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Author's Note

This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible universes is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe it's not as fictional as we think.

. . .

It was a rehash of the lectures from Practical Thaumaturgy, or what we called "Magic 101." "'Magic' is simply a way of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore," our instructor had told us, quoting someone whose name I've already forgotten. "Some parts of the Altiverse listen--those are the Magic worlds. Some don't and would rather that you listened to them. Those are the Science worlds. Understand that, and the whole thing is kind of simple."

Of course, "kind of simple" is a relative concept in a school where even the remedial classes would give both Stephen Hawking and Merlin the Magician nosebleeds.

--InterWorld
Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves

Good eats.

Oh, and I have pictkors