Mary Dell @ 27: nice video! But now I've got "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran!" on the brain.
And "Superdelegatilisticexpialidocious".
Paul A. @ 755: Your first one sounds like Qbpgbe Jub, rvgure Gur Cnegvat Bs Gur Jnlf vs lbh'er gryyvat vg fyvtugyl bhg bs beqre, be Gur Fbhaq Bs Qehzf/Ynfg Bs Gur Gvzr Ybeqf.
Mr. Chris @ 689, 756: Gur Obbx Bs Gur Arj Fha.
Clifton Royston @ 735: Well done, but you and Mary Aileen are still wrong about the last one, so you didn't need to admit to having read Wbanguna Yvivatfgba Frnthyy after all. Would you like another hint? I mentioned that the protagonist is shunned for being different. I'll add that the difference is located in a part (two parts?) of his anatomy.
Okay, it's hint time for my three unsolved entries.
The last survivor of a dead planet enslaves an alien child, but lets him go in exchange for a cat. Someone else wrote another entry for this, which has been solved. The word "planet" was intended to mislead. Father Christmas appears as a character, not very justifiably.
In a techno-paradise full of SEX SEX SEX! and clones, a woman is pursued by a madman she met on a foreign holiday. She takes drugs. He likes whipping himself. It ends badly. I really thought someone would get this quickly, and am now wondering if I've made a factual error. Okay, he doesn't like whipping himself, but he does it anyway. He does like Shakespeare. The book ends with compass points.
Cruelly separated from his parents at an early age, our innocent hero is shunned by almost everybody he meets, simply because he is different. With only his talking animal companion for company, and faced with the necessity of earning a living, he finds that to make his way in an uncaring world he has to learn to believe in himself. For added Marty Stu value, I should have mentioned that this protagonist can fly.
Rymenhild @ 388: V Pncgher Gur Pnfgyr.
Ross Smith @ 650: Good guess, but no.
Lance Weber @ 644: No, and I'm mystified as to how you got that answer.
Lee @ 584: yes.
Xopher @ 631: Whenffvp Cnex.
My first two at #385 are still up for grabs, although at least one of them is a duplicate.
bryan @ 632, is it Xvaq Urnegf naq Pbebargf?
Xopher @ 629: Snyyvat Serr.
Cruelly separated from his parents at an early age, our innocent hero is shunned by almost everybody he meets, simply because he is different. With only his talking animal companion for company, and faced with the necessity of earning a living, he finds that to make his way in an uncaring world he has to learn to believe in himself.
Here's one for my novel-in-progress.
A prophet sends a girl on a quest to save the world, but she gets distracted and shacks up with an old man who lusts after her. He two-times her with his dead ex, flirts with a 15-year-old burglar, and all-but-murders his closest relative, yet still expects her to pick up the pieces when he loses his mind.
Ew.
Carrie @ 513: Surely not Gur Yrsg Unaq Bs Qnexarff!
In a town besieged by a deadly disease and a murderous forest tribe, three strangers - one who's supposed to be dead, one who's supposed to have killed her, and one who was never supposed to have been born - arrive and throw the community into turmoil by uncovering dirty secrets and accusing two young people of incest.
bryan @ 499: Is that Gborezbel ol Fnxv? And 495 is Ferqav Infugne.
bryan @ 482, Eimear Nà Mhéalóid got it first, but I didn't notice until too late.
David Goldfarb @ 432: correct.
Am I right in thinking nobody has answered my second one because it's too easy? On the other hand, the first one is intentionally twisted (and a bit of a cheat, since part of it is something you only learn in a different book).
bryan @ 441: It's Ze Oraa!
The last survivor of a dead planet enslaves an alien child, but lets him go in exchange for a cat.
In a techno-paradise full of SEX SEX SEX! and clones, a woman is pursued by a madman she met on a foreign holiday. She takes drugs. He likes whipping himself. It ends badly.
Granted mythic powers, a college student encounters demons galore, reptile-men, a wolf, a gorilla, snakes that talk in rhyme, religious fundamentalists and nanotechnological goo. (Naq gung'f whfg va gur svefg gjb ibyhzrf, fvapr V unira'g ernq nal shegure.)
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