![]() ![]() Is it just a few people or is it something available to everybody? If it’s just a handful of special people who can turn lead into gold, that implies different things than a story in which there are giant factories churning out gold from lead, in which gold is so cheap it can be used for fishing weights or radiation shielding. If you posit some impossibility in a story, like turning lead into gold, I think it makes sense to ask how many people in the world of the story are able to do this. One way to look at it is in terms of whether a given phenomenon can be mass-produced. But I think that there does exist an useful distinction to be made between magic and science. Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that there’s actually no meaningful distinction to be made between the two. Avi: You have very specific views on the difference between magic and science. ![]()
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