Stories where a magocracy overthrew modern civilization?

[Lago PARANOIA]

I'm looking for settings and stories where there used to be a utopian or at least modern (without grimdark) setting where there was suddenly magic that rolled on by and brought monsters and wizards and stuff and overthrew the world order.

So the world is now crushed beneath the heel of an intolerant, aristocratic world order with superpowers and most importantly people fight back using things like democracy, organization, and science.

Can you bad boys hook Lago up? They don't have to be tabletop RPGs; videogames and stories will do.

[Username17]

It was a pretty common trope to have magic stuff set "far in the future" after civilization fell and monsters crushed everything. That was so for Thieve's World, The Dying Earth, and even Greyhawk.

But what you seem to be after is modern humans vs. magic monsters, which is essentially the Buffyverse, Blade, Supernatural, and pretty much the entire Gothic Horror genre.

-Username17

[erik]

Add Shanarra and Brust's Jhereg world to the former-high-tech fantasy world list.

For RPGs *shudder* there is Rifts where high tech world is transformed/decimated by an eruption of magic.

[Orca]

Charles Stross writes some books which are sort of what you describe - The Clan Corporate, The Merchant's War etc.

[norms29]

So the world is now crushed beneath the heel of an intolerant, aristocratic world order with superpowers and most importantly people fight back using things like democracy, organization, and science.

the only thing I know of where that fight is going on, as opposed to happened in the backstory and is over and done with, is this Xbox360 game called legend, or legendary or somthing like that. you play as somekind of special forces guy in a world where magic just happend so the army is fighting monsters. I played the demo and it was pretty good, you fight alot of zombies and the bossfight is a minotaur

[JonSetanta]

Stories eh?

"Bastard!!" manga. That's one of the best visual ones IMO although Fist of the North Star manga is right along with it (a bit of an unusual style though).

Biomega is more of an upheaval-turned-new-world but by the latter chapters the setting and inhabitants definitely even out a sane culture amidst the chaos.

Siggy can't believe you referred to yourself in third person though, that's a little odd.

[Korwin]

There will be Dragons - Sample Chapters
Not 100% what you wanted.
Magic is technology, but only a few have access to that technology.

[baduin]

Mark Geston, The Siege of Wonder - well written but depressing, as all his books. Adjectives such as "elegiac" apply here.

Magic has returned and conquered half the world. Now technology is striking back - and will win. The narrator is the special agent of technology who makes the decisive move in combat; but he clearly regrets the inevitable defeat of magic. As the whole action takes place in the area formerly ruled by technology and now conquered by magic, so you see a lot of results of that.

[MGuy]

Iron Kingdoms has a mix of technology magic and politics depending on whether you have the game during the current war (World Guide) or right before it (Character Guide).

[Fuchs]

Shadowrun has some aspect of that in its setting.