<Ul> <Li> Umberto Eco's postmodern novel The Name of the Rose (1980) features a labyrinthine library, presided over by a blind monk named Jorge of Burgos . </Li> <Li> In "The Net of Babel", published in Interzone in 1995, David Langford imagines the Library becoming computerized for easy access . This aids the librarians in searching for specific text while also highlighting the futility of such searches as they can find anything, but nothing of meaning as such . The sequel continues many of Borges's themes, while also highlighting the difference between data and information, and satirizing the Internet . </Li> <Li> Russell Standish's Theory of Nothing uses the concept of the Library of Babel to illustrate how an ultimate ensemble containing all possible descriptions would in sum contain zero information and would thus be the simplest possible explanation for the existence of the universe . This theory, therefore, implies the reality of all universes . </Li> <Li> Michael Ende reused the idea of a universe of hexagonal rooms in the Temple of a Thousand Doors from The Neverending Story, which contained all the possible characteristics of doors in the fantastic realm . A later chapter features the infinite monkey theorem . </Li> <Li> Terry Pratchett uses the concept of the infinite library in his Discworld novels . The knowledgeable librarian is a human wizard transformed into an orangutan . </Li> <Li> The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel (2008) by William Goldbloom Bloch explores the short story from a mathematical perspective . Bloch analyzes the hypothetical library presented by Borges using the ideas of topology, information theory, and geometry . </Li> <Li> In Greg Bear's novel City at the End of Time (2008), the sum - runners carried by the protagonists are intended by their creator to be combined to form a' Babel', an infinite library containing every possible permutation of every possible character in every possible language . Bear has stated that this was inspired by Borges, who is also namechecked in the novel . Borges is described as an unknown Argentinian who commissioned an encyclopedia of impossible things, a reference to either "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" or the Book of Imaginary Beings . </Li> <Li> Fone, a short comic novel drawn by Milo Manara, features a human astronaut and his alien partner stranded on a planet named Borges Profeta . The planet is overflowed by books containing all the possible permutations of letters . </Li> <Li> Steven L. Peck wrote a novella entitled A Short Stay in Hell (2012) in which the protagonist must find the book containing his life story in an afterlife replica of Borges' Library of Babel . </Li> <Li> The third season of Carmilla, a Canadian single - frame web series based on the novella by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, is set in a mystical library described as "non-Euclidean" and omnipotent . It contains a door that, depending on the knocking pattern on its panels, can be opened into any universe . It also creates a temporary parallel universe and is able to shift a character between the parallel and the original . As the parallel universe collapses, darkness falls, and a character perishes in the void after uttering the words, "O time thy pyramids," which are contained on the second - to - last page of a book in the Library of Babel . </Li> <Li> In Jonathan Nolan's and Christopher Nolan's screenplay for Interstellar, the protagonist, Cooper, played by Matthew McConaughey, becomes trapped in a world which mirrors that of Borges' i.e. Cooper's universe consists of an enormous expanse of adjacent hexagonal rooms, or libraries, each of which contains the bare necessities for survival . Though the order and content of the books and rooms are random and apparently completely meaningless, Cooper can, by manipulating the books, affect change in the "real" world and is, as such, analogous to the "Man of the Book", the messianic figure in The Library of Babel . Unlike the Man of the Book, however, Cooper is something more than just a metaphor and has a transformative role in his Universe, becoming a catalyst and an agent of change . </Li> <Li> Jonathan Basile enterprised to recreate the Library in Borges' story on his website http://libraryofbabel.info, adapted to the English language . An algorithm he created generates a' book' by iterating every permutation of 29 characters: the 26 English letters, space, comma, and period . Each book is marked by a coordinate, corresponding to its place on the hexagonal library (hexagon name, wall number, shelf number, and book name) so that every book can be found at the same place every time . The website is said to contain "all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 10 books". </Li> </Ul> <Li> Umberto Eco's postmodern novel The Name of the Rose (1980) features a labyrinthine library, presided over by a blind monk named Jorge of Burgos . </Li> <Li> In "The Net of Babel", published in Interzone in 1995, David Langford imagines the Library becoming computerized for easy access . This aids the librarians in searching for specific text while also highlighting the futility of such searches as they can find anything, but nothing of meaning as such . The sequel continues many of Borges's themes, while also highlighting the difference between data and information, and satirizing the Internet . </Li> <Li> Russell Standish's Theory of Nothing uses the concept of the Library of Babel to illustrate how an ultimate ensemble containing all possible descriptions would in sum contain zero information and would thus be the simplest possible explanation for the existence of the universe . This theory, therefore, implies the reality of all universes . </Li>

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