A Google alert yesterday informed me that The Infinite Library and Other Stories was one of ten featured books in Olivia Ho’s Straits Times article “Escape Reality Into Magical Worlds“.
“Unable to leave home due to circuit breaker measures or even set foot outside your room due to a home quarantine order? Escape your physical confines through the “uniquely portable magic” of books, as author Stephen King puts it. Here are 10 works of fiction that contain worlds within worlds for you to wander.“
- “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” (1950) by C.S. Lewis
- “Neverwhere” (1996) by Neil Gaiman
- “Sophia and the Utopia Machine” (2018) by Judith Huang
- “His Dark Materials” (1995 to 2000) by Philip Pullman
- “Howl’s Moving Castle” (1986) by Diana Wynne Jones
- “The Star-Touched Queen” (2016) by Roshani Chokshi
- “The Night Circus” (2011) by Erin Morgenstern
- “The Eyre Affair” (2001) by Jasper Fforde
- “The Infinite Library and Other Stories” (2017, Math Paper Press) by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
- “Neverending Story (1979, translated 1983) by Michael Ende (translated by Ralph Manheim)
Happy to be in such distinguished company. Thank you for including my book!
Math Paper Press recently ran a second printing and you can now get a copy again at Kinokuniya, localbooks.sg and BooksActually.
Between 11 to 13 May, 2020 there will be a sale of all Math Paper Press Titles at BooksActuallyshop.com. Use the code MPP40 when you shop at the online store to get a 40% discount. They deliver internationally.
n.b. Thank you also to Jason Erik Lundberg for the PDF scan above.
THE INFINITE LIBRARY AND OTHER STORIES (2017, Math Paper Press)
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
This fantastical collection of 17 stories alludes to Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges’s idea of an infinite library that contains every book that could possibly be written.
The stories flit from world to world – from an enigmatic map shop to an uprising on a spaceship and to a Bukit Batok housing block where the inhabitants are being slowly but relentlessly transformed into living mathematical equations.
The Infinite Library and Other Stories 