September 22, 2004
The Invisible Library - A place for books that only exist in other books.
Allow me to be the first to say, I think this is AWESOME, although I don't know exactly why.
My inner English Lit Geek coming out, I guess.
That's really cool.
I don't read fiction much, but the few I could think of are there (Apocrypha of Muad'Dib, Orange Catholic Bible (Revised) and Instruction Manual: Missionaria Protectiva)
The Necronomicon is also there, so that settles it, doesn't it ?
H.P. Lovecraft could have his own wing in this library. I've always wanted to read the forbidden tomes, but I fear the Nameless Ones, and some knowledge is madness. ;E (Cthulhu emoticon)
this is an example of what makes this whole internet thing worthwhile.
great find!
I kind of wish they had also sorted it by fake author as well. Would be interesting to see how many fake ancient texts have been created with apparently no author.
;E (Cthulhu emoticon)
I'm going to have to remember that. Hilarious.
Best emoticon ever.
Thank God! My local library lost their copy of Menard's Quixote years ago, and I haven't been able to find a copy since...
*applauds* this is super-duper awesome. thanks.
too bad he/they stopped working on it. seems like a fun project to participate.
This is a very good post, f8x!
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I'm a big fan of the Stansilaw Lem, the Polish science ficton author. He's written a number of reviews and introductions for imaginary books, which are included here.
Some of them are books that never *could* be written, like "One Human Minute" which is supposed catalog what everyone on earth is doing during one particular 60 second period.
Good stuff.
Lovely post f8x!
*joins in applause, sends link to book-club-geek friends*
An excellent link, f8ymulder, sure to waste hours of my time. Thanks!
My faves all come from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy...
Well, that about wraps it up for God.
my alltime favourite "invisible book" is the one in Philip Dick's 'Man in the High Castle', but i cant remember its name now... Grasshopper something...
Grasshopper Lies Heavy according to this site, dhruva.
As for me, alas, couldn't find All Previous Thought, my absolute favorite book title.
I believe it was mentioned in a real book called The Pooh Perplex whose authorship now escapes me, but which consisted of a number of highly facetious papers dealing with the Winnie the Pooh stories.
The Dick thing was quite an impressive piece of metafiction, I thought. I really admired how he played one alternate history off of the other.
The Dick thing was quite an impressive piece of metafiction
(eeybita eeybita)
;E
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