Ice Worms in Culture
Scottish-born Canadian poet of the Yukon Robert W. Service wrote the poem, The Ballad of the Ice-worm Cocktail, in which a fake ice worm made of spaghetti is the subject of a bar bet. This may have contributed to the impression that ice worms are mythical creature. There is a different song of the same name by Canadian artist Jenny Omnichord, which is highly factually accurate. Organisms similar to ice worms have appeared in science fiction in the short story Glacial by Alastair Reynolds and the novel Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton. In the annual February Ice Worm Festival of Cordova, Alaska, a long imitation ice worm is paraded through the streets like a Chinese new year dragon dance.
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