jenna moreci
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Magic Systems that wish they were Science — Worldbuilding Ideas
Video Information Cold Open Last year I came across one of the most interesting and bizarre interpretations of “magic” I’ve ever seen in a work of fiction. The book Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is… weird. Exceptionally weird. Cities built around the corpses of impossibly-large monsters, beetle-headed Women in deep romantic relationships with humans, god-like trans-dimensional spider-artistes that go around playing with the “weave” of reality… that kind of weird. And the magic is no exception. Just… not for the reasons you might expect. Instead of the traditional “wizardry” or “sorcery” Or “witchcraft”, what they practice in the… Read More