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If anyone is doing some holiday shopping and wants to "school some special snowflakes in the not-so-liberal art of war"
This is quite a wild fan fic you have wrote.
It's like I'm reading an excerpt from https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077X12YNG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
This is from the preface of one of those "novels". I kid you not.
America’s growing political and cultural divisions have finally split the United States apart. Now, as the former blue states begin to collapse under the dead weight of their politically correct tyranny, a lethal operative haunted by his violent past undertakes one last mission to infiltrate and take out his target in the nightmarish city of Los Angeles, deep in the heart of the People’s Republic of North America.
“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.”
An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.
As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city’s poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.
Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart.
Published a decade ago. The author has an extensive IT background. The basic premise was plausible then, imagine how much further we’ve advanced since. Kill Decision https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0073XV2W2/
Shantaram by y Gregory David Roberts. This not a Peace Corps book but it is a book about a western person living at the same level of a poor Indian community, while serving to help. David Gregory Roberts calls “Shantaram” a novel, but it is strongly autobiographical, concentrating on his life in Bombay from 1981 to 1987. One of the best books I've every read.
You are looking for the Ballentine/Del Rey illustrated editions of Robert E Howard's stories - Conan, Solomon Kane, etc. Fantastic traditional illustrations by Gary Gianni and Mark Schultz.
If you're talking about Robert E. Howard's original stories, then this volume is where you should begin:
"The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian"The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
Oh man, this book looks amazing. It appears to be a thriller written by a machine learning bot fed Fox News stories.
I have a non litrpg recommendation. It's a collection of short stories in which every story has either a fantasy or science fiction element and takes place in the wild frontier.
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mans-Hand-Anthology-Weird-ebook/dp/B00GVZJV80/
Dead Man's Hand: An anthology of the Weird West
HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD!
From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards, or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town. Here are twenty-three original tales—stories of the Old West infused with elements of the fantastic—produced specifically for this volume by many of today’s finest writers.
Considering that James Patterson and President Clinton wrote a book about the president being MIA (but for a completely different reason), I wouldn’t put it past Trump to attempt it.
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I've noticed a lot of these people view the world as just one big hierarchy where there has to be someone holding power over another at all times. When they hear someone say they don't like the country and want to make it better for minorities, women, LGBT people, etc. they think it means those people want to take control of the top spot on the hierarchy, which means straight white cis dudes with old fashioned values get kicked to the bottom.
From personal experience on a smaller scale, I see this a lot in the pro writing community. There's always complaining that publishers wanting diverse casts and diverse authors means straight white guys have no chance to tell their stories, but this unironic right wing power fantasy got published by an actual company and made money. POC and LGBT stories/authors being picked up more often doesn't mean there aren't any opportunities for everyone else. It just means they lost their unfair advantage now that all stories are being told. That's a pretty good metaphor for the liberal view of equality I guess.
Conan is really the best of what you are looking for, but definitely involves old school racism.
...maybe? ��
Del Rey has a trio of books that comprise just about every one of Howard's original Conan stories, plus or minus some trunk stuff. A great deal of care was taken with these to consult Howard experts and use the best available texts, so they're quality.
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Conan-Cimmerian-Barbarian-Book-ebook/dp/B000FBJE24
Between Del Rey and the Robert E. Howard Foundation, nearly every word Howard ever wrote is either published or in the process of being published. It's a vast undertaking, since the dude wrote so much in the thirty years of his life. Del Rey also has a couple of best of volumes that sample broadly from almost everything he did, so if you like the Conan stuff and want to see what else of his you might like, check those out.
There are also loads of free audiobook versions of varying quality.
Additionally, if you're ever anywhere in the vicinity of Abilene, TX, you're not far from Howard Country. It's worth a trip to Cross Plains to go see the Howard House, now with added storm cellar!
I think a lot of TS listeners might enjoy Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. If you dig Chris’s anecdotes about traveling in India, this book will get under your skin.
The link below goes through Chris’s Amazon portal:
This article is pure gold
And the columnist's novels look like great reads as well. Looks like I will be checking it out
Is this the same collection? You can buy the Kindle and Audiobook versions together for $15 which is pretty good for me now that I've cancelled my Audible subscription.
Dead Man's Hand has a similar story in it, just not in roguelike mechanics. I don't want to post spoilers, but some people have a deck of cards that give them powers. It's a good book that's basically a compilation of short or novella length western stories with a Lovecraft feel to them. There are several stories, skinwalkers, deals with the devil, etc.
http://smile.amazon.com/Dead-Mans-Hand-Anthology-Weird-ebook/dp/B00GVZJV80/ref=sr_1_1
Great anthology, you can find all sorts of authors & series from it. The audible audiobook is great too.
Edit:Changed to Amazon smile link.
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. A great story too, but I'm amazed at his style and how effortless it is. He's one of the few authors that, as another writer, I'm envious of.