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This probably is slightly strange, but one of my favorite hobbies is reading encyclopedia-esque sites, such as wikipedia, awoiaf, tolkiengateway, and the like.

Do you guys have any recs for similar content, ie, fiction written as nonfiction?

>> No.15667073
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15667073

Do you have autism?

>> No.15667094

>>15667073
No. I thought it was strange too, but all my friends have similar inclinations, so....

>> No.15667293

Don Quixote

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>>15667023
Borges. Borges fucking loves to do this with his short stories. A lot of his short stories are written to be like encyclopedia entries, or blurbs for longer books in a magazine, or entries in a history book, but all of them are talking about things that are totally fake. Borges loves to take things that aren't real and treat them like they are.

>> No.15667374

>>15667023
The Silmarillion.

>> No.15667376

>>15667311
based.

the invisible cities of calvino is like that too, some marco polo shit but with crazy cities.

>> No.15667431

Borges is a much better response but unironically the SCP Foundation wiki if you aren't already aware. its just sci-fi ish creepypasta written as wikipedia entries
http://www.scp-wiki.net

>> No.15667711

Dictionary of the Khazars
And
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

>> No.15667729

rings of saturn

>> No.15667732

you should definitely read Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño. It’s written all as encyclopedic entries about writers that are actually fictional. Someone already mentioned Borges in the thread but Bolaño was pretty influenced by him.

>> No.15667744

Gargantua and Pantagruel
Penguin Island
I guess you would like the Greeks too.
Possibly Jonathan Swift or Victor Hugo as well.

>> No.15667765

>>15667311
>>15667374
>>15667376
>>15667431
>>15667711
>>15667729
>>15667732
>>15667744
Thanks for the suggestions!

>> No.15667840

House of Leaves