I sucked it up and read Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away all the way through. It felt like doing homework. The manna part, the part I was interested in, was only slightly elaborated upon and the story itself was mostly typical S & S stuff with weird worlds and weird people with weird names. Then I discovered I read the wrong story. I was supposed to read Not Long Before the End (in the same book) which I did enjoy. It was pretty much what I was expecting. An excerpt:
His last experiment involved a simple kinetic sorcery set to spin a metal disc in midair. And when that magic was done, he knew a truth he could never forget.
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