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Future gods.
Oct. 4th, 2007 11:54 pmMany fic ideas have been circulating in my head of late that I must sooner or later regurgitate onto paper. However, in the interest of my ideas, I have to wonder how much it has been done, and how well. My question is this: has anyone ever read any sci-fi/fantasy fics that take place in the future but wherein still exists magic and the gods? I have read one or two pieces, but it inevitably turns out that the magic is simply very advanced scientific creation and the gods are merely super-advanced beings, be they human or alien. For some some reason, most sci-fi precludes the presence of any sort of true divinity in the supernatural form of the word, but I don't think that it has to be that way at all. In fact, I find it rather silly to think that finding out how things works eliminates the reason why they work.
Or, taken another way, how much writing has been done on a fantasy setting taken into the future? What happens when a technological society has its basis in magic? Twould make for much more interesting star travel if a spaceship's drive were powered or enhanced by a pilot-mage. Does magic, by its very essence, necessitate a connection with nature and thus a repulsion of the mechanical? If a society, in general, has easy access to magic, would it ever turn to mechanical things? I don't say science, for magic and science are very similar, save for the conservation of energy at times, and even when magic does conserve energy, life-force is often a very powerful energy. Perhaps it is cliché, but maybe a society would have to already be a ways along the scientific/mechanical path before (re)discovering magic.
I have this one image in my head of a future society discovering that the gods were, in fact, real, but had had a longstanding bet amongst themselves as to how long it would take the fools to realize it. It amuses me much to think of the lectures in the classrooms then. A classroom, very futuristic, with the teacher discussing how, thanks to such and such god, star travel was made possible, or how a particular trickster god started the intergalactic war of 3012...
Or, taken another way, how much writing has been done on a fantasy setting taken into the future? What happens when a technological society has its basis in magic? Twould make for much more interesting star travel if a spaceship's drive were powered or enhanced by a pilot-mage. Does magic, by its very essence, necessitate a connection with nature and thus a repulsion of the mechanical? If a society, in general, has easy access to magic, would it ever turn to mechanical things? I don't say science, for magic and science are very similar, save for the conservation of energy at times, and even when magic does conserve energy, life-force is often a very powerful energy. Perhaps it is cliché, but maybe a society would have to already be a ways along the scientific/mechanical path before (re)discovering magic.
I have this one image in my head of a future society discovering that the gods were, in fact, real, but had had a longstanding bet amongst themselves as to how long it would take the fools to realize it. It amuses me much to think of the lectures in the classrooms then. A classroom, very futuristic, with the teacher discussing how, thanks to such and such god, star travel was made possible, or how a particular trickster god started the intergalactic war of 3012...
