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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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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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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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If they’re really lucky, they’ll end up working for the Laundry only once. Residual Human Resources is a bad way to go out.
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