Starship mage also did it well.
Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?
Submitted 23 hours ago by Hickak@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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jasoman@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Alice@hilariouschaos.com 23 hours ago
Yes.
AA5B@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Iron man and other Marvel movies started being very science. Oriented, but quickly combined magic or turned to magic
Glide@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
In any other setting, when we take specific, tiny stones and carve patterns into them until they can perform tasks for us, we call it magic.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Yes and it sounds cool as hell
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 23 hours ago
That’s prevalent in the Might and Magic series. But (probably depending on the game) the high technology is often hidden from the common folk.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
The Psalms of Isaac series did this very well at the beginning – starts off with a magic fantasy land but as you read you realize that there were forebearers with immense science and technology, and weaves a conflict between the two.
capuccino@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It is called Star Wars, and it is one of the many reasons why I do not like it.
BCOVertigo@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
What about it specifically do you dislike? This type of setting definitely invites questioning by the audience and can break immersion, but I’m curious about your take on it.
capuccino@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I think this is the greater unpopular opinion I have, but here I go: It’s something more personal rater than anything. Since child I’ve always fund kinda stupid that a civilization that has ships with space travel capabilities still using swords to fight sigh LASER swords. I always felt Star Wars like a mediaval story, it have swords, magic, incest, politics, and the sci-fi stuff is a big flex tape. I’m pretty sure that without it, Star Wars wouldn’t never be the success that it is.
BCOVertigo@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
In dungeons and dragons there is a type of hybrid character you can play called an Artificer who treats magic more like technology, anf there are a ton of examples in popular media that others have mentioned. I do think you have to determine how and if you’ll keep them distinct if that’s important to your plot, but if they developed alongside eachother maybe the technology of that world relies on magic to work.
Or maybe your magoc relies on elder gods that don’t like the mortal hubris of critiquing the gods works so attempts to unravel magic gets you cursed or worse.
I think they can go together and the way you fit them can even become a plot point!
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
Yep
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 23 hours ago
Yup.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 22 hours ago
Like most things by Philip K. Dick, the man who has more movies based on his writing than any other author?