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- From: alizard@tweekco.uucp (A.Lizard)
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- Subject: Re: Why Science Fiction?
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 10:08:54 GMT
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- traite@dante.harvard.edu (Shirley Traite) writes:
-
- > I was just wondering does anyone have any ideas as to why so many wiccans/
- > pagans/neopagans into science fiction?? Sometimes I feel like I'm the
- > only one out there who doesn't read science fiction. My preferred
- > recreational reading tends towards historical fiction, social/political
- > histories (epecially of the Middle Ages... well I AM in the SCA), mythology,
- > anthropology, herbals and historically inspired fantasy.
- > (M. Zimmer-Bradley, Diana Paxton, K. Kurtz etc)
-
- There are a number of reasons for this, ranging from the impact on the
- pagan movement of Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land
- (can anybody say Church of All Worlds?) to the basic idea that science
- fiction / fantasy readers get involved with these areas to get a look
- at alternate realities; paganism is a sheaf of realities different
- from the mainstream religious realities we grew up with. And I am
- familiar with the writers you mention. Quite familiar, as the best
- place to find most of their books in either bookstore or library
- is in the science fiction section.
- Blessings,
- A.Lizard
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