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Please, please Read thid book, . even if it is written by a Scotsman.
({S, the forward is written bty Ken McLeod, so should be good recommendantion...)
"Imagine a world where speaking or writing words can literally and direclty make things happen, where getting one of those words wrong can wreck unbelievable havoc, where with the right spell you can summon immensely powerful agencies to work your will. Imagine further that that in this world there is an administered division of labour, among the magicians them selves and those who coordinate their activities. It's bureaucratic and also (therefore) chaotic, and it's full of people at desks muttering curses and writing invocations, all beavering away at a small part of the big picture. The coordinators, because they don't understand what's going on , demand easy prey for smooth talking preachers of bizarre cults that demand arbitrary sacrifices and vanish with large amounts of money. Welcome to the IT department"
I was going to add more quotes, but realised I was adding half the book... ...The Atrocity Archives
Review: "In the past it took thousands of man-hours to screw up reality, today a laptop can do it in seconds."
({S, the forward is written bty Ken McLeod, so should be good recommendantion...)
"Imagine a world where speaking or writing words can literally and direclty make things happen, where getting one of those words wrong can wreck unbelievable havoc, where with the right spell you can summon immensely powerful agencies to work your will. Imagine further that that in this world there is an administered division of labour, among the magicians them selves and those who coordinate their activities. It's bureaucratic and also (therefore) chaotic, and it's full of people at desks muttering curses and writing invocations, all beavering away at a small part of the big picture. The coordinators, because they don't understand what's going on , demand easy prey for smooth talking preachers of bizarre cults that demand arbitrary sacrifices and vanish with large amounts of money. Welcome to the IT department"
I was going to add more quotes, but realised I was adding half the book... ...The Atrocity Archives
Review: "In the past it took thousands of man-hours to screw up reality, today a laptop can do it in seconds."
