Confounding Variable: A Science Fiction Tree, Short Story
by Brian GarrisonPublish: Nov 08, 2016Science Fiction Fantasy Book Overview
Mayor Darius chided mother, “It’s probably just a wolf-pack, sniffing the wards.”
Mother denied it was wolves, but she could only say it was “something different this time.”
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This short story is inspired by fall Renaissance Festivals. It’s clearly sword and sorcery fantasy, and yet it fits within my overall imagined future. With utmost respect to the awarded and knighted Clark, whose third law is: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” I wonder, what if a colony with advanced tech finds it easier to think of their tech as magic?