Seems like it'd be kinda hard for him to land directly in either of those situations.
Rick Cook's Wiz series, where magic is explicitly the ability to program the universe, now...
Or maybe ReBoot!, as I tend to think of Mainframe as akin to our level of reality and the "User" as an incomprehensible, transdimensional Eldritch Horror, because nothing it does and nothing about the Games makes any sense when you try to compare them to the way we use computers and the things we do with them.
--Sam
"No more splainin'!"
Rick Cook's Wiz series, where magic is explicitly the ability to program the universe, now...
Or maybe ReBoot!, as I tend to think of Mainframe as akin to our level of reality and the "User" as an incomprehensible, transdimensional Eldritch Horror, because nothing it does and nothing about the Games makes any sense when you try to compare them to the way we use computers and the things we do with them.
--Sam
"No more splainin'!"