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Russell Hasan

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in The United States

Website

https://russellhasan.com/

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Nonfiction, Fantasy, Philosophy

Influences

Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, John Locke, Friedrich Nietzsche, Glen Cook, ...more

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Russell Hasan was born the son of a white Jewish mother and a dark-skinned Bangladeshi Muslim father—and that isn’t the strangest thing about him. His father had ties to the mafia—nope, not the weirdest thing about him. He thought he was a gay man for many years before realizing he is nonbinary agender asexual—relatively normal compared to what truly makes him strange. Do you want to know what the weirdest, strangest thing about Russell is?

He's a WRITER.

Yes, that’s right. He writes. Why? How? Why would he want to do that to himself? How could he allow this to happen to himself? He is still trying to figure that one out. Therapy can cure lots of things and alcohol and drugs can cure other things, but the only cure for being a writer is to wr ...more

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Average rating: 3.18 · 574 ratings · 156 reviews · 67 distinct works

	On Forgiveness 3.68 avg rating — 47 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A System of Legal Logic: Using Aristotle, Ayn Rand, and Analytical Philosophy to Understand the Law, Interpret Cases, and Win in Litigation (A Scholarly Monograph) 3.59 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What They Won’t Tell You About Objectivism: Thoughts on the Objectivist Philosophy in the Post-Randian Era 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Power of Objectivism: Ayn Rand and John Galt and Atlas Shrugged and The Morality of Life, Intelligence, Greed, Selfishness, Rationality, Individuality, Integrity, Capitalism, Desire, and Freedom 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Wand Trilogy (The Golden Wand #1-3) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 34 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manifestation 3.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Golden Rule Libertarianism: A Defense of Freedom in Social, Economic, and Legal Policy 3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crystal of Light: An Epic Fantasy Romance Heist Thriller LitRPG Adventure 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Brief History of the Ideas of Western Philosophy: Sensations, Necessity, Knowledge, and God liked it 3.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Ways from Sunday: A Collection of 42 Poems 2.33 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Author Update October 2026

My two new novels I published early last month failed to sell, so, on the advice of some writers who I workshopped them with at a writer's workshop, I have re-categorized them as YA fantasy. One of them was a novel I always envisioned as YA fantasy. The other novel I had thought was just a normal fantasy novel, but the people who read it told me they viewed it as YA fantasy also, so we'll see if t Read more of this blog post »

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Russell Hasan wrote a new blog post Author Update October 2026 My two new novels I published early last month failed to sell, so, on the advice of some writers who I workshopped them with at a writer's workshop, I Read more of this blog post »
Oct 02, 2026 06:50AM · like
Russell Hasan made a comment on Kirk Weikart’s review of The Crystal of Light " What I intended, and the way I pictured it in my head, was that the dragon fills the entire Crystal Chamber vertically, but not horizontally, which is ...more "
Nov 24, 2024 01:47PM · see review