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Old 07-22-2022, 09:05 PM   #22
Anthony
 
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Default Re: You got magic in my scifi game!

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
It seems to me that a very common element in works that are classified as fantasy is what Terry Pratchett described as narrative causality. Fantasy builds up to a recognition, an anagnorisis, and what is revealed is that the world works through the actions of beings with agency, not merely at the human level, but in terms of how nature itself operates: there are volitional beings behind natural events.
While I agree that this is common to fantasy, fantasy and magic aren't the same thing.
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