Now, here's the thing. There are a few big-name authors who does it well, but in weird places. This shows up a lot in Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga -- i

Now, here's the thing. There are a few big-name authors who does it well, but in weird places. This shows up a lot in Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga -- it's sci fi. Brent Weeks books all have this, and he does a great job with the martial arts in there too. These would be the Shadow Angel trilogy and the Lightbringer series. The books Brandon Sanderson after he ghost-wrote the end of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series have some of these aspects. Robert Jordan is pretty good about this in some of the places.