Questions tagged [magic]
For questions referring to powers obtained by supernatural or spiritual means outside of science or technology. Can also be used to signify that the question contains magical elements when asking in relation to an identification question: [story-identification], [episode-identification], [character-identification] and [object-identification].
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Novel told from the point of view of an Orc warrior in a magic world
I did not read the book, only read the first few pages or maybe a chapter. I think it came out in the last 5-10 years
I believe it was about Orcs, but might have been goblins or trolls.
A minor Orc ...
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Book - Female Wizard in a more modern day setting
I'm looking to find the name of a book I read quite a while ago. It seemed to be part of a series because I seem to remember it ending on a cliffhanger.
I really can't remember much about it other ...
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SF Book about a princess from a magic world
I am trying to find a book I read many, many years ago.
The book starts with a princess, from a world with magic, coming through a rift into our world, without magic. She discovers, however, that one ...
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I'm looking for a book (I think?) with a perfectionist spellcasting girl, that is masochistic
I'm looking for a book with a spellcasting girl who sets goals for herself, and when she can't do it, she increases her goal for the next day.
The goals were like, "Cast this spell 100 times"...
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Trying to identify a film with a calligraphic style magic
I recall there's a fictional work (possibly a TV series or a movie or film. The cinematographic style seemed to be films before the 90s (most likely range is 1960-1999), i.e. resembling the prop based ...
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Book with female protagonist, magical academy, magic liquid / essence, ends in war
Read this series (or may have been a massive novel, not sure) at least 15 years ago (cant recall when it was published but I dont think it was published in 2008, I think it was much older but that's ...
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Short story about old man and boy shamans in conquistador era?
Okay, I thought this was a Ray Bradbury but I haven’t been able to find it again. In this short story, and old man and little boy are in a jungle overlooking a beach. The old man is teaching the ...
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What is the earliest instance of magic smelling like ozone?
Aside from being set in pretty cynical universes, both Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher saga and Sandy Mitchell's Ciaphas Cain stories don't have a lot in common, aside from one thing that's nearly ...
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Novella about meat creatures from another dimension that are released by Nazi magic
I can remember quite a bit about this novella, but I can't find it again and it's driving me nuts.
Pretty sure it was published before 2000, but I am not sure; I know a man wrote it.
Two college kids ...
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Fantasy series about magic and intelligent dinosaurs
Recently, I remembered this book series I read as a kid, maybe 13 or 14 years ago. It wasn’t a children's books, maybe more like young-adult. I found a similar post on this forum from about 4 years ...
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Children's fantasy book about a girl traveling to another world
I’ve been searching for this children’s book for literally over 25 years. I was probably about 10 years old when I visited the Orem Library (Utah) 1993 ish. I include the place on the off chance it ...
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The diving board and the black window
This is a short story, not a novel.
I read this story in a collection in possibly 1959, but I do not know when this book was published. It had a great effect on me. I cannot remember the writer's ...
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Book about a tribal village that falls under the influence of a malevolent priest
The book I'm searching for is about a young woman who lives in a village that is part of a larger tribe. She is part of a tribal police/army type-force, which I believe is made up of the village's ...
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Fantasy book about a girl whose use of both men's and women's magic makes her an outcast
Men do one kind of magic, women do another. The magic for one is sky based, the other is earth based. The main character (a girl) ends up breaking down the barrier to show that blending the types of ...
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What counts as an "emotion" that can be Soothed or Rioted?
There are many examples in all of the Mistborn novels of Allomancers using brass and zinc to Soothe and Riot emotions. Most of the time, these emotions are clearly definable as emotions: hope, anger, ...
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Fantasy series from the 80s or nineties
I am trying to remember a series of books, about three I believe, I read at least 20 years ago about a magic school / monastery.
A series of magical attacks take place, where the blame is placed on a ...
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1990s Fantasy fiction involving magic runes?
