• The Library Cosmic

The Library Cosmic

by Ben Berman Ghan

May 26, 2026 | ISBN 978-1-998408-41-2 | 246 Pages

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I have made a new librarian. He will make our library a treasure beyond our wildest dreams. He will save our pages from the dark.

Two ghosts chase each other around the world through the centuries in pursuit of the words of the dead. A golem moulded during the Spanish Inquisition builds a library that spans the universe. Brothers find solace in a strange eco-cult in a dystopian future.

In this fabulous and moving collection of short stories Ben Berman Ghan traverses time, space and the written word to consider the mysteries of life. These stories ask the big questions: What is consciousness? What gives a being its soul? What are the boundaries of love? And, perhaps most importantly, how will libraries save us all?

“Imagine this: you go into your local bookstore or library and ask for a book where somewhere in the future and also in the past, China Miéville and Amal El-Mohtar collaborated with Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino to write fiction about the enigmatic,
mysterious, numinous power of books and libraries; of memory, time and stories; of relationships, queerness and words; and also included a golem and some cyborgs. Right, they say, disappearing into a cloud, into rumour and smoke, then hand you The Library Cosmic. This book. It does what you hope a book can do: inspire, surprise, confound, move and explain, sometimes things you didn’t even know you wondered about, sometimes things you always have. It’s beautiful and intriguing. It’s world-expanding.” – Gary Barwin, author of Scandal at the Alphorn Factory and Yiddish for Pirates

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