Clarke's Law

[bloodyrosemccoy]

God DAMMIT, Jeph Jacques:

"When you think about it, all fantasy novels are actually science fiction novels. Magic is just nanotech." - Hannelore's Twitter

Well, there goes the unique novel idea I was developing. Back to the drawing board.

Comments

[van.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, I love that Clarke's Law. It's annoying at times, but AWESOME, too, because I'm a person who doesn't believe in "magic" but I do love science, and I love that someday the magical things I want to exist will because we've made them possible through science.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Hee. I have all sorts of ways to explain magic in my stories--the most recent is the idea that it's in a parallel universe with slightly different laws of physics. (There are particles that complement protons and electrons that don't exist in our world, which makes crossing from there to here a little difficult when you've got those particles in your body.) It makes for a nice scientific cop-out.