One thing I’m reading a lot of lately is crossgenre stuff. You know, Dying Earth, The Engine’s Child, that sort of thing. It’s interesting to see the combination- to see science as magic and vice versa. I’ve been planning off and on for over a year now on a far future, post end of civilization novel series about nanotechnology as magic. Been tickling at my brain for awhile now, getting closer and closer to fertilization. I’ve posted about it before (mostly at the old blog, before moving)- the main concept is that magic (which takes forms of nanotechnology shaping into a sort of familiar to do the mage’s bidding) is controlled by a relic that reads the thoughts of the caster.
This relic is basically based on the current advances in using thoughts to run computers. Usually using clunky machinery and lots of wires. Since this is far in the future (after technology rises and falls) I can perdict something smaller, something less clunky, something wireless (and maybe solar powered)? These relics would send wireless signals to the familiars, thus enacting the magic.
An idea that I keep toying with. probably will shelve it again shortly, come back to it again in a few months.
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