Fictional and Literary Crystals

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I found an old detective story called Crystal Skull which has murder

and suspense set around two crystal skulls and the Mayan calendar this

led to reflecting on the many stories and legends written which in some

way feature crystals or stones. These stones in fiction may be

either real stones or fictional stones . Some books have references to

stones in the title or foreword and may not have anything much to do

with them in the book and those are disappointing but others have

been wonderful. There are also a number of movies and even tv shows or

which revolve or involve stones and crystals in some way . The Dark

Crystal is an obvious one. Most of the Star Trek series and movies

refer to the Dilithium crystals which power the engines.

 

Fictional crystals include the Matrix stones of the Darkover Novels

by Marion Zimmer Bradley and some sacred fossilized bone cheek insets

from a book called Water Witch. At least two of Mercedes Lackeys books

have people traveling through giant rock collections . The superstition

that suggests that it is bad luck to wear an opal if opal is not your

birthstone may date from a Sir Walter Scott Novel " Anne of

Geierstein " , published in 1831. in this work Anne had an opal that that

reflected her moods: it shone red when she was angry, blue when she was

sad and green when she was happy. When Anne died, the opal faded and

lost all of its color. The last observation may have actually been based

on a fact: opals can deteriorate and change from a colorful, glassy

stone to a rather colorless mass of a chalky silicon dioxide .

 

Wilkie Collins " The Moonstone " published in 1868 one of the earliest

suspense thrillers , is still considered a classic of the genre, still

stands as an exciting and worthwhile read today. The title refers to a

huge yellow diamond looted by a British officer from a Indian sultan's

treasury.

 

Ann McCaffrey has a Crystal Singer series. Crystal singers have the

perfect pitch , allowing them to sound out the valuable and strategic

mineral known simply as crystal. In the first novel in the series we

meet Killashandra Ree, who finds herself a member of the Heptite Guild,

one of the " lucky " few who will help find and mine the crystal. The

crystal is used in power plants of nearly all vehicles in the galaxy,

and the mining of crystals is a major industry. However, the crystal is

found only in any useable quantities on a single planet, and is

accompanied by a symbiotic parasite that ensures the crystal miners,

crystal singers, must never be off planet for too long.

 

The Amazon Warrior SF/Fantasys of Sharon Green include " The Crystals

Of Mida "

When the sacred crystals of Mida are stolen and her sisters are slain in

the theft, War Leader Jalav rides with her tribe to recover the stolen

crystals. Her quest is about to take her straight into lands of man who

try to civilize her.

 

There are many romances which feature necklaces and other jewels and

Sherlock Holmes dealt with the Blue Carbuncle and there are many other

novels and short stories which in way have the rock friends in the .

Stones in fiction can be jewelry or tools of mystic power or

intelligent sentient beings . Any way There must be hundreds of other

books and stories that have stones or crystals in them andI would love

to get together a list of as many as possible with brief reviews or a

little information about them . Do you have or recall and books that

significantly feature stones and crystals

 

Peggy

 

 

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Peggy Jentoft

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