Sort of reminds me of The Life and Death of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland, where witchcraft and time travel (same thing) declined over the development of photography and ended once the first photograph of a lunar eclipse was made.
I haven't read that one from Stephenson but it does sound similar. I've recently finished a book by Owen Barfield, who hung around C.S. Lewis and Tolkien during their writing days, and he's got interesting things to say on that idea.
Sort of reminds me of The Life and Death of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland, where witchcraft and time travel (same thing) declined over the development of photography and ended once the first photograph of a lunar eclipse was made.
I haven't read that one from Stephenson but it does sound similar. I've recently finished a book by Owen Barfield, who hung around C.S. Lewis and Tolkien during their writing days, and he's got interesting things to say on that idea.