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   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:18:40 +0200, Öjevind Lång   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>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.   
   >   
   > That's reminiscent of Peter Dickinson's "Changes" series, where the   
   > British people as a whole reject modern technology as evil magic.   
      
   That's fiction?   
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   derek   
      
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