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The Cloud Over Roke
The school on Roke was founded largely by women, then closed against them. What reaches its wizards isn't that history but the songs.
Whichever Comes Second
Lem's The Invincible works as a game and it works as a novel. It doesn't work as both, and whichever you come to second is the one that pays.
Told Without Telling
Keeper tells its story the way Inside and the Souls games do, with the history in the world rather than in dialogue—and none of the adrenaline.
The Man in the Middle
Puzo's The Sicilian sets a bandit's belief against the law of the Mafia, with Michael Corleone caught in the middle.