COMMENTARY, Physics of the supernatural CeeViews

In the last posting I praised Poul Andersen for sticking to normal physics in his alternative world. By the same token, one of the the things I hate about the Briggs-Mercy Thompson world is the flouting of natural laws. Humans gain about fifty pounds when they take their werewolf form, for unknown reasons. And in a greater discrepancy, Mercy's coyote form weighs no more than a real coyote, about 40 pounds. Briggs blithely asserts that "this is magic, not science." I think her reason may be to explore coyote-wolf relationships, with the tinier coyote being more nimble as well as sneakier. Still rotten physics.This is the only series I've found where matter relationships are ignored.