# Elves novel **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elves-novel/40140 "2000-11-07T17:25:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elves-novel/40140/1 "2000-11-07T17:25:30Z")
What was 60’s or 70’s novel about a world under the cities? There was the hallucinogenic “waybread of the elves” some kind of lichen or something. Swords and searches and rescues and the entrance to the world is in your basement. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elves-novel/40140/2 "2020-08-13T17:47:59Z")
Not the 60’s or 70’s, but could it be Rick Shelley’s [The Varayan Memoir](https://www.amazon.com/Son-Hero-Varayan-Memoir-Book-ebook/dp/B008HT2VZ8/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&qid=1597340735&refinements=p_27%3ARick+Shelley&s=digital-text&sr=1-11&text=Rick+Shelley) from the early 90’s? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elves-novel/40140/3 "2020-08-13T19:22:56Z")
Wow, Omar, what brought you back to this thread? Anyway, moving to Cafe Society, which didn’t exist when this thread was created. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elves-novel/40140/4 "2020-08-13T19:41:02Z")
20 Years Later is the best heading I’ve seen over a thread on the Dope. Say what you want, but I really like the new system/software. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elves-novel/40140/5 "2020-08-14T19:16:12Z")
Yeah, I certainly don’t like everything about the new system, but marking large time jumps is a nice feature.