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Originally Posted by BenG
If you want spaceships and magic you could try The Keltiad series by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (Jim Morrison's widow).
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I read them with profoundly mixed feelings.
There have been a variety of attempts to blend the two forms. Melissa Scott did the "Silence Leigh" stories, where magic and science are both valid paradigms, but mutually exclusive: if you use one, you
can't use the other. Fred Saberhagen's "Empire of the East" series featured a catastrophic event before the beginning of the series that altered natural law, so technology and magic both worked. Emma Bull and Will Shetterly have done works set in an area where Faery has impinged upon Earth, and in the Borderlands, magic and science work, but not always or reliably.
Keneally simply presents the co-existence of magic and technology as a given, and makes no effort to explain it. So she can have computer controlled starships delivering armies to distant planets, where naked, blue painted fain warriors will contend with broadswords against their enemies.
She's a good enough story teller that she mostly gets away with it and carries you along while you're reading, but afterward there's a tendency to say "Wait a minute..."
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Dennis