On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Joy Jennifer Nicholson wrote: > > I really realy really wish there were more books like that - a fantasy > or sci-fi setting, but with characters who are not kings, wizards, or > the dark savior prophesized to either destroy or heal the world. I recommend Gene Wolfe's _Peace_, his earliest and perhaps best novel. I guess it's somewhere between plain fiction, magical realism, horror, and fantasy. And of course Crowley's _Engine Summer_, which is sci-fi about a mood.