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Dot Slash Magic by Liz Shipton

Paperback – Angry Robot – Aug 2025 – 438 pages

If a computer could help you wield your own magic… would you use it?

When Seven Jones enrolls at a San Diego community college to appease her parents, the last thing she wants to do is join some stupid club. And she certainly doesn’t expect to walk into an underground magic club. Like, actual freaking wizards.

Seven reluctantly joins the motley crew of magic weirdos and discovers her own power. But she struggles to wield it… until she figures out how to channel her magic through an artificially intelligent computer program she designed.

Unfortunately, there is nothing Seven’s new friends hate more than AI, and when a student mysteriously turns up dead, blame falls on Seven.

With only one person on her side – cute ex-Navy Seal, Logan – Seven fights mythological monsters (Dragon? Check. Kraken? Check) while struggling to convince everyone that her AI has nothing to do with it. But how can she convince her peers when she isn’t totally convinced herself?