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From: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner)
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Subject: Re: Social implications of magic
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Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 10:22:34 EST
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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[...]

For a relatively contemporary world that has both science and magic,
see "Operation: Chaos" by Poul Anderson.  Examples: the narrator is
a werewolf who was in the lycanthrope corps in World War II.  The group
carried photoflash lights around their necks that gave off exactly the
same colour and intensity of light as the full moon, so they could make
the change any time they wanted.  His beloved was in the witch corps.

Other tidbits: university professors are put under a geas not to get
romantically inclined with students.  Hell is built with non-Euclidean
geometry, and the heroes summon the ghost of Lobachevski to show them
around...

			Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo