#cybermage

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The Weapons and Powers of Cybermage: Darklight Awakening (1995)

[abookishidentity]

Books I recently checked out of the library

The Untold Story by Genevieve Cogman- I have to finish this series. I think its the last book? There doesn't seem to be anymore after this one so I have to finish the series. I want to know how it ends.

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman- This book sounds incredibly fun. I just hope the tv show aspect of it isn't annoying. I forget how I found out about this book.

Cybermage by Saad Z. Hossain- I have never read this author before. This book says its funny so that's something to look forward to. It sounds interesting.

A Madness of Angels or The Resurrection of Matthew Swift by Kate Griffin- This is clearly urban fantasy. I mean the main character on the cover of the book has a kickass coat. Main characters of urban fantasy always have to have a kickass coat. Pretty sure this was recommended to me by goodreads.

Money saved: $83.99

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

CyberMage: Darklight Awakening

“Do you have what it takes to be a superhero?!”  (Computer Gaming World #140, Mar. 1996)

[ethelindawrites]

October 5

Fictober, Prompt 5 - "I'm not saying I told you so..."

Original fiction. Turned out to be a continuation of Day 1.

Warnings: nothing in particular, passing mention of past blood sacrifices.

“I’m not saying I told you so…”

“But you told me so,” I groused, sighing as Vivi stepped carefully into what remained of the lab. “It would never have worked if I’d had anyone else with me, especially not another mage.”

“I know,” she said, then whistled as she took in the state of the room. “Hard fight?”

“Yeah,” I admitted, frowning. I’d won, but I’d had to kill her in the end, and still had several bandages on even three days later. It was even stranger because I still didn’t have any idea what her real name was. She had given me an obviously false one when we first met, but every system here was strangely devoid of anything that identified her personally. “The rest of this would have been easier if I’d been able to capture her. I still have no idea what she was trying to do here, or what’s so special about this planet. Several unidentifiable ships have come sniffing around, and given how much monitoring equipment she has set up for tracking exactly that kind of thing, I don’t think it’s new.”

Vivi patted my shoulder and then peered over it at the one screen that had remained intact. “Weird. What did she say she was doing?”

“Planetary rehabilitation, or terraforming, or something like that,” I told her. “Is the surface as uninhabitable as I think it is?”

“Certainly looked that way to me.”

“That’s what I saw on the way down, but then I wasn’t sure if I could trust it. All the instrumentation here indicated the same thing, but I’m still not quite sure what parts of this system I can trust either.”

“We’ll sort it out,” Vivi promised. It was such a relief to have her here. “Where should I get started?”

“See if you can get any of the other interfaces in this room working again? The magical signatures indicate that they didn’t all do the same thing, and I’d like to see if this data makes more sense once I can look at more parts of the system.”

“Sure,” she agreed. “Any urgent life-support things?”

“Fortunately, that equipment was all in another room.”

“Cool. I’ll go grab my tools and be right back.”

I nodded, distracted by the data scrolling by on the screen. All technical, no spells or hints of magic, not at this console. Just a constant stream of geological, climatological and seismic data from what seemed to be all over the planet. The problem was that there was no way Lin (I’d have to use the false name until I could dig up her real one) had enough technical equipment in enough places to be generating this much data. So either it was all false (or at least heavily extrapolated from a smaller number of locations)…or it was being sourced through spells that I couldn’t detect.

Even if it was spell-sourced, it was still an incredible amount of data.

I was no closer to an answer by the time Vivi came back, so I turned that data stream off and went back to digging through the few technical specs for this facility that I could find through this console.

Something weird was going on here, weirder even than a rogue technomage kidnapping random spacers for blood sacrifices. Somehow, I had to figure out what it was.

And soon. I could not explain the weird twisting feeling in my gut that told me that but…we had to figure it out soon.

[autumnalsunrises]

George using his cybermancy! George can control wifi, machines and hack into computer databases.

Right now he is casting a wifi bird guardian spell. This cyber bird will also him to control wifi. This makes it easier for him to gain control of his enemies' secrets. As well as send messages to his guildmates

[amazingstories]

All This And Nikola Tesla, Too: Alma Alexander's Worldweavers Series

All This And Nikola Tesla, Too: Alma Alexander’s Worldweavers Series

Alma Alexander’s Worldweavers series is about the transformation of Thea from a magicless girl in a magic filled world into a powerful woman mage. In the first book, she is shuffled off to Wandless Academy, where students are dubbed “magicdims”. In the fourth book, she comes to the rescue when an alien race steals the source of human magic. Worldweavers turns the Hogwarts trope on its head. And…

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Bluefanguy’s Book Thoughts

Cybermage (Worldweavers #3) by Alma Alexander

Good day all and welcome to another edition of Bluefanguy’s Book Thoughts! Today’s post is on Cybermage by Alma Alexander. It is the third and final installment in the Worldweavers series. Previous posts for the books include Gift of the Unmage and Spellspam.

Thea Winthrop’s friends have suddenly become more distant. It seems as though they all have other priorities though her sudden realization that she is an Elemental Mage, individuals with rare magical abilities, adds to her changing life. To that end, her newly revealed ability may be the key to unlocking a special cube left by the only quad-elemental mage Nikola Tesla. While unlocking the power within is a task Thea agrees with she realizes the potential danger of leaving the cube in the hands of Federal Bureau of Magic (FBM) including how the Alphiri and the trickster Corey would do anything it takes to gain the cube and the desired magic is possesses, including isolating the power within, something Thea is all too familiar with.

Thea learning her true power is something I really enjoyed about this book and as a whole I feel it ends the series well. My main issue with the novel is the lack of explanation towards Thea’s friends sudden distance from her, specifically Ben who is moody and no proper explanation is ever given or how her friend Tess supposedly has a boyfriend but that point is never touched on again. I like how her power grows and though readers are aware from the first book her power is great though unique, an explanation is given as to why her power was untraceable, at least for the in-novel universe. Added conflict for her include being seen as a tool for the FBM’s goals and understanding her actions leading to being unable to hide her power which would make her Double Seventh status to fruition and make her a target of the Alphiri.

Overall, I’m satisfied with this novel and the series as a whole. Lovers of urban fantasy, techno magic, and a twist on a historical figure may just find something to love within this series.

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Bluefanguy, out.

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Cyber Mage

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