Probably the most clever book I've read in an awfully long time. My only wish is that I didn't know it's factuality until after I read it.

The book is made up of several short stories, all of which are billed as bits and parts of the Odyssey that didn't make the codification. Or, as I put it to a friend; they're all the heretic bits. So you see multiple variations of Odysseus' return to Ithaca, multiple imaginations of Achilles, etc. There's also some neat stories: The Odyssey as a chess game, the whole story from the point of view of Polyphemus, and the like.

It's a collection of short stories, but a wickedly clever one. I vaguely remembered hearing of it through BLDGBlog, and Manaugh's interview with Zachary Mason is certainly one worth reading: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/computational-mythologies-interview.html. Mason mentions remaking the Odyssey as a story of the Caucasus. My interest is, of course, piqued.

It's hardly a great work of literature, but it is a wickedly fascinating book. So go and read it.