Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ltuxa!we53!busch!wucs!wucec2!ph From: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Darkover's Sharra <=> X-men's Phoenix? Message-ID: <1291@wucec2.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 09:56:46 EST Article-I.D.: wucec2.1291 Posted: Fri Jan 24 09:56:46 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jan-86 08:47:35 EST References: <1668@Shasta.ARPA> Reply-To: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn) Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis Lines: 15 In article <1668@Shasta.ARPA> interran@Shasta.UUCP (John Interrante) writes: >Some of you may have noticed that there's a remarkable resemblance >between Sharra (of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series) and >Dark Phoenix. It isn't just Phoenix and Sharra, too. Darkover esps >(those with laran) almost always had red hair, and Jean Grey/Marvel >Girl originally was an esp with red hair, too. By an odd maybe-coincidence, one of Lilandra's favorite oaths, which she had occasion to use during the whole Phoenix business, was "Sharra and K'ythri preserve us!". Can anyone shed more light on this? --pH /* * "I'm dead. I'm dead! Maybe in a day--or a week--or an HOUR * . . ." */