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Well I now can take a stab at what you have mostly read in your life and those are a good set of reads and I complement you on being well read and for understanding what those authors were telling in their tails. But that said let me point you to a few of the old masters, Asimov, Clarke, Hienlein, Poul Anderson,Piers Anthony, Alen Dean Foster and Fred Sabehagen,and the Queen herself Anne McCaffrey. Start with any one of their books  and enjoy the ride. In those authors you'll find worlds and people with powers that have no start in magic but forgoten science, lost for thousands of years but still passed down from parent to child. I wish you good luck and a fond read.

and as for the tide pods explnation you have an up hill battle with all the YouTube video's of teen that should know the differance swallowing those pods. while you did give a great explation to why a small child would do that it doesn't explain all the video evidence of teens being unwise.