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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."
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.
Dana, which one is that? I thought I'd read about all of hers.
Sisters of the Raven/Circle of the Moon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh, The Iron Dragon's Daughter has a very Industrial Revolution but based on magic vibe, if I remember right. Magic acting like technology
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.
Angel with a Sword is my favorite Cherryh book. [link]