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Magic vs advanced technology is a common enough question in fiction that your readers will already be primed to wonder. I agree with Amadeus that the reference to "knobs" is, in and of itself, eno...
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2019-12-20T00:40:40Z (about 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T11:06:07Z (about 5 years ago)
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Magic vs advanced technology is a common enough question in fiction that your readers will already be primed to wonder. I agree with Amadeus that the reference to "knobs" is, in and of itself, enough to tip the reader off. **Magic wands don't have buttons.** What you want though is not just the reader thinking advanced technology but considering where the tech comes from. Is it from an older society? aliens? a parallel but unknown community (like the fairy world in _[Artemis Fowl](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249747.Artemis_Fowl)_)? So **reference the "devastating global war."** You might even talk about how someone invented something but it got taken away. **You don't need much here.** Let the reader have the thrill of figuring it out.
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2019-03-02T19:18:55Z (almost 6 years ago)
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