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Subject: Re: Mark S. Geston
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Date: Thu, 26-Dec-85 13:02:41 EST
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From: Jim Hester <hester@ICSE.UCI.EDU>

Geston also wrote "The Siege of Wonder", involving the final battle
between scientists and magicians.  Unlike most such stories, this is not
set in the past, when magic is dying out and science is just being
ddiscovered.  Instead, Magic has long been forgotten by most of the
civilized world, and science is somewhere slightly superrior to our
level today.  Sudennly the magicians come out of the closet, and the war
begins.  Magic doesn't have a chance, since the scientists use their
techniques to learn how to control magic most efficiently (wthout
understanding exactly why it works), and build machines to manipulate
magic in a big way.  A great premise and beginning, but a weak and
depressing ending.