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Originally Posted by wanderbeald
Hey guys so I'm looking for books with main character similar to for example Dracula : But he doesnt have to be Dracula or vampire at that I just want some main character that is really interesting for example lives for thousands of years or something like that.
Any recs ? 
PS: I didn't really read many books but I have read books by Roger Zelazny already. |
I really enjoyed Mike Resnick's
Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future. Although the (possibly immortal) title character doesn't make an appearance until near the end, his legend grows with every chapter, and he BECOMES interesting in the chase. Also, there are a whole lot of other interesting characters along the way.
Your profile doesn't say where you live--here in the US, we have a wonderful folklore of larger-than-life characters who were never deities like those of ancient religions in long-lived cultures (like the Greeks, Romans, Norse, Japanese, etc.). Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, etc. These are the inspirations for Santiago.
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PROLOGUE
They say his father was a comet and his mother a cosmic wind, that he juggles planets as if they were feathers and wrestles black holes just to work up an appetite. They say he never sleeps, and that his eyes burn brighter than a nova, and that his shout can level mountains.
They call him Santiago.
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Far out on the Galactic Rim, at the very edge of the Outer Frontier, there is a world called Silverblue. It is a water world, with just a handful of islands dotting the placid ocean that covers its surface. If you stand on the very largest island and look into the night sky, you can see almost all of the Milky Way, a huge twinkling river of stars that seems to flow through half the universe.
And if you stand on the western shore of the island during the daytime, with your back to the water, you will see a grass-covered knoll. Atop the knoll are seventeen white crosses, each bearing the name of a good man or woman who thought to colonize this gentle world.
And beneath each name is the same legend, repeated seventeen times:
Killed by Santiago.