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'''''Operation Chaos''''' is an [[Alternate History]] [[Magitek]] novel by [[Poul Anderson (Creator)|Poul Anderson]]. It takes place in a world where technology never advanced past a primitive combustion engine, so instead magic takes its place in all things in an otherwise modern (for the time the book was written) setting. [[Mundane Utility|Cars and trucks are replaced by flying brooms and carpets, crystal balls act as televisions, radios, and telephones, were-creatures use flashbulbs created by the Polaroid corporation to transform at any time instead of just by the light of the moon, and Ivy League colleges have courses in witchcraft.]]
 
The narrator (a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolf]]) recounts a series of tales (originally four separate short stories) involving various paranormal adventures, from [[World War II]] (which took place against an Arab Caliphate that invaded the United States) through the Sixties, culminating in one that links them all together.
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* [[Evil Eye]]
* [[Flying Broomstick]]: A common mode of transport (approximately equivalent to cars, or maybe motorcycles)
* [[Genie in Aa Bottle]]: Literally in the World War II chapter, figuratively in the college chapter.
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: Steven and Virginia.
* [[Got Volunteered]]: In World War II, all US soldiers were enchanted to be fearless and obey orders.
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* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: In many different flavours of [[Our Werewolves Are Different|were]], activated via a special flashbulb.
* [[Weather Dissonance]]
* [[Youth Is Wasted Onon the Dumb]]
 
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