{"id":10628,"date":"2007-09-28T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/09\/28\/10628.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:58","slug":"book-report-drowned-ammett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/09\/28\/book-report-drowned-ammett\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Drowned Ammett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, having read Cart and Cwidder<\/a>, it seemed logical (nay, inevitable) that I would read Drowned Ammett<\/a>, which I did. And I enjoyed it.\n

The two books are set in the same world, in overlapping times. In this world, there is no workaday magic, and the first half of the book (or so) has no magic at all. The main characters don’t appear to believe in (or think about) magic, so it comes as a surprise to them that magic does come into the plot, and eventually becomes central to it. And it made me think about all the variations on worlds-with-magic.\n

This one seems very common: magic is a myth, until Our Hero discovers that he or she has magical abilities. Then it turns out that there are several people who work magic, probably in secret, some of them probably genetically related to Our Hero.\n

Then there’s the world where magic is acknowledged to exist, but very few people have magical abilities. Magic may be legal but is often illegal, or legal only if used in the direct employ of the government. Our Hero discovers his or her magical abilities, and needs to decide whether to follow magic as a career.\n

There are worlds where magic is common, and most if not all people have some magical ability. Generally, these abilities are mild, but some are more powerful than others. Or magic is not a matter of talent but of training, and many people simply don’t have the training to do more than small household magic.\n

Then there are stories where Our Hero is transported from a world without magic into a world with magic. Or where magic consists entirely of such dislocations, without magic internal to any world.\n

All these have been done—not to death, because there are still lots of good stories in those worlds, but they’ve all been done enough that there aren’t a lot of surprises left in them. Or am I wrong?\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, having read Cart and Cwidder, it seemed logical (nay, inevitable) that I would read Drowned Ammett, which I did. And I enjoyed it. The two books are set in the same world, in overlapping times. In this world, there…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16212,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10628\/revisions\/16212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}