The Vagaries of Time
December 8, 2011 in Blogs
I owe an apology to James T. Marsh, whose fascinating article Spellblade I misattributed last time.
As I continue the Examiner temporal anomalies series with Warlock part 4: when, I find myself exploring the impossible solutions to the problem created by the fact that the book cannot have been in the grave in the original history. Had it been hidden somewhere where it would have become available later, or sooner, time would have collapsed and our story would never have been told. Hopefully the article explains why.
My own time was disrupted, as once again a quick drive to the local convenience store turned into the beginning of a much longer string of errands; but I anticipated this, and did what I could to be ready for it. Hopefully I am not now too tired to do what remains for the day.
The prolific author to whom I misattributed the previously mentioned article remains prolific, giving us four more that I know to be his. Eric Ashley has given us Practise Bits: Djinn, in which the wish for world peace brings the beginning of world disaster (although honestly I was expecting that wish to bring the death of every living creature); Practise Bits: Formation in which the movements of the soldiers are the spell components for the magic; and Practise Bits: Fibonacci and Practise Bits: Fibonacci 2, in which it is dancers who form the patterns that raise the magic.
–M. J. Young