• FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Charles Stross’ Laundry series is basically this concept set in the present day: magic is a branch of mathematics, which means it can be computed and programmed.

    It is perhaps worth noting at this point the series genre is cosmic horror.

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      6 months ago

      The gender is actually Lovecraftian, spy thriller, science fiction, and workplace humour source.

      It’s seriously the best thing I have read in a decade.

      Edit: genre I guess 😅 (have been learning French lately so sometimes it messes it all up!).

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      This series seems to check more boxes than I thought I had…

      i’m adding it to the top of the list. Except i don’t have a list, so I’m creating a list and adding it to that and therefore it automatically finds itself at the top of it.

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      God help the poor mathematical geniuses who accidentally discover that math. If they’re lucky, they end up working for the Laundry.

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          6 months ago

          So that explains the apparent undead working for them…I only read the first book or three and it’s been a minute. This is the sign for me to go back and finish the series.