Londres, 1660. La siniestra Lady Marchamont encarga a un vendedor de libros, Isaac Inchbold, la búsqueda de un texto hermético titulado El laberinto del mundo, desaparecido de la inmensa biblioteca de su padre durante los saqueos de la guerra civil. La única pista de que dispone el desconcertado lib
Ex Libris Stories of Librarians, Libraries and Lore
✍ Scribed by Paula Guran
- Publisher
- Prime Books
- Year
- 2017;2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 302 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1607014890
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenment as well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors to delight, speculation, wonder, and terror.
This captivating compilation of science fiction and fantasy short fiction showcases stories of librarians--mysterious curators, heroic bibliognosts, arcane archivists, catalogers of very special collections--and libraries: repositories of arcane wisdom, storehouses of signals from other galaxies, bastions of culture, the last outposts of civilization in a post-apocalyptic world . . .
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