Arabian Nights (Craig Shaw Gardner)

"Parody of the Arabian Nights (Arabian Fantasy). In the first volume, a Genie confuses the real Sinbad and a street porter with the same name, precipitating various adventures taken from the original; in the second, Ali Baba and Aladdin become involved, along with Scheherazade; with pleasing intricacy, the first two volumes turn out to be tales told by Sinbad and Ali Baba in a storytelling contest, which Scheherazade tops by herself narrating the actual third volume, in which she describes herself narrating it." (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biographical entry by John Clute