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Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? by throw0101a on Thursday December 24, 2020 @11:42AM (#25529010)
Brian Sanderson (and others) have written plenty of magic-filled books with more interesting endings. If you want a 'hard magic' system, the one in the Mistborn series is pretty interesting (ingesting and 'burning' particular metals for particular abilities):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistborn

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson

'Booktuber' Merphy Napier recently did two videos on magic systems in fantasy novels:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMQk4ltJa0

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd6f3tAOUHk

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Re:Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype? by musingsole on Thursday December 24, 2020 @11:52AM (#25529096)
Brandon Sanderson*

Sanderson has lectures on a system of rules for magic in books to balance their coolness against deus ex machina: https://stormlightarchive.fandom.com/wiki/Sanderson%27s_Laws...

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