Circle of Magic - books one and Two
by Tamora Pierce · first published 2001
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…Hell, Orson Scott Card stole the ansible from LeGuin's Hainish novels. Without the school aspect, it could be Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. Without the flying in mid-air, it could be Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic books or Sherwood Smith's Wren's Quest series.
on “JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard” ↗…suppression backfired; excluding fire created an unnatural build-up of dry brush and overcrowding of trees that’s partly fueling today’s mega-fires. In a fantasy book from 1998, the third book in the Circle of Magic quartet [0], a green mage gets extremely pissed off at a fire mage who between him and his father had been preventing forest fires for decades. By the end of the book, just such a "mega-fire" formed…
on “California’s Wildfire Policy Backfired (2019)” ↗…works in this series plus the way the whole situation was presented I just kinda figured this risk was well-enough known, so it's been weird to me over the past decade or so how it keeps coming up. * Circle of Magic #3, Daja's Book
on “The perverse policies that fuel wildfires” ↗This was used as a magical trait in Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic books. One of the characters has the ability to see magic and beings at the edge of her vision ("around" her glasses).
on “'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain” ↗