As I do a read through of the various appendices of inspirational reading from various RPGs, it's interesting to note which books hold up compared to modern books. Or how some ideas stick with us.
Like one vignette from The Dying Earth by Jack Vance has color-coded people of opposing religions forced by a tyrannical wizard to just not see or acknowledge one another, except when one side attempts to gain both halves of a tablet that will impart knowledge. And... yeah.