You can't fool the metal

I been thinking today about fight scenes, fantasy elements, and a particular scene from Falling Free. I've been trying to figure a way you can balance the admittedly cool and kick arse things you can do in an urban fantasy setting with the cold truths hard SF is better at, the ones where you can fool most of the humans most of the time, but you can't fool the metal. Math, physics, chemistry, it doesn't care for rhetoric or reasons, so you can only push it so far before it all crashes down. Too much magic in a story forgets that, and that loses something important. ( Read more... )