Magic is real.
Discovered in the 1970s, magic is now a bona fide field of engineering. There's magic in heavy industry and magic in your home. It's what's next after electricity.
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...
You can buy Ra in the following formats:
Read from top to bottom. Ra is a complete story.
Ra was originally published serially on Things Of Interest and Everything2 simultaneously. You can still read Ra on Everything2 here:
Ra is adapted from work I churned out during my 30 First Drafts project in November 2010. Remember, these are first drafts, written in an average of two hours each. Ra is a whole different story, and any similarity in plot or universe is coincidental...
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