Fantasy:
Caroline Stevermer: A College of Magics
Trudy Canavan: The Black Magician triology
Science Fiction:
Several of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Liaden books take place partly in academic circles -- especially the arc starting with Fledgling.
Anne Osterlund: Academy 7
Contemporary romance:
Courtney Milan: Trade Me in part, and even more its sequel Hold Me
...oh, and I almost forgot: Sarah Rees Brennan's In Other Lands. It's really really good. Go and buy it now. It's the story of Elliot Schaefer (from our world, the grumpiest kid in magic land), Serene-Heart-In-The-Chaos-of-Battle (badass elven warrior), and Luke Sunborn (you know, the Sunborns - the golden warrior family, known in all the Borderlands).
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Elliot had “does not interact well with peers” on all his report cards.
If the teachers had been more precise, what they would have said was “does not shut up well around stupid people,” but that was teachers for you. And there were always kids who were stunned when crossed, as if they had expected that life would go their way forever.
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“Hello,” said the beautiful elven maid. “I was just thinking, and I mean no offence, but—how can any fighting force crowded with the softer sex hope to prevail in battle?”
“Huh?” said Elliot brilliantly. “The softer what?”
“I refer to men,” said the elf girl. “Naturally I was aware the Border guard admitted men, and I support men in their endeavor to prove they are equal to women, but their natures are not warlike, are they?”
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“I know about computers,” Luke claimed, which was such a lie that Elliot stared at him openmouthed.
“Really, Sunborn? No, really. All right then. Tell me about computers.”
“Well . . .” Luke said, and looked shifty about the eyes. “They’re boxes . . . but you can write things in them. And read things in them. And there are cats in them who are funny for some reason. They’re like—boxes of infinity. And! You keep the wikipedia in them!”
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