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synth_real posted...

While not exactly what you're looking for, I recommend Umberto Eco. If you want something full-length, The Name of The Rose is a great book to start with, but he's also written multiple collections of shorter essays, How To Travel With A Salmon is a great one.

I was fighting the urge to recommend Foucault's Pendulum. I think it's fantastic, but I'm also aware a lot of people have trouble reading Umberto Eco.



speedpunk posted...

While I haven't read the Thomas Covenant books, I absolutely love Donaldson's sci-fi, The Gap Series. I'm currently rereading it.

I could never get into the Gap series, mainly because I'm not a huge fan of sci-fi. Even though I like the conceit that they're supposedly secretly based on the Ring Cycle by Wagner (which I also love).

I do love the Thomas Covenant novels though. And Mordant's Need. I've been meaning to read The Great God's War books because those are fantasy as well, but I haven't gotten around to it yet (mainly because I've kind of drifted away from fiction entirely lately to read more historical non-fiction instead).

Though that kind of reminds me - if Muscles is interested in alternate history sci-fi, he could also check out Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series. Which can basically be summed up as "What if lizard aliens invaded Earth in the middle of WWII and humans had to put aside their differences to fight back against them?"