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The setting is reminiscent of Jack Vance's Dying Earth. Although, initially, I got a Darrell Schweitzer vibe from the characters and settings. John Brunner's The Traveller in Black also comes to mind. This holds true for the first part of the story. The second part, well, it was jarring with the stark difference in settings. Going in I imagined that if the dark half of the world was archaic and magic worked then the light side of the world would be the pinnacle of science. This was not so. The l
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