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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Very good book. The sequel is great too. Although I wouldn't really call them Supernatural, more a SciFi/Fantasy combo IMO.
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I wouldn't call Tinker supernatural at all. As you mention, it's an SF/fantasy combo. In this case, a portal has opened near Pittsburgh connecting Faery with our reality, and the protagonist must cope with the issues involved.
Emma Bull explored similar territory in her novel _Finder_, set in an area where Elfland has impinged on our reality, and Bordertown is an area populated by both species, where both science and magic work...erratically, because the natural laws governing the place are confused and contradictory.
Patricia Keneally did a whole series called Celts in space, where both science and magic worked, and FTL starships guided by computers delivered naked, blue painted Fian warriors to battlefields where they went mano a mano against opponents while mages opposed each other with spells.
Kenneally made no effort to explain how it was possible, and some of her assumptions don't hold up under scrutiny, but she was a good enough story teller to mostly pull it off.
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Dennis