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Yeratel:
Just a thought, but you might try Jim Butcher's Furies of Calderon.   :)

thausgt:

--- Quote from: knnn on March 17, 2009, 05:12:20 PM ---Or you can go the Zelazny route and not tell *anything*.   Everyone else takes it for granted, and the hero (and the reader) pick up bits and pieces along the way. 

...I think that's why so many of his characters start the story with amnesia

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The other useful way would be "the master lecturing the apprentice". A more familiar format would be "Batman teaching Robin", especially back in the early days. Consider how Harry talks to Molly when they're in those roles. It's an opportunity for Jim to pass along a few refinements to how magic (and the rest of the Dresdenverse) works to the reader, under the guise of Harry teaching Molly.

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