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Originally Posted by alansplace
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Oh nice, thanks for digging that up, Alan. I remember reading about it a long time ago somewhere buried in this thread. It is interesting how Jim writes and how much he likes sarcasm when retelling real life stories.
Dresden Files has the strange effect of being absolutely believeable. There is other books that go a little bit overboard with trying to explain everything that is different than our own world - especially when it comes to explaining futuristic gadgets in SF books. The way Harry is telling us the story, there is nothing that needs explained because we don't grasp the technology yet. It needs explained because while it already exists and some magic much longer than ever, we are simply unaware of it. I guess that is a feature of urban fantasy. It has to be in a real setting without a completely strange world that is all made up. You know right away that middle earth doesn't exist, not even a long time ago. As compared to the made up fantasy elements mixed in with the real world in the Dresden-verse. Makes you wonder ...