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on 5/5/02 11:46 AM, Alice K. Turner at aturner6 at nyc.rr.com wrote:
Without following the argument very closely, let me suggest that with the Annese, GW references the fairy tradition--he is not alone among good sf writers to do so.
True; in fact, he does so explicitly, in Marsch's notes (157, Ace pb). But that doesn't necessarily mean that the Annese can actually shapeshift. It could indicate that, just as the "paleolithic, Caucasoid Pygmies" on Earth (157) had been mythologized into shapeshifters, the same mythologization had taken place with the Annese.
--Adam