frustration and steam-letting

David Friedman wrote:
In article <46AD0407.6090702@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sea Wasp <seawaspObvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

In article <46ACB749.802@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sea Wasp <seawaspObvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Dorothy J Heydt wrote:



I sent in a story to MZBFM in which a young man is a werewolf and
changes into a slavering beast under every full moon -- until
after July 20, 1969. Years later, he sits in the VIP area at JPL,
listening to the first manned Mars landing and waiting for the
fighting to stop.

They'd landed on Mars, but no one had landed on Deimos or Phobos?


/shrug

I didn't say, so we'll never know.

Are you saying you wrote the story without any explanation for why there was fighting going on on Mars? From your summary it seemed to me that you were saying the first landing on Mars turned out to have werewolves on it.


I took it that a human landing on the Moon eliminated the moon's magical power to turn men into wolves and humans landing on Mars would eliminate the War God's power to make men on earth fight.


Oh. I'd taken it to mean that landing on the moon made the moon part of your world, and thus no longer had otherworldly influence (turning you into werewolves). And thus landing on Mars -- which had unvisited moons) created the potential were problem again (and with the speed of the orbits of Deimos and Phobos, a much worse problem.

Mars, as God of War, is so specifically greco-roman, and the werewolf bit doesn't fit with that, so I didn't see the connection.




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