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Commented on The Rules of Magic
Once you've got a set of rules, doesn't it become science and not magic?...
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Chrisj commented on
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1. All information is the same in the Laundryverse. It's not equivalent to "food" (as in the statement that all 'vores eat food), it's not equivalent to "meat" (as in all carnivores eat meat, because no carnivore eats all kinds of meat), but it's equivalent to, say "steak" (as in human carnivores eat steak). It's all one type. Otherwise, there would be a whole ecology of infovores eating different kinds of information, and they wouldn't be able to translate among systems. Brain eaters wouldn't eat computer programs, and so forth. I don't think we've got enough information (sorry) to say...
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Andreas Vox commented on
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A soul is that which stays constant when a character in a story changes his/her body....
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Greg. Tingey commented on
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As per Jack Chalker, I assume?...
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Greg. Tingey commented on
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Clarke's law & it's reversal?...
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paws4thot commented on
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OK, I've just started in on the author's series, and I think this idea of parallel (well more or less) Worlds with differing magic (and technology?) levels is interesting....
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