Name:
Librarinth
Type:
Library city
Location:
The Needle
First Seen In:
The Infinity Doctors
Appearances:
Miranda
The Librarinth was a vast depository of all surviving knowledge and art from the universe before the Emperor’s reign. It was the largest city on the surface of the Needle. (Father Time)
Ferran plotted to use the genetic code of Miranda Dawkins to open the Librarinth. (Miranda)
One room of the Librarinth was dedicated to relics from Earth. Its books included Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Time Ships, Slaughterhouse‐Five, the complete works of James Milton, and Jorge Luis Borges’ lost novel O Time Your Pyramids.
At the very end of the universe, the Needle People lived in the Librarinth. (The Infinity Doctors)
BEHIND THE SCENES
In the Librarinth’s first appearance, in The Infinity Doctors, the lost Borges novel O Time Your Pyramids is named after the line “O time thy pyramids” from Borges’ famous short story The Library of Babel, which features an infinite library much like the Librarinth.