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Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic

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Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 12:55:02 PM UTC+11, hamis...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 12:53:12 PM UTC+11, tsbr...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > The general public learns of magic.
>>
>> Needs a metric tonne more info than that.
>
> I don't think he's asking a YASID as such.
>
> Rather, he's asking for examples of stories where a) magic exists; b)
> it's hidden from the general public; and c) the general public finds
> out about it.
>
> Bending the definition of magic a bit, I think Ken Grimwood's "Replay"
> counts. In one iteration, the protaganists go public with their time
> travelling / body swapping / whatever the hell is happening to them.
> Things do not go well.

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After a few political predictions come true the establishments place the
couple of protagonists into government housing and keep them under
constant surveillance. The establishments disbelieve the couple's story
about recurrent mental time travel to earlier points in their lives.
There's a wisp of innuendo that at least one establishment wants to
simply kill the couple in order to eliminate the couple's clairvoyance
threat to the established social order.

That seems to be the way of it with clairvoyance in stories. You travel
back into time with the knowledge of JFK's impending assassination, for
instance. Just as soon as you try to warn people of it they either put
you into jail for planning to assassinate or they put you into a mental
institution.

_Too Many Magicians_ (Garrett) is an alternate history story with magic
out in the open. But it fails to meet the OP's criteria because the
general public always knew about magic IIRC.

Thank you,

--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms
industry is new in the American experience. We must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by
the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist. - Eisenhower

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YASID: General Public learns of magic tsbrueni@gmail.com - 2016-11-23 17:53 -0800
  Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2016-11-23 17:55 -0800
    Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-11-23 18:14 -0800
      Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 21:28 -0500
    Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic tsbrueni@gmail.com - 2016-11-23 18:28 -0800
      Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2016-11-23 18:43 -0800
      Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-11-24 04:46 +0000
    Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2016-11-23 18:30 -0800
      Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> - 2016-11-24 18:23 +0000
        Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2016-11-25 11:58 -0500
          Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-11-25 10:10 -0800
            Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic tsbrueni@gmail.com - 2016-11-25 10:59 -0800
            Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Don Kuenz <g@crcomp.net> - 2016-11-28 05:44 +0000
          Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic tsbrueni@gmail.com - 2016-11-25 11:03 -0800
            Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic peterwezeman@hotmail.com - 2016-11-25 18:07 -0800
              Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2016-11-26 13:39 -0500
          Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-11-26 06:07 -0800
  Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-11-23 22:42 -0500
  Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 23:01 -0600
    Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-11-24 05:07 +0000
      Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 09:51 -0600
        Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-11-24 08:17 -0800
          Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-11-24 18:55 -0800
            Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2016-11-25 09:31 -0800
            Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-11-25 09:54 -0800
  Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2016-11-26 19:55 +0000
    Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2016-11-27 04:17 -0500
      Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2016-11-27 11:50 +0000
        Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2016-12-08 23:18 -0800
          Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2016-12-11 17:01 -0500
            Re: YASID: General Public learns of magic Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2016-12-14 20:28 -0800

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