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ffutures ([personal profile] ffutures) wrote2012-12-05 10:54 pm

Weird...

The TV tropes page on Functional Magic makes no mention of a certain Charles Stross...

[identity profile] nelc.livejournal.com 2012-12-06 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
Let's see... Rules Magic with side orders of Theurgy, Device Magic and Music Magic; used for Necromancy, Mentalism, Black Magic, Blood Magic and Summon Magic?

Rules Magic because it's based on higher mathematics. Theurgy because you can summon inter dimensional entities from minor animators to powerful godlike beings. Device Magic because a computer will do Math. Music Magic because Eric Zahn's violin (music as a form of math?)

Necromancy because zombies everywhere. Blood Magic in that pain and death can be used to power magic. Summon Magic because you can summon beings. Black because of the nature of those beings and the means used to summon them.

Besides the book Charlie's working on now, are there any other examples of Mentalism?

[identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com 2012-12-06 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
A lot of the spells affect the mind, but there usually seems to be a physical component, if only a Laundry warrant card.

[identity profile] nelc.livejournal.com 2012-12-06 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, of course, and geases in general probably count since the devices only automate what can be done with the mind anyway.