Dana wrote:

Harking back to the Deliverance discussion ... I bet that what people really object to are subconscious Mary Sues.

Hard to see that either Terry Nation or Chris Boucher subconsciously wished to fall at Avon's feet.

Though PD has been known to claim that Tanith Lee, author of Sarcophagus, was obsessed with him, so perhaps the Cally alien ?

Tavia