A rant on magic vs. science.

Feb 24, 2005 12:00

I've been set upon one as I read The Dresden Files, which are fairly good, but also have some warts. It's ( Read more... )

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darthhowie February 24 2005, 09:40:28 UTC
Well, I always thought the point of magic was that it CAN'T be explained by science. That's why I always harp on fanta-tech in science fiction stories. It's also why I hated the IT'S REALLY SCI-FI plot twist in the Resident Evil series. Magic loses its character if it becomes too simply repeatable. It needs something extra, super-natural, really. Now, I DO agree that people WANT to believe in magic and that we eat that crap up. But I think authors should go out of their way to make magic unscientific and irrational. It's more fun that way. And I just lost all sense of whatever the hell I was trying to say because the phone rang twice while I was writing this. Fnord.

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