She had thought that the change was temporary and the magic of reading would reappear once she was off certain drugs and exhausting treatments.

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"I first had the idea of Frankie and his Magic Football when reading stories to my own children, " he said in a statement.

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Set a billion years into the future, the Numenera mythology is not your typical fantasy or science fiction setting, though Cook says the blend of magic and machinery should be familiar to readers of far-future fantasy such as one might encounter reading Gene Wolfe.

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