Victor Pelevin

Born

in Moscow, RSFSR

November 22, 1962

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Victor Olegovich Pelevin is a Russian fiction writer. His books usually carry the outward conventions of the science fiction genre, but are used to construct involved, multi-layered postmodernist texts, fusing together elements of pop culture and esoteric philosophies. Some critics relate his prose to the New Sincerity and New Realism literary movements.

RU: Виктор Пелевин

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	Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 6,361 ratings — published 1992 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Generation "П". Повести. Рассказы by Victor Pelevin, Виктор Пелевин 4.13 avg rating — 3,413 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 4,191 ratings — published 2004 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire V by Victor Pelevin, Виктор Пелевин 3.89 avg rating — 3,125 ratings — published 2006 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 3,382 ratings — published 1993 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	S. N. U. F. F. by Victor Pelevin, Виктор Пелевин 3.99 avg rating — 2,479 ratings — published 2011 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator) 4.26 avg rating — 4,549 ratings — published 1996 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Yellow Arrow by Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 2,350 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur by Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator) 3.43 avg rating — 2,635 ratings — published 2005 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	iPhuck 10 3.83 avg rating — 1,528 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you'll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you'll turn into a fool yourself.”
― Victor Pelevin, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

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“In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.”
― Victor Pelevin, Homo Zapiens

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“How can non-existence get sick of itself?

Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the replacement of the usual morning waking with something else, something quite impossible even to think about. We don't even have the instrument to do it, because our mind & our world are the same thing.”
― Victor Pelevin, Babylon

tags: death, non-existence, sleep

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Nexus by Ramez Naam

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Light by M. John Harrison

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Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

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Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin

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THE BEST LAID PLANS: Birth of the Starclan by James McAllister

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