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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Now: The Day the Magic Stopped edited by Christopher Stasheff
A collection of fantasy stories on a theme. The first ones have been OK, but I doubt that anything will approach Larry Niven's wonderful "The Magic Goes Away". |
It turns out to be an interesting collection of short stories, all obviously written to the same story plan - a brief unexplained break in the availability of magic in a magic Byzantium. The individual stories are fun, and it's interesting to see the differences and similarities between all the stories.
Then I read a short freebie:
Best Present Ever! by Lawrence Watt-Evans
A delightful Christmas fantasy story of a bully, a super soaker gun and .... [Spoiler censor].
And now I'm reading another from the Baen August bundle:
Pirates of the TimeStream by Steve White. It's continuing his time-travel stories in a universe where changing history is not possible (i.e. no paradoxes), but a time war is nonetheless being fought.