Victor Pelevin
sci-fi, drugs, buddhism, dark humor, fantasy, everything hi-grade and politically incorrect best possible way!
i've been reading all his works in original russian since beginning of this century, not my native language, but you could't live without it in Soviet Union, so i speak it since 5 years age freely, and it has been incredible luck actually. can't recommend his books enough. zlibrary offers everything that is translated from russian. the translations are not bad, but please note that much of wordplays are impossible to translate, so some fun will be missed, but it doesn't affect the stories in general. some elements could be hard to understand without the experience of living in late USSR and the enthropy of 90s in Postsovietia. i hope more of his works will be translated soon.
please not that Babylon and Homo Zapiens is the same book, originally named Generation P. this and one of his other most ''pop'' book Empire V are made into movies. first one years ago, will post it in movies thread soon. the latter is finished and coming in nearest months hopefully.
my absolute favorite is Buddhas Little Finger, originally Chapaev and the Void, red it 4x and going 5th soon. it has been made into movie as well , but please do not watch it, there are maybe 10 minutes vaguely resembling the book, everything else is bad and absolutely miserably unconnected with original story.
it is better to start with older works - Omon Ra, Life of Insects.
for those who wants to jump straight into sex drugs and violence - S.N.U.F.F. (written years before war in Ukraine, prophetically dealing with the topic)
https://pb1lib.org/s/pelevin/?languages%5B0%5D=english
