Sufficiently Advanced Magic (Arcane Ascension, #1)

by Andrew Rowe

There is no fencing term I’m aware of for drawing a pistol and shooting your opponent in the face, but that was what it felt like when I heard his final words.

It had never been my dream, but I’d never been great at fitting society’s expectations in general.

“You will read — nay, study —” she actually said nay? I aspired to that level of pretension,

All I had to do was bend — and the fear had won. The fear always won.

No amount of reassurance could completely neutralize an irrational fear.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”