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## The Trickster's Apprentice [PDF WARNING!]
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* Author: u/traverseda *With dread but cautious optimism**
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* URL: https://www.smashwords.com/books/download/143347/1/latest/0/0/the-tricksters-apprentice-chapter-1-mise-of-inculcation.pdf
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* Score: 1
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* Created: 2015-01-28T02:52:22
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### Post:
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[Link to content](https://www.smashwords.com/books/download/143347/1/latest/0/0/the-tricksters-apprentice-chapter-1-mise-of-inculcation.pdf)
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### Comments:
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> **u/xamueljones** [+2] *My arch-enemy is entropy* (46 minutes later)
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> Here's a [copy](https://www.smashwords.com/extreader/read/143347/1/the-tricksters-apprentice-chapter-1-mise-of-inculcation) to read on the Smashwords website without needing to download it, if people are wary of downloads.
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>> **u/traverseda** [+1] *With dread but cautious optimism* (50 minutes later)
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>> The formatting is just so bad though.
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> **u/CaptainLoggers** [+2] (13 hours later)
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> I only read this representative first chapter, but I'm afraid I'm not terribly impressed. It fell into the trap of explaining things at a cellular or molecular level without actually producing interesting or novel solutions to problems. Doing an almost correct job of justifying a magic system through current scientific understanding doesn't mean anything unless that explanation is novel in universe (partial transfiguration) or is used in a novel way. Saying that he had the ability to "increase or decrease order" or some similarly traditional magic mumbojumbo could have explained the shelter, healing, and brain-buster just as well, and the extremely wordy modern explanations didn't make the conflict any more novel or interesting.
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> It didn't help that the character didn't stand out much either.
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> It called to mind Ra, which I think did a really good job of providing the physics of magic in a way that made the magic and physics more interesting and brought out narratively significant changes to both.
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> Of course, I might just be salty that despite all the time and effort put into medical and cellular explanations for how the magic worked, he still got a few things obviously wrong.
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