I will have to... probably rebuy Final Reflection on Kindle... and then go back and look!
(The nice part about rebuying TDW is that the copy I got was apparently some kind of promotional copy and came with a photocopied blurb from the publisher tucked inside the front cover; reading it made me appreciate how difficult this book is to describe in a way that makes it sound like... a normal SF/F book, if that makes any sense.)
Have you ever read Avram Davidson's Vergil Magus series? It's sort of similar to TDW in that it takes these really straightforward sounding premises and then ends up with extremely trippy historical SF/F with a lot of allusions worked in. The premise in this case is -- okay, well, you know the medieval belief that Vergil, the author of the Aeneid, was really a magician/sorcerer and therefore that was why everyone used the Aeneid for bibliomancy etc etc? The premise of the trilogy is that they were right and Vergil was, in fact, a magician. Anyway, if you like TDW for these reasons you might like this.
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Date: 2019-09-24 04:39 am (UTC)(The nice part about rebuying TDW is that the copy I got was apparently some kind of promotional copy and came with a photocopied blurb from the publisher tucked inside the front cover; reading it made me appreciate how difficult this book is to describe in a way that makes it sound like... a normal SF/F book, if that makes any sense.)
Have you ever read Avram Davidson's Vergil Magus series? It's sort of similar to TDW in that it takes these really straightforward sounding premises and then ends up with extremely trippy historical SF/F with a lot of allusions worked in. The premise in this case is -- okay, well, you know the medieval belief that Vergil, the author of the Aeneid, was really a magician/sorcerer and therefore that was why everyone used the Aeneid for bibliomancy etc etc? The premise of the trilogy is that they were right and Vergil was, in fact, a magician. Anyway, if you like TDW for these reasons you might like this.