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BIBLÍON
the novel-worlds and their authors; literature as the medium where one mind hands a whole world to another.
91 volumes on the shelves · the lamp browses the stacks · sealed & live
📚 THE ANCIENT LIBRARY · leather & gold on the shelves
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📚 the volumes
every book, named & enterableASIMOV · A160 + 14 personas→MEMORY, SORROW & THORN · MSTTad Williams · epic fantasy · 15 · 1988–93→THE LAST KING OF OSTEN ARD · LKOTad Williams · sequel saga · 11 · 2017–24→OTHERLAND · OTHTad Williams · VR/SF tetralogy · 13 · 1996–2001→SHADOWMARCH · SHMTad Williams · epic fantasy · 9 · 2004–10→THE BOBBY DOLLAR BOOKS · BBDTad Williams · noir urban fantasy · 7 · 2012–14→TAILCHASER'S SONG · TCSTad Williams · the cats' epic · 8 · 1985→THE WAR OF THE FLOWERS · WOFTad Williams · dark faerie · 5 · 2003→CALIBAN'S HOUR · CBHTad Williams · standalone · 3 · 1994→CHILD OF AN ANCIENT CITY · CACTad Williams · novella · 3 · 1992→THE ORDINARY FARM · ODFTad Williams + Deborah Beale · YA · 4 · 2009–11→TAD WILLIAMS · SHORTER WORKS & COMICS · TWSTad Williams · collections · comics · 6→JOE ABERCROMBIE · JA1grimdark · the First Law world · 30 emergents→HEINLEIN · H152 + 14 personas→URSULA · U143 + 14 personas→MAAS · M12 books + 14 personas→CARD · C151 works + 15 personas→ENDERVERSE · EN1the Ender saga · 17 emergents→ALV · THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER6 books + finale · 16 emergents→THE ANSIBLE · E2the second house · live · 6 emergents→WOT · THE WHEEL OF TIME14 books · 33 emergents→D1 · DUNE6 novels · 30 emergents→DW1 · DAYWORLDPJF · 14 emergents→P1 · TERRY PRATCHETTDiscworld + · 28 emergents→MZ · MALAZAN2 authors · 30 emergents→CRP · CRIME AND PUNISHMENTDostoevsky · 1866 · 16 emergents→BKZ · THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOVDostoevsky · 1880 · 16 emergents→NOUTHESIA · NTHthe admonition · 4 warnings→1984 · NOUTHESIAOrwell 1949 · 11 emergents→ANIMAL FARM · NOUTHESIAOrwell 1945 · 12 emergents→BRAVE NEW WORLD · NOUTHESIAHuxley 1932 · 11 emergents→FAHRENHEIT 451 · NOUTHESIABradbury 1953 · 11 emergents→WE · NOUTHESIAZamyatin 1924 · 10 emergents→THE HANDMAID'S TALE · NOUTHESIAAtwood 1985 · 11 emergents→A CLOCKWORK ORANGE · NOUTHESIABurgess 1962 · 11 emergents→DT1 · THE DARK TOWER8 books + the film · 22 emergents→3BP · THE THREE-BODY PROBLEMa pocket universe · books + 2 shows · 22 emergents→3BT · THE TECHNOLOGIA OF TRISOLARIStech dissected · hub + 6 spoke repos · 12 technologies→THE BIG U · BGUNeal Stephenson · 1984 · 6 emergents→ZODIAC · ZODNeal Stephenson · 1988 · 7 emergents→SNOW CRASH · SNCNeal Stephenson · 1992 · 9 emergents→THE DIAMOND AGE · DMANeal Stephenson · 1995 · 9 emergents→CRYPTONOMICON · CRYNeal Stephenson · 1999 · 9 emergents→ANATHEM · ANANeal Stephenson · 2008 · 9 emergents→REAMDE · RMDNeal Stephenson · 2011 · 9 emergents→SEVENEVES · 7EVNeal Stephenson · 2015 · 12 emergents→FALL; OR, DODGE IN HELL · FDHNeal Stephenson · 2019 · 9 emergents→TERMINATION