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    What Goes Up...
    What Goes Up...
    What Goes Up...
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    What Goes Up...

    By Ed Teja

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    Imagine a future world that pushes magic into the fringes of respectability. Using logic and reason, avoiding superstition is the only way humanity can make progress — morally and ethically.

    Imagine a future world that pushes science into the fringes of respectability. The ability to sense, to intereact with unseen forces has become the only way humanity can make progress — morally and ethically.

    There is a balance between those forces, but at best it is unstable and unsteady. Attitudes change.

    A compelling short story of a fantastic future world dancing in the light of the polarization of those two forces. It's a world Harlan Ellison or Rod Serling might find normal, even comfortable in how out of joint it is.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFloat Street Press
    Release dateMay 26, 2022
    ISBN9798201666705
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