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Magic is real.

Discovered in the 1970s, magic has matured into bona fide field of engineering. There's magic in the factories, magic in your television. It's what's next after the information revolution.

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Student mage Laura Ferno has designs on the future: her mother died trying to reach space using magic, and Laura wants to succeed where she failed. But first, she has to work out what went wrong. And who her mother really was.

And whether, indeed, she's dead at all...

Ra is a science fiction story that was completed on December 13, 2014, written by Sam Hughes, creator of Fine Structure and the other works at Things Of Interest. It is a distinct reworked story from Sam's excursions during the 2010 NaNoWriMo.

The story centres around Laura Ferno, an extremely talented mage in training university student majoring in Thaumic Engineering.

The story is heavily told through Magic A Is Magic A and Magibabble.

Available here.

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