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Magic Will Take Your Job
Magic would not sit on top of a medieval world. It would create something entirely new, affecting crafting, politics, culture, and what it is like for those without access.
If Schrödinger Wrote Fantasy
The Flux takes a quantum mechanics concept as its world-building premise and follows it all the way down, to where wanting to be alone is a sin.


Spell Lists Are a Failure of Imagination
A spell list is a menu. Treat spells as sentences instead, a verb on an object, and a handful of symbols covers a near-infinite range.
The Problem With Immortality in Fantasy
Fantasy treats immortality as a gift. Follow the mechanism instead of the myth and you get something else: something beautiful, hard, and brittle.
