Jack Vance - The Greatest Author of the Golden Age of Science Fiction

i've been doing a lot of work in preparation for the next death sentence episode. What i hadn't yet done was go back to jack vance. He basically invented, you know, magic systems as we're used to thinking about them. Vancyin magic is its underlying supposition is an epistemological one. And by contrast, magic realism is folkish. It derives from folklore. It is non exclusive. There is anybody who listens,. who wants to hear the traditions and rituals of realist magic can do so. You can find it speaking to the old woman in the village, or the wandering night, or whoever. So that's the main distinction between these two systems of

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