Cayenne comments on Mundane Magic - Less Wrong

102 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 October 2008 04:00PM

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Comment author: Swimmer963 30 April 2011 09:55:42PM 0 points [-]

Does this genre have a name, or other googleable traits?

Or examples of stories in this genre? That would be helpful too.

Comment author: Cayenne 30 April 2011 10:54:37PM * 3 points [-]

Alan Dean Foster has written at least one full-length novel trilogy in this genre.

TVTropes has a trope 'Humans Are Bastards' which might overlap a bit.

This is pretty difficult to search for.

Edit - There's a link to the 'Humans Are Cthulhu' trope that may be a better fit.

Edit - please disregard this post

Comment author: David_Gerard 30 April 2011 11:21:04PM * 0 points [-]

Yeah, the description of "the ultimate power" is basically humans as Cthulhu.