Bridget Tyler asked Victoria Lee:

I love the combination of technology and magic in Fever King. What inspired you to build this cool new world?

Victoria Lee I'm a STEM Ph.D. student, so I love thinking about things from a scientific angle, which I guess is part of it. But honestly, at one point I was sitting around thinking about "magic schools" and how rare it is to see classes about magical theory and that kind of thing. And I started wondering what it'd be like if a world treated magic like it was a type of science, and studied it as such. And that led me to wonder...well, what if magic IS science, in a way? So the way that magic works in THE FEVER KING was kind of born out of that. Noam's power of technopathy (control over technology using magic) was just an extension of the kinds of magic powers that I think are really cool: the ones that have deeper, more dangerous implications than those immediately clear on the surface. Plus, I mean. Who wouldn't want to be able to control their laptop with their mind? :)

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