Contemporary Fantasy, Trilogy with Two Authors

[mr36]

Hello, I read this book over a decade ago, and can't remember the title or author. I do, however, remember a good amount of the plot:

The book begins with a normal guy who is working at a crummy job for a jerk boss. He has a sister, and one day, there's a "magic apocalypse" where power is lost everywhere. People begin morphing into fantasy creatures (for example, his sister becomes like a fairy and his boss like a dragon/demon). I remember that the main character fights his boss before leaving the city with his sister.

A big point is that crystals are now the source of power and at one point, they discover that by tying in crystals to machinery, they can make it run again. There's also several other characters, and some people in a mining town begin to transform into dwarf-like creatures. The characters also find out that the cause of all this was an experiment done by a group of scientists.

*I actually found this about 5 minutes after posting this! I got lucky, I guess! If anyone is interested, the series is called Magic Time, and the main author is Marc Scott Zicree.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Sounds a lot like the Shadowrun tabletop roleplaying game, too!

[soundofsunlight]

I'm glad you found it! Thanks for the update, I'm definitely interested in reading this one, too!

I haven't heard of Marc Scott Zicree before, but the other author, Barbara Hambly, is a favorite of mine. :)