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February 25, 2025

What Tech Level Is Your Fantasy Part 5

A large brick building with a really tall chimney. A row of houses are in front of it behind a brown privacy fence.

So, let’s talk about computers. Which we think of as a very modern thing. Secondary world, Medieval style fantasy doesn’t typically have computers.

With one very notable recent exception, that being Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors, which is a secondary world with cell phones and social media.

But computers have a longer history than most people think, and a very interesting one!

Let’s find out.

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