changing the immutable gods

Matthew King · 04 Apr 2006, 21:13 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: automatthew at gmail.com (Matthew King)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:13:17 -0700
Subject: (urth) changing the immutable gods
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On Apr 4, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

>> 8. The gods will turn out to be fairies, a.k.a. extraterrestrials
>
> OK, I'm missing the referent here...
>

Primary referent would be Castleview, but I recall there being  
several short stories where fairies are identified with aliens.   
Enough so that on the last one of these I read, I was waiting for the  
association to pop up.

Wouldn't it be nice if I could cite which stories?  I will have to  
skim the tables of contents of the collections this evening.

Regarding the equation of gods with extraterrestrials (and thus  
faeries), I may be conflating Wolfe with somebody else.  Bad form.

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