gregjohn wrote:
> Or you'd have the same theme if they went on a sailing ship to a faraway island,
> found strange beastly apparitions that later turned out to be sentient men, and
> then the ship's doctor's tobacco miraculously cured the chieftain of some
> disease.

Indeed. And I think most people would rate both the Illiad and the Island of 
Dr Moureau as speculative fiction if not sci fi in the latter case. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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