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Tranquilium (Транквилиум) is a 1996 Speculative Fiction (see immediately below) novel by Russian writer Andrey Lazarchuk.The genre is difficult to define beyond Speculative Fiction. It has elements of historical fiction and political thriller and conspiracy literature; it eventually verges on being a Cosmic Horror Story; and it may be considered with equal validity as science fiction with Imported Alien Phlebotinum or as fantasy with Magic A Is Magic A. The setting is, at the first glance, a generally Earth-like Another Dimension (the eponymous Tranquilium) that is somehow connected with a ruined shadow world and through it with our Earth; in fact it's revealed rather quickly that Tranquilium was originally settled by colonists from Earth, which partly explains why the two nations that share much of the known world — Merryland and Palladia — are so similar to Victorian Britain/America and Imperial Russia, respectively. It is generally assumed in Tranquilium that all contact with the Old World was lost long ago; in truth some people from the Old World still can and do cross over to Tranquilium, for various purposes — and some other people really don't want them to, for a variety of reasons (but mostly because they want to take over), setting up the initial conflict, which gets much more convoluted as the plot develops.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The story begins in 1983 in the coastal Merryland town of Port Elizabeth. Gleb Marin, the 18-year-old son of a famous Palladian cartographer and public figure who recently died under mysterious circumstances, arrives to the town after having successfully graduated from an elite school and goes to the beach to think his situation over, only to end up rescuing Captain-Inspector Cyrus Campbell, Lord Stableford, who had almost drowned after being thrown overboard by mutineers on a ship. This rescue gets him noticed by Colonel Williams, a resident Reasonable Authority Figure who apparently knew his father and who advises Gleb to visit the man he saved. Becoming a guest at the Stableford manor, Gleb gets acquainted with Lord Stableford's Palladian wife, Lady Svetlana, and her friend Olive Nolan.Meanwhile, the original mutiny ends up turning into a full-blown rebellion apparently orchestrated by a strange and dangerous group known only as the "cayjibbers", the town is engulfed by combat and the lives of all the main characters repeatedly come into danger. Parallel to this it is revealed that Gleb can go into the aforementioned shadow world which somehow corresponds to Tranquilium, an ability he uses to help the militia combat the rebels; while in the shadow world, he encounters a strange man in the otherwise unpopulated dimension, equipped with hi-tech (read: 1980s Earth) weapons. Upon surviving the uprising, Gleb, Cyrus, Svetlana and Olive decide that their meeting was preordained by fate, and forge a special bond, swearing to meet again under similar circumstances; they are later joined in this by Colonel Williams, who also brings Gleb into the already mentioned main conflict in the setting, a secret war between the Forbidders based in Palladia and Merryland and the KGB, which apparently seeks to conquer the nations of Tranquilium for the Soviet Union and/or bring them the benefits of modern civilisation, whether they like it or not. Gleb's apparently unique ability - slipping effortlessly into the shadow world — and his father's legacy make him an obvious target in this war, and so he is forced to go into hiding to evade KGB agents and their allies, while also having a love affair with Svetlana.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })And that's just the beginning of the first part out of three. By the end, just about nothing is the same, both in the reality of the setting and in what the reader knows about it (inasmuch as one could know anything about it), to say nothing of the four or five main characters, who pretty much all go through hell and survive, but not without lots and lots of scars. | |
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A Father to His Men: Cyrus, as seen when he becomes admiral. Also, Gleb, especially after he becomes the Tsar of Palladia. In the latter case it's at least partly Genre Savvy, though not really insincere. | |
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Action Mom: In the beginning of Part Three, Billy thinks his mother is this and fantasises about her slaughtering his most hated teacher at school. He isn't that off about the first part, though ultimately she's only as actiony as she has to be in the circumstances. | |
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Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder | |
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Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Strange version, as Gleb's absence leads to Svetlana falling in love... with Cyrus, her husband. | |
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