Why the focus on networking, the structure of things, where most stories stop at basic code related spellcasting?
Kelly: I think it’s because as a writer I’m really interested in what lies beneath, how the world goes together. Code as spellcasting is an interesting mode for magic, but if I’m going to go there I want to spend a lot of time creating the underpinnings and thinking about the rationale. Why codemagic? And how codemagic? And whose codemagic? What really gets me excited is laying out the history of world that would support a given magic system and looking at the difference in the dynamics between it and ours. Kim: Why the Greek gods behind it all rather than some other group? Youve said you like to play computer games—a misspent youth playing Wrath of the Gods? Kelly: It’s more that I grew up on the classics. I was raised by techno-hippies, computer people who also loved literature and who instilled that love in me before more or less letting me loose to grow up in whatever way I wanted to. Starting from the moment I was able to read for myself I ended up digging into Greek and Roman pla
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