So, I thought I was writing Sword and Sorcery, but then I realised that the civilisation I was going to write about was more advanced than that. Muskets and cannons exist and are a major part of warfare. The government is less feudal and more approaching modern democracy (and all the problems that come with those transitions). Magic and Technology are pitched against each other. Guns have put firepower in the hands of the populace and they are questioning why magic users should have so much power, but mass production doesn't exist yet and there is still a place for cavalry and pikemen in the army, and the occasional sword. There are books and printing presses, a middle class is emerging and people of common birth are rising in power and wealth while the nobility are declining.
Is anyone else writing in a world like this? Has anyone ever written in this sort of world before?
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