Another twist? The novel begins with an explanation that but for Thomas Lorenz and his efforts in the Sixteenth Century, the world today would not be living on Mars.
McGath introduces the novel as “fantasy,” but he treats magic in the story itself as seriously as any science. You see some of the complexity and playfulness of this novel, here. Or more literally, it is magic as understood, practiced, and debated in the later Middle Ages in Middle Europe. The “magic” is not imaginary as in today’s fantasies, it is real. If you consider that today’s entire trend toward solar power, for example, and electric cars, depends upon the quality of battery technology, then this magic is eerily contemporary.īut The Magic Battery, written by an abundantly experienced writer in fields of technology and much else, is set in Sixteenth Century Saxony (later a part of Germany).
Gary McGath has given his first novel the title, The Magic Battery. What breed of author does it take to write, today, a novel about “magic” and “mages” that warrants the characterization “one of a kind”? There are no rings, here, no dragons, no soaring boy wizards.
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