This is killing me. When I was young I remember reading this book:
female heroine
young adult fantasy fiction
need to draw? runes in the air or tattoo them to do certain spells
opening scene young ...
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Book about a girl who found a portal in the woods to a violent and ruthless fairy world
From what I remember this girl found a portal in the woods to a fairy world but the fairies went more along with Grimm tales, they were violent and ruthless. A lot of people are trying to kidnap her ...
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Fantasy book series about teenage kids with magical abilities travelling across a land to meet and defeat an evil entity
I’m trying to remember the title of a book series I started reading in the late '90s/very early 2000s. I’d read the first one or two of the four(?) in the series.
From what I can remember, teenage ...
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Fantasy book about a besieged city
I'm looking for a book I've read in the late nineties, though I don't think it was new at that time.
It's fantasy book (orcs, sorcerers, etc.) chronicling the siege of a city. It starts when the city ...
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Looking for fantasy book about girl with hidden powers
I think I read the book on Wattpad once, but can't remember the title. It is about a magical world with a strong social hierarchy: the ones with magic at the top, the ones without at the bottom. The ...
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Book about girl who has magic powers to beat demons
When I was a teenager I read a book about a girl who lived in a world where there was magic, but magic was not all powerful. People could do limited tricks on their own, but for great feats a circle ...
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Fantasy novel about an artist who can bring paintings to life
I am looking for a novel about a painter who does fantasy cover art for book. It is set in modern day. NOT a high fantasy style. He discovers that he can bring his paintings to life, enter the worlds ...
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Book about man jumping between dimensions and selling things from his dimension that are more valuable in the other
I remember reading this a few years ago. A man who realizes he can teleport to another dimension where women outnumber men, silver is more valuable than gold, magnets and steel increase latent magical ...
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Looking for an apocalyptic fantasy book
I think it was a "magic returns" type of story.
There was the revival of an aztec/mayan sorcerer. He and an underling ate a prostitutes heart for power.
There was a woman fighting them, who had been ...
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Book about a female with animal tattoos that can move around on her body
I think I read this book in the mid to late 2000s.
The main character is female with tattoos that can move around on her body.
She can even take them off and they become small figurines until she puts ...
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Book series about a magic family with magic parents and kids having adventures learning magic
Looking for a middle-grade fantasy book series (possibly three or four) about a magic family. Think there was a brother and 2 sisters. One sister was younger than the other two. Maybe there were 4 ...
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YA series of books about sentient dinosaurs in the Middle Ages
I'm looking for this series of books, teen to adult rating. It was about sentient dinosaurs that had evolved and changed, and lived in a medieval kingdom time.
It was based around three protagonists,...
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Fantasy novel. Boy's father is killed by bear, taken in by father-figure in charge of King's army
The book(s) I'm looking for is a young adult book and part of a series about a boy/young man who leaves his grandparents house to go off to school. The book was set in a different world (similar to ...
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Fantasy about three magical descendants/ children with different powers fighting with each other
Looking to find which book or series of books that center around three descendants of some powerful person, who take on human bodies and each have their special respective powers. The characters are ...
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Trying to find the title of a fantasy book where the main character has living hair?
I'm trying to find the title of a fantasy book from the 90s.
This is what I remember seeing on the cover: she has wild white hair kind of changing into lighting and a shadow friend
What I remember:
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Fantasy book prince runs away to find his mother, encounters maid with cobwebs under her eyelids
I'm looking for a book I read years ago.
A boy or prince is in search for his mother. He is neither strong nor brave, so runs away. His older male cousin joins him.
They encounter a young maiden who ...
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Young adult fantasy book series about the 13th child of a blacksmith
I read these books a couple of decades ago. Not sure when they were published, but I thought they were recent then. I got through three books, but am not sure how many more there were.
In the story, a ...
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Norse-based fantasy show where protagonist can use every ability?
