• zombiepiratefromspace
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      21 year ago

      Well, it’s not quite fantasy, but the Laundry Files novels by Charles Stross merge the concept of “math/algorithms is magic” with lovecraftian horror and satire.

    • @Uniquitous
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      1 year ago

      There’s a series called Magic 2.0 that comes close. You might like it!

    • shmanio
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      11 year ago

      There is something similar in Daemon (or maybe in the sequel Freedom™) in which

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      they enchant an invisibility ring, and the ritual is a sequence of steps involving a physical object. In the end, the ring is “tracked” by the AI so that who wears it is automatically removed from surveillance videos