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   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "Dirk Thierbach"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:20090810083912.2016.3.NOFFLE@dthierbach.news.arcor.de...   
   > Troels Forchhammer  wrote:   
   >> I acknowledge that there seems to be an element of authorial   
   >> preference involved: very few authors successfully create worlds of   
   >> both kinds (both the technological and the magical);   
   >   
   > But I don't think that is really the problem: Quite a few authors   
   > can, and very successfully. Eg. McMaster Bujold. And mixing technology   
   > and magic isn't so difficult, either.   
      
   A really fascinating example is Roger Zelazny's "Jack of Shadows", where one   
   half of the Earth is ruled by magic and the other one by laws of nature. And   
   then there is Fred Saberhagen's "Changeling Earth" trilogy, where magic   
   comes into being as an unforeseen result of an American government programme   
   meant to nullify the destructtion of a nuclear war. Almost all machinery   
   except the most primitive ones (windmills and the like) simply stops   
   working, and its powers turn into other powers of a supernatural nature.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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