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Created and Maintained by: A.B. Credaro
Updated July 3, 2002
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FICTIONAL TITLES
Brave New Librarian (Co-written with Aldous Huxley ). The newest member of the library staff has been hired as a cataloger. Noticing that everyone in the library has been condemned to a stereotypical role (assigned by the library board) she fights the assembly line approach to library organisation and management.
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Doctor Foul-Stuff (Co-written with Christopher Marlowe). A well-respected scholar grows dissatisfied with his life, and decides that he wants to be in charge of a library. His friends instruct him in the black arts, and he begins his new career by summoning up Mephastophilis, a devil. Despite Mephastophilis' warnings about the horrors of hell, Foul-Stuff tells the devil to return to his master, Lucifer, with an offer of Foul-Stuff's soul in exchange for twenty-four years of service from Mephastophilis. Mephastophilis quits after 6 months working in the library, and returns to Hell where there are better working conditions.
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The Fellowship of the Web Ring (Co-written with J.R.R.Tolkien). A group of librarians finds that they have all built websites based on or around library science, and decide to form a loose affiliation linking to and from each other's sites. One site is overwhelming in its content, so the webmaster is outcast on the advice of an IT wizard, as it overpowers the rest.
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The Class Menagerie (Co-written with Tennessee Williams). Set in a school library, there is a daily invasion of social misfits, intellectual midgets, and daydreaming losers. They break things and upset people through their thoughtless actions. Many years later, the former students remember making the librarian cry, but don't feel any guilt or remorse. They all get more money than her - although they are on social welfare payments.
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2004 (Co-written with George Orwell). Under constant surveillance in their library, the staff decide to go beyond thinkcrimes and alter the borrowing records of their library manager. Hit with massive fines for supposedly overdue books he has never heard of, he has a nervous breakdown and leaves, taking his video equipment with him.
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The Oddity (Co-written with Homer)
The tale begins at Olympus Library, where Athena draws Zeus' attention to Odysseus whose library book was lost on the island of Calypso. Zeus sends Hermes to have Odysseus fined, and Athena goes to Ithaca in search of a higher paying job in contract researching. In Ithaca she assumes a disguise and convinces Telemachus to go on a journey seeking news of his father. Telemachus calls an assembly announcing that the suitors who have besieged his house and have eaten his food for years are in the wrong. He goes to see Nestor at Pylos and Nestor does not know anything recent about his father. Nestor advises him to go to Sparta to see Menelaus. When he gets to Sparta, Menelaus tells him that the last thing he heard about Odysseus was that he was looking for his lost library book on the island of Calypso.
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