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- From: corun@access.digex.com (Corun MacAnndra)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Why Science Fiction?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:24:37 -0500
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- In article <2440@hsdndev.UUCP> 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)
-
- But MZB *is* science fiction. But I understand your distinction. Personally,
- I don't think it's so much a matter of pagans et.al. being into science
- fiction, as it is science fiction fans being into paganism. Granted, there
- are many fans who claim to be pagans without understanding it fully, like
- it was some kind of role playing game or something. But I believe it's
- science fiction and fantasy (which is really redundant if you think about it)
- that have opened minds up enough to let them accept the idea that paganism
- isn't something to be shunned or feared.
-
- Not all who enjoy science fiction are fans. Not all who claim to be pagans
- are religious.
-
- ><> IT IS A VIRTUE TO HAVE AN OPEN AND INQUISITIVE MIND. <>
-
- Very true.
-
- Bb,
- Corun
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- Corun MacAnndra | What appears to be coming at you,
- Dark Horde by birth | is coming from you.
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