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Comment author: kybernetikos 28 November 2010 03:32:33PM *  1 point [-]

There's a fairly obvious answer to that stuff in my opinion. Ventus by Schroeder (scifi) covers it nicely. It would be a structure set up by the atlantians for control of nature, before they ascended probably and left Earth for the stars.

Edit: It occurs to me that the other possibility would be a simulation, originally invented by the atlantians for them to upload themselves into, or perhaps muggles were supposed to be NPCs.

Comment author: MartinB 28 November 2010 04:29:02PM 0 points [-]

Thank you. At first glance I thought that I would be disappointed with that solution. But after reading the Ventus Plot description it sounded pretty neat.

Comment author: kybernetikos 28 November 2010 06:38:20PM 0 points [-]

If you want to read the full thing, rather than just the description, you can download the ebook here. I certainly enjoyed it.

Comment author: MartinB 29 November 2010 12:21:40AM 0 points [-]

done & put on the reading pile