Re: SFnal trees

On Mar 15, 11:51 pm, thro...@xxxxxxxxx (Wayne Throop) wrote:
: tkmail...@xxxxxxxxxxx
: A bit out of context from your comment: People that keep transforming to
: tree & back is not unknown in stories from India.

Interesting.  In SF it's a tad rare... Intelligent and/or shapeshifting
trees I mean.  But there's Foster's "Midworld", the Tree which Clan
Korval protects (and vice versa) in the Liadenverse, and the Greens
in Zahn's "The Green and the Gray", who can meld into trees like dryads.
Oh, and the Old Galactics in A Tale of Two Clocks.  And the Sirens,
also from the Hub-verse.  Hm.  I guess not so rare, and I'm sure I'm
only scratching the surface.

Wayne Throop   thro...@xxxxxxxxx  http://sheol.org/throopw

Keith laumer's "Hybrid" comes to mind. And of course Le Guin's "Vaster
than Empires and More Slow"

-DES
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