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Computer Scientist. Postdoctoral research fellow interested in Boolean satisfiability and counting. Feminist. Trekkie. Traveller. Go-to LaTeX expert in our research group.

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Literary sub-genre: Novel or play retells a classic from the perspective of a secondary character or characters. The new story tracks the the original but shifts some of its action offstage. The two versions intertwine, each now commenting on the other.

Examples:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard).
James (Percival Everett).

Are there others? There must be.

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@JamesGleick A Thousand Ships, by Natalie Haynes, tells the story of the Trojan War from the perspective of the women (except, maybe that one woman…), starting, of course, with Homer’s muse.

Also want to echo others who mentioned Madeline Miller’s books; Circe in particular.

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