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Lifted from a thread over at nkjemisin.com
james_nicoll
NK Jemisin asks

“Does epic fantasy have to be set in the past, or use bygone technology?”

Which gave me an amusing idea I haven't worked out what to do with yet:

You know what would be an epic stage for an epic fantasy? A Dyson Shell! [snip the specific model I had in mind]
(Magic comes in because obviously you can’t built a shell given real world constraints on materials…)


Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are comment count unavailable comment(s); comment here or there.

Isn't this a colorary to Clarke's 3rd Law? Any magical fairy dust nanotech which is indistinguishable from magic is magic?