Yes.
Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?
Submitted 1 week ago by Hickak@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Alice@hilariouschaos.com 1 week ago
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
MITM0@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Anime does this all the time; Especially the ISEKAI-Genre
isekaihero@ani.social 4 days ago
Absolutely yes. One of my favorite anime is GATE. It has a portal open from a alternate world at Roman level technology with legions and classical architecture, but it has dragons, elves, and magic and they send an army through to invade modern day Japan. The counter-attack is insane. Do a google search for “massacre of alnus hill”
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Iron man and other Marvel movies started being very science. Oriented, but quickly combined magic or turned to magic
Glide@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
In any other setting, when we take specific, tiny stones and carve patterns into them until they can perform tasks for us, we call it magic.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes and it sounds cool as hell
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 week ago
That’s prevalent in the Might and Magic series. But (probably depending on the game) the high technology is often hidden from the common folk.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 days ago
DCEU/MCU does this alot. Klarion the chaos lord use chaos magic(different from wanda’s magic) to control starro nanotech, they call it techno-sorcery/magic-tech. but this will never occurs in sci-fi though, since magic isnt really a thing(maginery) when technology and science is used to explain the nature of the universe is involved.
IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Definitely not. I give no reason.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Absolutely. Read the nightlord series, just skip through the first half of book one, it’s the first thing the author ever wrote and could have used better editing for sure. High tech kicks in at book 3
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 5 days ago
All these youngsters forgetting about He-man
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Yes. Do a time travel story and new tech will be seen as miraculous magic by those pesky Elizabethans.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
We have high technology because we don’t have anything else to leverage.
I suspect a world with strong magic is liable to leverage that to the exclusion of technology.
A now-ended iseki story on Reddit’s HFY subreddit called “Wait, is this just GATE?” Asks the question of what would happen if a universe of only technology and no magic (ours) made contact with a universe of pretty much only magic and almost no technology beyond that found in the Middle Ages. It contains some tropes (used mainly as comedic relief or irony) and plenty of references to current magical-universe plot elements from games and novels, but is a surprisingly fresh and compelling examination of the cross-universe idea.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 1 week ago
You know what, basically any SCP will have varying levels of scifi and fantasy tropes, or sometimes none at all. Bottom line with SCPs is that anything is possible.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 1 week ago
royalroad.com/…/dungeon-planet-the-healer-always-…
Found that little gem a few weeks ago and I believe it fits your ask pretty well 1:1
Honestly almost as good as my other favorite the past few years, www.royalroad.com/fiction/63759/super-supportive, but the latter seems to be more active than the former.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
The Psalms of Isaac series did this very well at the beginning – starts off with a magic fantasy land but as you read you realize that there were forebearers with immense science and technology, and weaves a conflict between the two.
capuccino@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It is called Star Wars, and it is one of the many reasons why I do not like it.
BCOVertigo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What about it specifically do you dislike? This type of setting definitely invites questioning by the audience and can break immersion, but I’m curious about your take on it.
capuccino@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think this is the greater unpopular opinion I have, but here I go: It’s something more personal rater than anything. Since child I’ve always fund kinda stupid that a civilization that has ships with space travel capabilities still using swords to fight sigh LASER swords. I always felt Star Wars like a mediaval story, it have swords, magic, incest, politics, and the sci-fi stuff is a big flex tape. I’m pretty sure that without it, Star Wars wouldn’t never be the success that it is.
BCOVertigo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In dungeons and dragons there is a type of hybrid character you can play called an Artificer who treats magic more like technology, anf there are a ton of examples in popular media that others have mentioned. I do think you have to determine how and if you’ll keep them distinct if that’s important to your plot, but if they developed alongside eachother maybe the technology of that world relies on magic to work.
Or maybe your magoc relies on elder gods that don’t like the mortal hubris of critiquing the gods works so attempts to unravel magic gets you cursed or worse.
I think they can go together and the way you fit them can even become a plot point!
_core@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Tad Williams did a decent job in “War of the flowers” There was tech comparable to early 2000’s (smartphones, electricity, cars, etc) but was powered by magic, and magic itself was still capable of being used.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Yep
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Yup.
jasoman@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Starship mage also did it well.