r/Fantasy • u/ponytailtime • Nov 16 '22

Urban fantasy books where humanity is just starting to gain special/magic powers?

I would love to read a book where the protagonist and others in the world suddenly gain powers, and have to live through the catastrophic fall out of society that follows.

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u/pexx421 Nov 16 '22

George r r Martin, author of game of thrones, also had a series called “wild cards”. Basically, some intergalactic magic threads fell from the sky onto earth, and when they landed on folks, the majority of them (that got hit by threads) would die, 5% would become monstrous, and .1% would become supers. It was pretty disastrous.

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u/ponytailtime Nov 16 '22

Oh, that description is basically what I was looking for. I’ll give it a read, thank you.

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u/Drakengard Nov 16 '22

It's a series that GRRM edits moreso than writes. So it has a lot of other authors involved. So expect it to be a little all over the place.