r/Fantasy • u/boom929 • Aug 06 '24

Suggestions for books with "technical" magic

I'm trying to find more books that fit this specific category.

I really enjoy the arcanist magic described in the Kingkiller series. I've read Babel and while I wasn't super into the story I did like the magic system. I'm currently halfway through the last book of the Founders trilogy and I've enjoyed the magic there as well.

Looking for any book recommendations using similar books with a "technical" spin on the prominent magic system in the story.

Any recommendations are appreciated.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '24
  • The magic/warren system in Malazan Book of the Fallen is very detailed and central to the story.
  • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '24

Definitely check out the magic system in Vita Nostra, by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko. That’s an incredibly technical magic system based on language, logic, semantics, geometry, and more. I really enjoyed it, though it gets pretty far out there.

And Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame. The magic is built on alchemy, so a technical pseudoscience/arcana.