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* [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''[[Darkness Series|Darkness]]'' cycle of books has a magic nuke in form of the unnamed product of the Naantali Project, a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Kuusaman]] mega-spell that utilises a link between the [[Functional Magic|laws of similarity and contagion]]. It makes use of animals (or, theoretically, people...) that are grandparents and grandchildren of each other, pushing the elder one forward in time and the younger one back in order to create a massively destructive discharge of sorcerous energy that can be directed anywhere on a map.
* In ''[[The Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'', this is the origin story of the [[Big Bad|Crippled God]]. A cabal of wizards decided that High King Kallor needed to die, and so used their magic to ensnare a god, which they then launched at Kallor's head. The God's impact destroyed an entire ''continent'', devastated the God's very being, and ''failed'' to kill Kallor.
* In ''[[Vincalis the Agitator]]'' by Holly Lisle a magical weapon capable of destroying entire cities is created. In ''[[The Secret Texts]]'' trilogy the after-effects of the prequel are visible on the world map as "wizard circles": very large, very haunted, perfectly spherical craters where the cities of old used to be.
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