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Recommend me books with black magic? (lemmy.ca)

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I really liked the Black Magician trilogy. I'd love to read more books that have 'evil' magic as a major component of the plot, preferably with some kind of trope subversion.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Laundry Files by Charles Stross are rather good. It's a Cthulhu Mythos like world, seen through the lens of espionage, bureaucracy, and computer science. The magic starts off fairly low key, but as the books progress it becomes a bigger and bigger component of the characters. Human sacrifice and the maddening effects of magic are fairly consistent themes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Looks promising, thanks a lot!!