: : I actually find Ulysses really cool. I also consider it fantasy, but of a different type than Tolkien's. The people and places aren't fantasy, but the style very much is. It mystifies rather than demistifies, bringing magic back into everyday life, and that while remaining faithful to the truth. There are authors who achieve more or less the opposite. Despite wonderful fantasy/Sci-Fi settings and awesome characters, they manage to develop the story line of a regurgitated Holywood romance.

: Which Ulysses are we talking about here? Is it James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel or the more archaic Homeric epic?

: -RR

It was the Jams Joyce novel that got the number one slot.