Monday, January 6, 2014

But how? Magic, duh

Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but Clarke left out the law's compliment: that any insufficiently edited fantasy book is a lot like advanced science. Pick up a fantasy book and there's a good chance that midway through it, a character will explain the orderly make-believe world better than any physicist can explain ours.

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