"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges [0]. Borges was a direct influence on William Gibson most notably (to me at least) seen with the short story "The A

"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges [0]. Borges was a direct influence on William Gibson most notably (to me at least) seen with the short story "The Aleph" by Borges [1]. Gibson had an "aleph" device simulating reality in "Mona Lisa Overdrive" (which many of the characters mispronounced as "LF" device). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aleph_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aleph_(short_story)