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    From David Dalton@1:229/2 to All on Wednesday, August 12, 2020 03:28:19
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    From: dalton@nfld.com

    Have any of you ever used the links in networks including the Internet and cellular networks as part of your magickal workings, or have you considered such usage? How do you think it should be done? Do you know of any SF stories that have featured such technomagick?

    If my assisted shaktipat eventually is successful, the

    dragon lines, updated

    item should prove useful in such technomagick for assisted shaktipat
    recipients as well as for me.

    (The dragon lines formed on my arms and then on my back after I observed a
    web chart on TV in early 1996, but of course the web has evolved greatly
    since then. I call them dragon lines since they seemed similar to the dragon lines in The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, though those were not related to technology.)

    --
    David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "That no one seemed to have the time to cherish what was given/Oh and I
    would be the last to know and I would be the last to let it show" (S.McL.)

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  • From David Dalton@1:229/2 to All on Friday, August 14, 2020 01:31:43
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.fantasy, alt.books.marion-zimmer-bradley
    From: dalton@nfld.com

    On Aug 12, 2020, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<0001HW.24E3BC7B00061E4170000D4022EF@news.eternal-september.org>):

    Do you know of any SF stories
    that have featured such technomagick?

    There are far more stories where there is conflict between
    magick and technology.

    --
    David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "That no one seemed to have the time to cherish what was given/Oh and I
    would be the last to know and I would be the last to let it show" (S.McL.)

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  • From Ted Nolan @1:229/2 to dalton@nfld.com on Friday, August 14, 2020 04:07:42
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.fantasy, alt.books.marion-zimmer-bradley
    From: ted@loft.tnolan.com

    In article <0001HW.24E6442700039B2B700008D8D38F@news.eternal-september.org>, David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> wrote:
    On Aug 12, 2020, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<0001HW.24E3BC7B00061E4170000D4022EF@news.eternal-september.org>):

    Do you know of any SF stories
    that have featured such technomagick?

    There are far more stories where there is conflict between
    magick and technology.


    Has "Waldo" been mentioned?

    Also, Devon Monk's Allie Beckstrom books are very much about the industrialization of magic.
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From superkuh@1:229/2 to David Dalton on Sunday, August 16, 2020 13:18:42
    From: superkuh@superkuh.com

    On 08/12/2020 12:58 AM, David Dalton wrote:
    Do you know of any SF stories that have featured such technomagick?

    For science fiction about "technomagick" try out Scott Meyer's "Off to
    Be the Wizard" series. It starts off with an implausible
    programing-based metaphor magic system but the abilities and constraints
    remain consistent. It's firm magical scifi and they're fun geek-culture nostalgia reads.

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