I'm looking for a good novel about a modern world having to deal with the sudden discovery of magic. The attempts to make sense of it, the wars over its sources and especially the hybrid technology.
Could you point me in the general direction of such a novel?
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Anonymous2007-08-02 6:49 ID:SMHrYbDb
Hell's Gate by David Weber & Linda Evans. Here is a copy and paste there little summery of the book:
===In the almost two centuries since the discovery of the first inter-universal portal, Arcana has explored scores of other worlds . . . all of them duplicates of their own. Multiple Earths, virgin planets with a twist, because the "explorers" already know where to find all of their vast, untapped natural resources. Worlds beyond worlds, effectively infinite living space and mineral wealth.
And in all that time, they have never encountered another intelligent species. No cities, no vast empires, no civilizations and no equivalent of their own dragons, gryphons, spells, and wizards.
But all of that is about to change. It seems there is intelligent life elsewhere in the multiverse. Other human intelligent life, with terrifying new weapons and powers of the mind . . . and wizards who go by the strange title of "scientist." ===
You two groups/races of people. One is at about a 1930's tech level. They just started using trains and the steam engine en mass. but a small number of "group/race one" people are physic. But the physic powers are very limited. The foundation of there society is science, the physic powers are more like gap fillers.
Group/race two is all about magic. These people can't figure out anything more complex then a door, or an bow and arrow if it isn't being powered but magic. but with magic they are able to breed super horse and other animals; like dragons. So they are able to do some pretty cool stuff with magic. Yes, they even made magic MWD's. But those would outlawed/banned/taboo 1000's of years before the plot of the book takes place.
So far its a two parter. with "Hell Hath No Fury" being book 2.
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Anonymous2007-08-02 18:40 ID:5z0wPYmk
Anything Shadowrun related... you didn't say it had to be literary.