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ATDrake · 11-19-2014, 06:50 PM

For a significant portion of book #2 in Robert J. Sawyer's "Quintaglio Ascension" trilogy, Fossil Hunter (Wikipedia entry), part of the POV narration is done by "The Watcher", an ancient entity that survived the death of the last universe and used its abilities to help spread through the universe and accelerate the evolution of several developing species so that it would have some more intelligent life to talk to.

While it might not be to your taste (the main characters are intelligent dinosaurs in a pre-industrial society which is about to discover scientific enlightenment), they're very good books which were nominated for several genre awards.

Also a bit of an acquired taste, but Steven Brust's "Paarfi"-written fantasy novels in his Dragaera/Vlad Taltos series, which are side projects done in the style of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, especially starting with the "Viscount of Adrilankha" trilogy (Wikipedia entry), often involve extremely powerful sorcerers as partial-POV or prominent supporting characters in a plot that makes full use of their powers and attitudes thereof.

For example, there's Sethra Lavode, who's a near-immortal among a very long-lived people and the oldest and best magic-worker among them and often ends up having to deal with threats at her level, including demons and gods, and Morrolan and Aliera, who are also unusually talented and prone to complicating situations considerably with said talents.

Hope this helps, and welcome to MobileRead!

11-19-2014, 06:50 PM	#3
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	For a significant portion of book #2 in Robert J. Sawyer's "Quintaglio Ascension" trilogy, Fossil Hunter (Wikipedia entry), part of the POV narration is done by "The Watcher", an ancient entity that survived the death of the last universe and used its abilities to help spread through the universe and accelerate the evolution of several developing species so that it would have some more intelligent life to talk to. While it might not be to your taste (the main characters are intelligent dinosaurs in a pre-industrial society which is about to discover scientific enlightenment), they're very good books which were nominated for several genre awards. Also a bit of an acquired taste, but Steven Brust's "Paarfi"-written fantasy novels in his Dragaera/Vlad Taltos series, which are side projects done in the style of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, especially starting with the "Viscount of Adrilankha" trilogy (Wikipedia entry), often involve extremely powerful sorcerers as partial-POV or prominent supporting characters in a plot that makes full use of their powers and attitudes thereof. For example, there's Sethra Lavode, who's a near-immortal among a very long-lived people and the oldest and best magic-worker among them and often ends up having to deal with threats at her level, including demons and gods, and Morrolan and Aliera, who are also unusually talented and prone to complicating situations considerably with said talents. Hope this helps, and welcome to MobileRead!