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From: laneg@ulowell.UUCP (Dromio)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Social implications of magic
Message-ID: <256@ulowell.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 20:51:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 23 20:51:58 1986
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In article <1559@gitpyr.UUCP> ccastkw@gitpyr.UUCP (KENNETH E. WALKER) writes:
>
>I would suggest you read Barbra Hambley's (i think) Darwath Trilogy (it 
>begins with "The Time of the Dark"). Although the situation in that case is
>a little different from the Classic FRP one, the class implications of magic
>are well thought out.
>
>
Or, for those lesser minds who prefer science fiction, there's 'Magic,
Inc.', a novelette by Robert Heinlein, which deals with a contemporary
society (actually, around early 1950, but that was contemporary when the
story was written) in which magic is an industry on roughly equal footing
with other industries. The hero of happens to be a building contractor
specializing in magical construction and subcontracting, who has a curse put
on him by the Mob for not paying protection-well, I won't give out the good
parts, but--

			a lesser Power of Darkness