Before it goes missing, it enables Arusu to use magic without using a fairy's body part. Tweeny Witches: The True Book of Spells is the only book to list every spell a witch can use, as well as one of the items the warlocks need to cast dark magic.Slayers: Lina Inverse learns the Ragna Blade spell from a Spell Book, but she learns it permanently.The Thousand Master had a home-made Spell Book, as he was atrocious at remembering spells and would wade into battle with crib notes.Magical Library that it's located in also has many ancient techniques and spells in the lower reaches. The book of Melusedek which is said to be an Amplifier Artifact capable of making mages unstoppable and muggles smarter magical text of the highest level.Reinforce Eins: I'm the happiest magical tome in the world. Do not confuse with Throw the Book at Them, where the book is a weapon in and of itself instead of just a focus (though they can and do overlap). Compare and contrast Limited-Use Magical Device, a magical item that only has a limited amount of uses before needing to recharge or becoming completely unusable. Writing itself was considered a magic art.
Older Than Dirt, as the ancient Egyptians thought magic could be performed by reading and performing specific incantations, and used collections of written spells in various forms. The Tome of Eldritch Lore is also a spell book but has added implications of doom!. Related to, but distinct from the Great Big Book of Everything which is an infinite source of information. Also known as a Book of Shadows, they are usually more like commonplace books with collections of incantations, calendars, diagrams, recipes, journal entries, and notes on whether this or that spell worked. But I’ve read so much dark and bleak fantasy lately, and it makes me want to shake the whole genre and say, “Don’t you remember what it was like when you first started reading this stuff? When you sat there imagining how amazing it would be to have superpowers or use the force or fly or whatever?” I love that sense of wonder, and if I could have real magic in my life, I’d be all over that.People who practice Witchcraft call these things grimoires or Black Books. One of the core themes I was thinking about as I worked on the book is that magic is pretty darn awesome. I’d love to be able to do what Isaac does. It’s one thing to invent a nuclear weapon it’s another to recognize that anyone, anywhere, could wake up with the ability to set off a magical nuke. While only a select few have magical abilities in his world, there are no limitations on who could develop those abilities. One of the things Isaac struggles with is whether some knowledge is too dangerous and should be suppressed. Is that censorship? That’s a great question. Authors have come up with all sorts of ways to mess with humanity or wipe out the planet, and I’d prefer to keep most of those locked away. Michael Crichton’s Prey has hostile nanobots. Isn’t that censorship?ĭavid Brin’s Earth has a pinpoint black hole that falls into the Earth and starts devouring it from the inside. In Isaac’s world, some books are “locked” so libriomancers can’t use them. He and Smudge were sent to stop a madman from conquering a science fiction convention, which gave me plenty of opportunities to indulge my geekier side. In that original story, the libriomancer was much older and burnt out from his responsibilities. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen. Every relationship has conflict and problems, and while I don’t have everything fully planned, I think it’s safe to say that it will take time for them to fully sort things out after the events of the first book.Īn editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I wanted to change up the dynamics of that triangle and explore something that went beyond splitting readers into “Team Isaac” and “Team Other-Person-Who-Will-Remain-Nameless-Because-Spoilers!” Isaac’s relationship with Lena is something I definitely want to explore over the course of the series. Isaac is heterosexual primarily so I could play with the urban fantasy trope of the love triangle. Now I can never again say that nobody has asked me that question.
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