History Literature / MagicExLibris

** Even Gutenberg!

* [[RealPersonFic Real Person]] SlashFic: In-universe, Gutenberg, under the pen name of Darcy Nacht, wrote fan fiction about {{Shakespeare}} and EltonJohn. Out-of-Universe, this book has a romance between [[spoiler:Ponce de Leon and Gutenberg.]]
* ReferenceOverdosed: It's basically in the premise. In the first few chapters alone, we have {{Twilight}} vampires, StarTrek guns, a [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Babel fish]], the size-changing potions from AliceInWonderland and a lot more.

--->''"Libriomancy was in many ways a lazy man’s magic. There were no wands, no fancy spells, no ancient incantations. No hand-waving or runes. Nothing but the words on the page, the collective belief of the readers, and the libriomancer’s love of the story."''

An urban fantasy series by JimCHines.

** Libriomancer (2012)
** Codex Born (2013)
** Unbound (2015)
** Revisionary (2016)

* TheWorldIsNotReady: The Porters seem to think so in regards to magic. Starting with ''Unbound'', this trope is thoroughly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed.]]

** Isaac is specifically frustrated by how complex operating the [[DoctorWho sonic screwdriver]] is.

* BiggerOnTheInside: Isaac likes to borrow coats from [[DoctorWho the Tenth Doctor's]] novelizations, specifically because of the arbitrarily huge pockets.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Almost every variety of vampire, from [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Stoker's]] to [Literature/{{Twilight}} Meyer's]] exists in this world, because of uninitiated libriomancers accidentally infecting themselves then spreading the curse. The vamps do organize into nests and are quick to leverage their diverse powers.

* LensmanArmsRace: Once libromancy goes public, some parties start pushing for using it to get superweapons for their armies. North Korea flat out publishes a novel which features all sorts of nifty toys they'd like to have and requires all its literate citizens to read it regularly in an attempt to be able to get them.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Almost every variety of vampire, from [[Dracula Stoker's]] to [Twilight Meyer's]] exists in this world, because of uninitiated libriomancers accidentally infecting themselves then spreading the curse. The vamps do organize into nests and are quick to leverage their diverse powers.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: What Gutenberg [[spoiler:has become lately.]]

So far, the series contains three books, with a fourth apparently on the way.

* ChekovsSkill: Isaac's ability to research proves incredibly useful on a number of occasions.

* PublicDomianArtifact: Various types of Excalibur turn up, the Holy Grail is an important background element.

* GargleBlaster: One of the things that libromancers do for fun is extract fictional drinks from books. Isaac one extracted and imbibed the TropeNamer. When he regained coherence two days later, he was in Ontario, dressed in a 19th century Mountie uniform. [[NoodleIncident He's still not sure how he got there or why he was wearing said outfit.]]

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: One reason why Isaac is so against the proposed RAMPART act was that one of the clauses explicitly stated that non-human magicals were not legally considered people under the law. The proposed legal status of human magicals wasn't much better.

Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, someone who can use magic to pull objects out of books. Or rather, he was, because after his magic went out of control during a particularly nasty case of fieldwork, he has been forbidden from using magic at all. Most of those with this talent work for ''Die Zwelf Portenære'', commonly known as The Porters, an organization founded by [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Johannes Gutenberg. You see, when he invented the printing press, he did it to promote Libriomancy, because now people could read the same book in the exact same format]]. The first thing the guy did with it was use TheBible, pull out [[PublicDomainArtifact the Holy Grail]], make himself [[ImmortalityInducer immortal with it]] and then lock the book's magic so that [[{{Hypocrite}} nobody else could do the same]].

** TBA (2016)

* ReferenceOverdosed: It's basically in the premise. In the first few chapters alone, we have {{Twilight}} vampires, StarTrek guns, a [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Babel fish]], the size-changing potions from AliceInWonderland and a lot more.

* FromBadToWorse: ''CodexBorn'' is made of this. The Bad:[[AbusiveParents August Harrison]], grieving for his son, is attacking the Porters with a veritable army, including artificial Wendigos, robot animals and rogue Libriomancers who can use old Chinese books to [[AntiMagic drain magic away]] and later, his very own Dryad. The Worse: [[spoiler:The Dryad is MindRaped by the actual BigBad, then does the same to the ancient, powerful Libriomancers in the Chinese books after pulling them out and then puts up an even better fight than August.]]

* TheWorldIsNotReady: The Porters seem to think so. Starting with ''Unbound'', this trope is thoroughly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed.]]

''"Libriomancy was in many ways a lazy man’s magic. There were no wands, no fancy spells, no ancient incantations. No hand-waving or runes. Nothing but the words on the page, the collective belief of the readers, and the libriomancer’s love of the story."''