{"id":3400,"date":"2014-11-01T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2014-11-01T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T20:24:23","slug":"theories-of-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3400","title":{"rendered":"theories of magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tailsteak.com\/reviews\/dragondoctors.html\">Tailsteak writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> All comics have to have a <i>setting<\/i>.  Very often, almost all of that setting can be implied, especially if the comic is set in the quote-unquote &#8220;real world&#8221;.  If you&#8217;re using magic or hypertechnology to drive your plots, however, it&#8217;s important to define how that magic or that hypertechnology works. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Much as some of us would like it to be important, no, it isn&#8217;t. Think of fairy tales; think of Tolkien, who never expounded a theory of magic and probably never thought of needing one.  The scientific approach to magic was, I think, invented by such writers as Fletcher Pratt and Randall Garrett; it is the <em>novel<\/em> feature of their works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tailsteak writes: All comics have to have a setting. Very often, almost all of that setting can be implied, especially if the comic is set in the quote-unquote &#8220;real world&#8221;. If you&#8217;re using magic or hypertechnology to drive your plots, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3404,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions\/3404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}