Book assuming classic Sci Fi novels are true?

[CDWhite]

Hey all, I can't remember the name or author of a sci fi book, maybe about 10 years old. All I remember is the premise was that it is written assumin gthat classic sci fi books are all in fact history books, and the narrator is trying to piece together what life in the 20th century must have been like.

Does it ring any bells?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Metryq]

This particular scenario doesn't ring any bells (piecing together the 20th century based on novels), but the premise of fiction being reality shows up in Heinlein's The Number of the Beast, the Patrick Troughton Doctor Who episode "The Mind Robber," and the comedy movie Galaxy Quest.

 

[J-Sun]

Also not what you're looking for, but Alfred Bester wrote "The Flowered Thundermug" which also involves creating a messed-up history of the 20th century out of fragmentary non-evidence.

 

[Metryq]

Bester's books would be so much better without all the Batman, comic book typography.

 

[CDWhite]

Thanks guys, the Bester book sounds good. I just went to the british library's SF and saw a book description describing this scenario, but I foolishly didn't write the book down and I'm now regretting it. I'm sure i'll find it!