How many mysterious beings live secretly among us - in works of fiction? In different works, Poul Anderson has time travelers, immortals and aliens. Other candidates are mutants, superheroes, werewolves, former gods etc. In Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, a former Babylonian goddess is an exotic dancer. See Temple Prostitution.
In Fables, Bill Willingham adds another group, exiled fairy tale characters living secretly in New York. And such characters could have showed up in Anderson's inter-universal inn, the Old Phoenix, where the guests include Sherlock Holmes, Huckleberry Finn, Nicholas van Rijn and Sancho Panza - all fictional to us but real to themselves.
Good night and may Morpheus send sweet dreams.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And in "Interloper" we see Poul Anderson showing us ELVES as living secretly among human beings.
Sean
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