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''[[Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius]]'' is a 1940 [[Magic Realism]] short story by [[Jorge Luis Borges]]. Although it's only a few hundred words long and not a particularly easy read, it quickly became one of the most influential works of fiction of the 1940's.
The report begins with an unnamed narrator, who becomes fascinated with the land of "Uqbar" that a friend tells him of. Uqbar, as it turns out, only exists in one copy of one edition of ''The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia'', and the article is mostly self-referential.
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An addendum to the report, dated 1947, is repentant rather than speculative. {{spoiler|The narrator was right: Uqbar and Tlön were indeed made up by a 17th century secret society... with the goal of eventually writing Tlön into reality. They ''succeed''.}}
''Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'' directly inspired many popular works of fiction, most notably the ''[[Codex Seraphinianus]]''. Its cultural impact can also be found in ''[[Myst]]'' and, prominently, in ''[[House of Leaves]]''.
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