There's Ponder Stibbons research in the Discworld, of course.
I love the smell of desperate librarian in the morning.
Snyder ,'Showtime'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
-t - Mar 11, 2021 12:32:38 pm PST #26531 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dana - Mar 11, 2021 1:12:01 pm PST #26532 of 28175
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I tweeted this question but asking here also: are there any stories in which magic exists sort of like technology does IRL and becomes obsolescent due to new and better magic, social changes, etc?
Barbara Hambly has a duology where men's magic stops working and women start having the ability, which seriously begins to shake up the society.
Toddson - Mar 11, 2021 1:21:10 pm PST #26533 of 28175
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Dana, which one is that? I thought I'd read about all of hers.
Dana - Mar 11, 2021 1:54:28 pm PST #26534 of 28175
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Sisters of the Raven/Circle of the Moon.
Toddson - Mar 11, 2021 2:03:18 pm PST #26535 of 28175
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Actually, I'm pretty sure I read the first one ... but it was a while ago. I mostly remember the Darweth books and the Silicon Mage ones.
amyparker - Mar 11, 2021 2:09:27 pm PST #26536 of 28175
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
askye, have you tried Martha Wells' The Murderbot Diaries? I ask because the first four are on sale in hardback and a set is on its way to my house.
My first Cherryh was the Faded Sun trilogy; Cyteen messed with my head, and when I found out exactly how long it was going to take me to run out of books in her Foreigner series I might have shrieked with joy.
- looks at very full bookcase, makes despairing noise* You know, I could have put a bookcase where that bar cabinet is.
-t - Mar 11, 2021 2:27:52 pm PST #26537 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have the most recent Foreigner book just recently added to my TBR. I thought she was done with that ages ago and discovered that, no, I had just missed A WHOLE LOT a few years ago so catching up was fun but apparently I still can't quite keep on top of it. I like that universe so so much
The rest of her work, honestly, there's so much of it I get overwhelmed thinking about branching out. I made some inroads into Alliance-Union, I think.
Volans - Mar 11, 2021 5:19:03 pm PST #26538 of 28175
move out and draw fire
looks at very full bookcase, makes despairing noise*
We just bought 3 new bookcases AND have boxed up 11 boxes of books to go.
Thanks all for the recs...other than Discworld these are new to me.
-t - Mar 11, 2021 8:28:13 pm PST #26539 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, The Iron Dragon's Daughter has a very Industrial Revolution but based on magic vibe, if I remember right. Magic acting like technology
Consuela - Mar 12, 2021 5:43:58 pm PST #26540 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I've read a bunch of Cherryh -- probably my favorite is the Morgaine sequence, it's science fantasy with swords and horses and world-gates. So good.
That said, it's pretty common to start a Cherryh novel and not have any idea what's going on, because usually the characters don't either. How to know you're in a Cherryh novel: you're exhausted, haven't eaten in at least 12 hours, don't trust the people you're with, and the political situation is very complicated. Often your enemies are more sympathetic than your allies are.