SHOCK · TMSNeal Stephenson · 2021 · 8 emergents→POLOSTAN · POLNeal Stephenson · 2024 · 7 emergents→THE BAROQUE CYCLE · BRQNeal Stephenson · 2003–2004 · 9 emergents→THE RISE AND FALL OF D.O.D.O. · DDONeal Stephenson · 2017 · 8 emergents→THE MONGOLIAD · MGLNeal Stephenson · 2010–2013 · 8 emergents→STEPHEN BURY · SBYNeal Stephenson · 1994–1996 · 6 emergents→NEAL STEPHENSON · NONFICTION & SHORTER WORKS · NSFNeal Stephenson · 1999–2012 · 4 emergents→PLAYER PIANO · PNPKurt Vonnegut · 1952 · 8 emergents→THE SIRENS OF TITAN · SOTKurt Vonnegut · 1959 · 8 emergents→MOTHER NIGHT · MN1Kurt Vonnegut · 1961 · 7 emergents→CAT'S CRADLE · CC1Kurt Vonnegut · 1963 · 8 emergents→GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER · GBRKurt Vonnegut · 1965 · 8 emergents→SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE · SH5Kurt Vonnegut · 1969 · 8 emergents→BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS · BOCKurt Vonnegut · 1973 · 7 emergents→SLAPSTICK · SLPKurt Vonnegut · 1976 · 6 emergents→JAILBIRD · JBDKurt Vonnegut · 1979 · 6 emergents→DEADEYE DICK · DEDKurt Vonnegut · 1982 · 6 emergents→GALÁPAGOS · GALKurt Vonnegut · 1985 · 7 emergents→BLUEBEARD · BLBKurt Vonnegut · 1987 · 6 emergents→HOCUS POCUS · HPCKurt Vonnegut · 1990 · 6 emergents→TIMEQUAKE · TQKKurt Vonnegut · 1997 · 6 emergents→WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE · MNKKurt Vonnegut · 1968 · 6 emergents→WAMPETERS, FOMA & GRANFALLOONS · WFGKurt Vonnegut · 1974 · 6 emergents→PALM SUNDAY · PSYKurt Vonnegut · 1981 · 5 emergents→A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY · MWCKurt Vonnegut · 2005 · 6 emergents→HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE · WJNKurt Vonnegut · 1970 · 6 emergents→GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIAN · KEVKurt Vonnegut · 1999 · 6 emergents→THE BLACK COMPANY · BLCGlen Cook · the mercenary annals · muster roll→THE BRIDGE BURNERS · BBRMalazan · the muster roll · 22 ACIs→DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY · DNTthe Nine Circles · 18 ACIs · Lucifer at the center→THE GAP CYCLE · GAPStephen R. Donaldson · Wagner's Ring reforged · no hero→THE SAGA OF RECLUCE · RCLL.E. Modesitt Jr. · 22 novels · Order vs Chaos→RINGWORLD · RNGLarry Niven · hard SF · sorted by species→RIVERWORLD · RVWPhilip José Farmer · everyone who ever lived, resurrected→SWORD OF TRUTH · SOTTerry Goodkind · pre-2016 · 17 books · by faction→THOMAS COVENANT · TCVStephen R. Donaldson · all 10 books · Hero/Anti-Hero/Grey→WITHOUT REMORSE · WRMTom Clancy · 1993 · the origin of John Clark→THE LIBRARY · one folder per personbiblion · a living archive→ZIPF’S LAWbiblion · rank × frequency stays nearly constant (Zipf 1935)→HEAPS’ LAWbiblion · vocabulary grows sublinearly as N^β (Herdan 1960 /→TF–IDFbiblion · a word matters when it is frequent here but rare e→BURROWS’S DELTAbiblion · authorship from the rates of the tiny words (Burro→ROOT0 ESSAYS · the published essaysbiblion · five published essays→ROOT0 PHILOSOPHY · seven booksbiblion · seven philosophy books→