I always adore your recs, but this set has my joy-meter vibrating at the far end. Truly. I had to stay up until 2am to finish the Walt Bannerman story. And the Universal Remote one has been re-recced in my LJ. Well, because.

But speaking of deities, there was a kind-of low-key story in the Sentinel sometime back where Jim was a WWII fighter, and Blair was a faun sent by The Gods to assist him ...