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- The Anubis Gates
series3 books1983
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The Anubis Gates is a single time-travel fantasy novel by Tim Powers, following a present-day academic who takes part in a time-travel experiment and ends up stranded in early nineteenth-century London. It won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1983 and the Science Fiction Chronicle Award the following year.
- The Prestige
Christopher Prieststandalone novel1995
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A magician called Borden (at least in private) writes his own version of his life as a magician. There's a lot of focus on a trick, where he seems to move across any width of stage in an instant, and on a feud with another magician, Angier. The account includes passages, where he can't decide what exactly to write, arguing with himself. 3 generations later a Borden (at least biologically) learns about his ancestor. He's also convinced, he somehow has a twin brother, who's happy about this development.
- The Night Circus
Erin Morgensternstandalone novel2011
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The Night Circus is a 2011 speculative fiction novel by Erin Morgenstern. It was originally written for the annual writing competition National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) over the span of three competitions. The novel has a nonlinear narrative written from multiple viewpoints.
- The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
series5 books2011
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street follows Thaniel Steepleton, a telegraph clerk in Victorian London who receives a mysterious pocket watch that later saves his life, leading him to the reclusive watchmaker who made it and a mystery involving clairvoyance and a bombing plot. Natasha Pulley's series continues with The Bedlam Stacks and The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, following related characters through further historical-fantasy settings.
- Gemma Doyle
series4 books2003
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The Gemma Doyle Trilogy is a trilogy of fantasy novels by American writer Libba Bray. They are told from the perspective of Gemma Doyle, a girl in the late nineteenth century. The Gemma Doyle Trilogy consists of three books: A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing.
- Newbury & Hobbes Investigations
series23 books2008
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George Mann's steampunk series follows Sir Maurice Newbury, an occult investigator working for the crown in an alternate, more mechanized Victorian Britain, and his assistant Veronica Hobbes, as they take on cases blending supernatural threats with the era's mechanical marvels. The Affinity Bridge, the opening novel, entangles them with a crashed automaton airship and a spreading plague of the reanimated; later books deepen Newbury's struggle with addiction and Veronica's search for her institutionalized sister. It combines detective procedural with alternate-history steampunk London.
- Lord Darcy
series15 books1964
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Lord Darcy centers on Randall Garrett's investigator of the same name, a detective working an alternate history where functional magic stands in for our world's technology. Working alongside his forensic-sorcerer partner, Darcy solves closed-room mysteries and political crimes across a run of short stories and novels. After Garrett's death, Michael Kurland continued the character with further Lord Darcy novels.
- All Souls
series5 books2011
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A Discovery of Witches is a 2011 historical-fantasy novel and the debut novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness. It follows Diana Bishop, a history of science professor at Yale University, as she embraces her magical blood after finding a long-thought-lost manuscript and engages in a forbidden romance with a charming vampire, Matthew Clairmont.
