A thing I wrote in my previous episode got me thinking about the topic for this next one, an episode about trying to wrap my mind around a definition for magic. And to wrap my mind around that definition inside the context of fiction that fits into the category of magical realism—and also adjacent sub-genres like surrealist fiction, science-ish fiction, and paranormal stories.

See, in my last episode I said it in a similar context, but I kinda glanced past a quote by Arthur C Clarke, a fairly renowned author of hard science fiction —you know, spaceships, futuristic intergalactic settings—who famously said “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” —which I think sums up the core of this episode in a very simple and meaningfully precise way. But I’m going to take twenty minutes of your time and unpack it all anyways.

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