short story 7: The Green Wall Said

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 05 Apr 2012, 16:11 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 09:11:43 -0700
Subject: (urth) short story 7: The Green Wall Said
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DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:
> (Note there is no literary tradition of alien abduction.)

I disagree. Fae _are_ alien, and there is definitely a tradition of
their abducting humans. (The class example would probably be the
ballad of Tam Lin.) Modern alien abduction stories are merely a
continuation of that tradition in a culture that has by-and-large lost
belief in the Fae as such.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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