Novels with a UA tinge

  • ShortChange
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    Ok, so I was thinking last night, I was trying to think of some books that are good reads, and have UA elements. I’ll post the one’s I’ve thought of, and we’ll see what everyone else thinks.

    American Gods- Neil Gaiman- Gods walk the earth
    Neverwhere- Neil Gaiman- An underground society (literally and figuratively) in London made of society’s outcasts
    Invisible Monsters-Chuck Palahnuik- This novel reads like a scenario where all the players hate the others.
    Everything’s Eventual- Title story from King’s collection of short storys, theres too much UA to name here…

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  • Aegypto
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    I think it’s stated in Statosphere that the First and Last Man can create new rituals – or more precisely, he can figure the proper ritual needed to create any effect, short of blasts and major magicks.

    Barring that, some adepts could learn them spontaneously, maybe as a result of magick research and major magick casting.

    Mind you, I think it would be fun having the characters finding an old, dusty grimoire which contains rituals that require modern components – TV sets, mobile phones, whatever – which clearly didn’t exist when the grimoire was written.

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  • Aegypto
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    Oh, fuck. The previous post was supposed to appear on ANOTHER topic, the one about rituals.

    Sorry. I forgot to login, and had to rewrite the entire post, without realizing I was in the wrong window.

    And now, for something actually relevant to THIS topic: Check anything by Tim Powers, particularly his Fisher King trilogy (Last Call, Expiration Date and Earthquake Weather).

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  • walterhisownself
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    Pasquale’s Angel by Paul J. McAuley – not modern-day, but set in the early 1500s with Leonardo di Vinci primarily as an engineer rather than mostly an artist. Necromancy, steam bohemeths, factories, mysteries…

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  • xnbach
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    Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk – Mundane Journalist investigates incidents of crib death and gets sucked into the occult world. Turns out that the deaths are caused by an old African culling rhyme that was taking from a true Grimoire. Pretty much any Palahniuk book is good for inspiration.

    Thom

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  • Jaculi
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    The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. It has been ranked as one of the top 100 english novels of the 20th century (if I remember the cover blurb right), and is definately one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever read. Very UA.

    Complicity (also by Banks) is also highly recomeneded, not occult, but definately has the UA gritty feel.

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  • Xael
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    Galilee & Coldheart Canyon-Clive Barker

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