I continue to enjoy these books. They're popcorn reads, but they're just fun, even though they're full of death and mayhem. I like that there's a wide variety of magic and magic users involved, too - the magic world here feels like an ecosystem, rather than having one or two different types of magic users and that's it. And for a world that's so focused on magic, it's unsurprising that magic eventually, as it does here, become the target. The continual shifting between technology and magic that characterises the setting would, I think, eventually lead to fundamentalists on either side. Most people would find a way to adapt to both, or at least to live alongside both, but there's always the lunatics. Their motivation is so pitiful, too. 

That is, I think, the most believable thing about the tech-fundamentalists here. They're not at the top of the heap anymore, or at least not in the way that they think they should be, and so the rest of society is wrong. It can't be that some people are more adaptable, or are willing to learn to work in new ways with new people... no, they must be wrong. The only way to deal with them is to get rid of magic, so that the social Darwinism these nutters grew up with will give them back the sense of unearned superiority that they always felt they had. 

The thing is, though, had they succeeded, and had magic been purged from Atlanta, there'd always be someone else - someone smarter, someone willing to work harder, and these fundies would find some other outgroup to blame for their failures. It's not hard to look at some of the politics around the world right now and see the same phenomenon. So, credit to Andrews for folding in that unfortunate trend, I just wish it were less inspired by real life.