Top 20 Internet Top 100 Short Stories Novellas, Novelettes Home Hugos Nebulas P.K. Dick Locus Grand Masters Newbery Fire in the Mist Holly Lisle P.K.Dick 1993 Entertaining but little depth or character development.
People frequently manifest petty attitudes, foolish behavior and mean-spirited communication.
When these people are the elite of a society, college students, and magic professors, however, and when this behavior is so consistent, the story quickly goes beyond the boundary of believability.