Thread: What is Magic?
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Old 31st March 2006, 09:04 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Re: What is Magic?

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Originally Posted by hermi-nomi
This detracts from the topic a little, but wouldn't explaining how magic can exist in a given world detract from it existing in a given world? The only way I can see an explanation of magic in a story working is if the story revolves around the iontroduction of magic into a world (There is a book I've heard of where the premise is exactly that ~ does anyone know what I'm talking about?)
I don't know if it's exactly what you mean, but in Garth Nix's Abhorsen series there are two worlds which border each other, and at the edges magic still works a little way into a generally non-magical world and technology works a little way into the other, magical, world; a little way and no further.
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