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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Recommendation.A short book, so if you don't like it it's not too much of your life wasted.
"The Magic Goes Away", by Larry Niven. He normally writes hard sf, but this is fantasy - except it's written like hard sf. It's great. Basic idea: it's set in our world, more or less, only about 12,000 years ago. Magic works... but it only works where there's mana, and the mana is running out. Gods are dying, animals that are part magical are going extinct, Atlantis has sunk because it depended on magic to keep the water out, and magicians' spells are stopping working. But the Warlock and some of his magic-using buddies have a plan to save the world...
Try it.
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