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  • Magic Systems that wish they were Science — Worldbuilding Ideas

    Magic Systems that wish they were Science — Worldbuilding IdeasVideo 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