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Book recommendations that play with what it means to be a book (lemmynsfw.com)
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I really love sci-fi novels and I read a lot of books. I read 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson a while back and that book is particularly interesting to me. Rather than each chapter advancing the narrative of the story, there were occasional breaks where a chapter would have a list of semi-random words which just gave the vibe of what's happening, or some history of a scene, or a recipe for how to build an asteroid.

There's another book that I have heard of but neglected to write the name down, where the reader of the book is a character within the book, and the narrator speaks directly to you (but not a choose-your-adventure style book).

All of this got me interested in finding other books, preferably sci-fi or maybe fantasy, where the concept of being a book is played with and new ideas are tried. Any recommendations?

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[–] huskypenguin@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Player of Games is told in reverse, it works really well. Book of the New Sun is an Ouroborus, so you don't really understand it until you read it twice.

Edit: I mean "Use of Weapons" not Player of Games.

[–] treetop@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Use of Weapons is among my absolute favorite books. What an absolutely incredible journey