Re: Furies of Calderon (et seq)

:: Oh, also too this is a case of "everybody's got magic" rather than
:: just a few (though only a few have the highest power levels), as well
:: as a case of "magic displaces technology", ie, gets used for mundane
:: day-to-day things, like pulling stumps or heating water for baths and
:: so on and so forth. 

: ted@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
: And it's implied that this is sub-optimal in some cases.  The protag
: is actually involved with a guy trying to re-invent mechanical tech
: though this gets put on hold for the duration once things heat up. 

Yes... and in books 3 and 4, one group of bad guys has a mechanical
projectile weapon that (in some ways) outperforms the magical projectiles
the good guys use.

Well... I use "bad guys" and "good guys" as terms of convenience; the
actual goodness and badness is somewhat reversed... sort of, sometimes.
And when not reversed, can get a bit muddled.  Which is another good
feature of the series, IMO.

Plus, the old "things secured against magic can be accessed mundanely
if you're not careful about it", and related "overlook the low-tech
and/or low-magic solution" kinds of things.

But even so... furycrafting has the advantage of not needing
nearly so large an infrastructure for most equivalent results.


Wayne Throop   throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   http://sheol.org/throopw