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Fiction Books Thread
The tale of Hodja Nasreddin by Leonid Solovyov, translated into English and available on Amazon. Based on folk tales. A story about a man who falls in love, saves people from being sold into slavery, rehabilitates the Thief of Baghdad and never ever surrenders, no matter the odds.
And he said he'd live forever.
And there's a Beast called Cat in it.
I second this one, I read the original, it is great.
The first book was written before author's 8 years bout in GULAG, and the second after. How this influenced the difference between the books is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
Why, it made the second part grow into its full potential. Consider Hodja finding his own greatest belief. I always regretted there are only two books:)
Do you have a link to the translation? In amazon maybe?
Disturber of the Peace http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0034G663C/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1425813458&sr=1-1&keywords=Leonid+Solovyov&dpPl=1&dpID=41748wkTmhL&ref=plSrch&pi=AC_SY200_QL40
And the Enchanted Prince can be found under the same author.
Lammas Night by Katherine Kurtz
Never judge a book from its trashy-ass cover. This one shines inside. The story is about a bunch of magick-users, wiccans, witches, neopagans using magic to keep Hitler from invading Britain in 1940. The point is, the author presents all these occult practices so logically, so believably, such a down-to-earth way that I almost started to doubt if it this kind of stuff may even really work. For a non-fiction work that would be considered a dark art, but for a fiction work, it is just being truly excellent at creating a suspension of disbelief.
Highly recommended for Eliezer as it can give ideas for HPMOR.
Uh, HPMOR is ending in a week or so... :-)
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. Near-future that felt very plausible, I think because it avoids being overly optimistic or overly pessimistic. And the plot threads converged very nicely.
Floornight is an original work in progress by nostalgebraist. It reminds me of Fine Structure in some ways.