I have been recently looking for stories that feature Wiccan and Neopagan characters. Does anyone on the forum know of any that I could look up?
Honestly, I'd like to see
One - some Pagan characters that aren't walking stereotypes.
Two - some Pagan characters who aren't Wiccan, or who don't claim to be something other than Wiccan and then pretty much just embody the public stereotypes of Wicca.
Three - Some Pagan characters who are just people, with the Paganism being a facet of who they are rather than a defining characteristic.
Well, it does sound indeed like there is a large opening in the world for Pagan fiction. What kind of Pagan stories would you like to see from the SFF genre. I feel like there are a lot of ways a story like that could go wrong, but also a lot of ways it could be amazing.
Wha kind of Pagan stories from the SFF genre would you like to see?
The Fifth Sacred Thing and Walking to Mercury by Starhawk feature pagan characters. They might be a bit hard to track down though.
There really aren't a lot of others though that are explicitly pagan though I have seen work that has some coded pagan content.
I think it's an area that authors have been reluctant to enter into.
Practical Wicca doesn't have the wizz bang of a lot of fictional magic. I've been practicing fourteen years and I have yet to light fires with the power of my mind or levitate but I am a lot closer to the patterns of nature and life than I once was.
Thanks for the recommendation. Cheers!SM Stirling "Dies the Fire" series has some pretty well done Wiccan characters. One of the settlements in the book(s) is founded by a Wiccan Coven.