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   From: dthierbach@usenet.arcornews.de   
      
   Taemon  wrote:   
   > Dirk Thierbach wrote:   
      
   >> And mixing technology and magic isn't so difficult, either. Anne   
   >> McCaffrey has already been mentioned, LeGuin did it very   
   >> explicitely in /Rocannon's World/ (and came up with a nice marriage   
   >> of relativity and a fairy-tale motif), Vernor Vinge did, and lots   
   >> of others I can't remember in the moment.   
      
   > Julian May. I just finished rereading the Saga of the Exiles.   
      
   Yes, for example. (Don't remember it so well, has been long ago).   
   Or Andre Norton (also successful with both SF and F). Or Jack Vance,   
   Fred Saberhagen, George R.R. Martin, Poul Anderson, Walter M. Miller,   
   and so on... Or the "protagonist discovers ancient technology that does   
   magical things" motif. Or the "magic that is really psi-abilities" motif.   
      
   > Oh, boy. I review fantasy for the public library   
      
   Anything you can recommend? :-)   
      
   > and it really makes one   
   > wonder if all genres suffer from such a high amount of waste of paper.   
      
   According to Sturgeon's Law, I don't think it's restricted to Fantasy.   
   "Pulp SF" was called "pulp" for a reason.   
      
   > Gods, grant me a fantasy book with a prophecy that doesn't come   
   > true.   
      
   Having a prophecy which doesn't come true probably makes no sense in a   
   story, unless you base the story on it ("we've got lots of prophecies,   
   and just have to pick the right one..."). But I think the traditional   
   way is to make the prophecy ambigous (and, if possible, not obviously   
   ambigous), so when it comes true, the outcome is not quite what is   
   expected...   
      
   - Dirk   
      
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