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03-27-2008, 13:29
Anything by Tom Holt:
- Expecting Someone Taller (1987), based on the mythology of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
- Who's Afraid of Beowulf? (1988), based on Norse mythology and history
- Flying Dutch (1991), based on the story of the Flying Dutchman
- Ye Gods! (1992), based on elements of Greek mythology including a parody of Heracles
- Overtime (1993), based on the legend of Blondel combined with time travel
- Here Comes the Sun (1993), based loosely on the Celestial Bureaucracy reinterpreted along the lines of the British civil service
- Grailblazers (1994), based on Arthurian romance and the quest for the Holy Grail
- Faust Among Equals (1994), an imagined continuation of the story of Faust
- Odds & Gods (1995), which features assorted pantheons and their adventures after "retirement"
- Djinn Rummy (1995), based on the antics of various bottle-trapped djinn along the lines of a modern Aladdin
- My Hero (1996), in which literary characters can move between fiction and the real world. One of the main characters is OpenDNS
- Paint Your Dragon (1996), based on the legend of St George slaying the dragon
- Open Sesame (1997), based on characters from the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- Wish You Were Here (1998), in which a lake spirit grants four people their heart's desire whether they like it or not
- Only Human (1999), in which four human souls are switched with a machine, a painting, a lemming and a demon
- Snow White and the Seven Samurai (1999), based on fairy tales (Brothers Grimm and others) making a world within a computer simulation
- Valhalla (2000), based on Norse mythology
- Nothing But Blue Skies (2001), which features Chinese dragons
- Falling Sideways (2002)
- Little People (2002), based on faery legends
- Featuring J.W. Wells, the magic firm from The Sorcerer by Gilbert & Sullivan:
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