Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and FantasyCarl B. Yoke, Donald M. Hassler |
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... young protégés . Just as in medieval accounts he must disappear in order that King Arthur can reach maturity as a ... young people from the modern world meet Merlin . Thus although he is helpfully transformed into a variety of shapes by ...
... young protégés . Just as in medieval accounts he must disappear in order that King Arthur can reach maturity as a ... young people from the modern world meet Merlin . Thus although he is helpfully transformed into a variety of shapes by ...
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... young , he has not yet received a sign of approaching youth . If immor- tality is the unnatural and therefore intolerable prolongation of an insufferable life , as Shelley and Leiber agree it is , then the Man who never grew young is ...
... young , he has not yet received a sign of approaching youth . If immor- tality is the unnatural and therefore intolerable prolongation of an insufferable life , as Shelley and Leiber agree it is , then the Man who never grew young is ...
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... young man with the rejuvenating blood who had to run for his life from aged billionaire Barry Sullivan . Week after week George was hunted by a nefarious agent of the billionaire and various other henchmen . Because the series became no ...
... young man with the rejuvenating blood who had to run for his life from aged billionaire Barry Sullivan . Week after week George was hunted by a nefarious agent of the billionaire and various other henchmen . Because the series became no ...
Contents
Is There Life After Immortality? | 19 |
A Recent Idea | 39 |
The Elves of J R R Tolkien and Sylvia | 57 |
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