I'm looking for an animated series (100% not an anime) taking place in a fantasy world that might have had a Nordic aesthetic, where everyone had a unique superpower. (i.e. wings, ice manipulation, ...
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YA sci-fi book about a servant family living on the estate of a noble family with a magical bloodline
I hope one you lovely people might be able to help me remember a book title I’ve forgotten, as I really want to re-read it. I read it a few years ago and was sure I read it on Kindle Unlimited but can’...
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Novel where a young man uses folding magic, and releases an ancient prisoner
Full length novel, post-2010, less than 2018.
Coming of age tale about a young man who was raised in a backwater or rural province and taught sorcery. Since he was in a remote location, the person ...
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Special series of story-telling segments, as told by actors; one had a magical whale who befriended a girl
I'm not sure of the series in question, or if it was a "special" of sorts; it was played, on tap, in class during the 1980s as part of story time. The screen focused on actors. (For some reason I'm ...
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Fantasy series about powerful mages outside of space/time and King stranded on a water world
I read a series of books which I don't believe is the Castle Perilous series as those came out at the end of the 80's and I think I read this other series in the mid 80's.
It involved a castle and it ...
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1980s (possibly) Cartoon movie, Oil workers find a magic mask when drilling for oil
I am looking for a movie I saw when I was a kid, all I can remember is some oil workers drilling for oil then an old magic mask causing an earthquake and rising out of the ground, the next part I ...
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Book where girl fights a evil sorcerer uncle who killed her father the king
I read a book review over 10 years ago; maybe 2003 -2004. I found it interesting and wanted to read the book but could not remember its name.
The story was about a princess whose uncle killed her ...
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Manga or manhwa about a girl who is transmigrated into a novel as the sick sister of one of the male leads and marries an assassin
The manga or manhwa is about a girl who transmigrated into a novel as the sick sister (I think her hair is green or blue) of one of the male leads or he is a very important character in the novel... ...
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Fantasy novel about a young guy and girl who find some sort of magic world
I remember reading this book so vividly but I have never been able to find it!!
The main characters are teenage-young adult, and they discover this parallel fantasy world. I think there is something ...
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1990s or so fantasy book where a common girl falls in love with a prince and discovers she has magical gifts
I vaguely remember it being written by a female Australian author and I believe it was published in the later 1990s or so. It was a trade paperback.
It starts with a young woman working in her family’...
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What are the differences in Leetha's powers, and Spawns personal powers?
Al Simmons, aka the most well regarded and arguably powerful Hell Spawn of modern/current Earth, was bonded to the symbiotic suit, K-7 Leetha, back in the very first issue. This entity/suit is a ...
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Manga about a girl who fights in dreams?
I have this manga I read once a long time ago. It seemed to be about a girl and her friends who had different lives in their dreams, and fought evil or something in them, I think. They had magic ...
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What is the first instance of a Seeing Stone or Magic Mirror with multiple simultaneous connections?
What is the first science fiction/fantasy world that used a seeing stone or magic mirror in a way where a message/connection is duplicated across multiple endpoints at the same time?
I know the Lord ...
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Book about magic less world a boy who still has magic in him
Looking for a book about a boy who finds out he has magic in him. I must have read it some time between 2007-2010. Starts off with his home being destroyed by not so nice people, he escapes and meets ...
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Looking for sci-fi series spells put onto paper or stone
Looking for sci-fi series spells put onto paper or stone. I know the beginning of the first book the son, who is the main character, mother and father are running from some bad people. The father ...
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Trying to find a novel/story I read online a few years ago
So I'm trying to remember a story I read some years ago, can't remember how long ago. I am fairly certain the Main Characters name is Mikhail(or so minor spelling variation on it), who is born into a ...
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Female Protagonist, Fantasy, Metal Affixed to arms
I am trying to find a book I read in the late 80s, possibly early 90s.
It is a fantasy novel, although there is a bit of a post-apocalyptic feel to it. It was set in a desert. The main character is a ...
