Editing Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (section)

==Influence on later works==
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" has inspired a number of real-world projects:

* "Small Demons", a website that "obsessively maps out cultural allusions found in books",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookforum.com/paper/archive/20120402|title=BookForum|date=April 2, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Small Demons |url=https://www.smalldemons.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109072521/https://www.smalldemons.com/ |archive-date=9 November 2013 |website=Small Demons}}</ref> was inspired by Borges, according to CEO Valla Vakili: "The inspiration for the name comes from the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, specifically a passage in his short story 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'. Borges writes, 'The history of the universe… is the handwriting produced by a Minor god in order to communicate with a Demon.' I read that as, the history of the universe is all the stories ever told. Minor gods are the storytellers who rule the worlds of their stories. And the Demon is the force that drives the need for stories, the place where author and reader meet. I took 'Minor' and 'Demon' and from there, Small Demons."<ref>{{cite web|last=Oliver|first=Danielle|title=Storyverser|url=http://www.dailybrink.com/?p=4321}}</ref>
* "Prisoners of Uqbaristan", a short story by [[Chris Nakashima-Brown]] in which Borges himself appears, is heavily influenced by the philosophy of Tlön.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20041018/uqbaristan-f.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194022/http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20041018/uqbaristan-f.shtml|url-status=dead|title=Strange Horizons Fiction: Prisoners of Uqbaristan, by Chris Nakashima-Brown<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=March 3, 2016|access-date=May 14, 2020}}</ref>
* ''[[Codex Seraphinianus]]'', a mock encyclopedia by [[Luigi Serafini (artist)|Luigi Serafini]], describes a surreal world entirely in drawings, an invented alphabet, and a fictional language.
* [[Ummo]], a [[hoax]] of more than one thousand pages of pictures and text in letter form, describes an [[extraterrestrial life|extraterrestrial]] civilization and its contact with Earth. [[UFO]] researcher [[Jacques Vallée]] has specifically likened Ummo to "Tlön, Uqbar ...".<ref>[[Jacques Vallee|Vallee, Jacques]]. ''Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception''. (1992, Souvenir Press, {{ISBN|0-285-63073-3}}, pages 111-113)</ref>
* The Borges story directly inspired [[Grant Morrison]]'s creation of the cancerous and fictional city of Orqwith in the [[DC Comics]] series ''[[Doom Patrol]]''. In the comic book storyline, a group of intellectuals uses a tactile, [[braille]]-like language to create a black book describing the city of Orqwith. As people on different planets encounter the book, it infects their worlds, overcoming them in the way a malignant tumor would. Thus different sections of the planets are sliced off, only to be replaced with Orqwith.
* Tlön is featured in the [[Marvel Comics]] series ''[[Secret Avengers]]'' by Ales Kot and Michael Walsh, as a chaotic dimension the villain [[M.O.D.O.K.]] plans to bring monstrosities from to destroy the Earth. A chain of people that created a communal mindspace based on negative emotions is used to open a gate to Tlön. The plan, ultimately carried by M.O.D.O.K.'s assistant Snapper, is thwarted by the [[Secret Avengers]] and M.O.D.O.K. himself. In the end of the storyline, one of the characters, a sentient bomb named Vladimir, is transported to Tlön, where he meets an unseen entity he initially identifies as "Jorg--" before being interrupted by the entity himself. The story ''Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius'' is explicitly referenced by characters that investigated Tlön.
*In [[Ted Chiang]]'s story [[The Lifecycle of Software Objects]], one of the virtual worlds mentioned is called Orbis Tertius.

Several other projects have names derived from the story:
* '''''Axaxaxas mlö''''' is the title of a fictional book mentioned in another Borges short story, "[[The Library of Babel]]".
* '''''hlör u fang axaxaxas mlö''''', taken from the example of the Tlön language described in the story, is the title of a [[chamber music]] piece for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano by Colombian-American composer [[Diego Vega]], which won the 2004 Colombian National Prize for Music Composition, awarded by the Colombian Ministry of Culture.<ref>Diego Vega, [http://diegovega.com/works/chamber-music/hlor-u-fang-axaxaxas-mlo Hlör u fang axaxaxas mlö for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano], accessed online 24 August 2011.</ref><ref>{{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070727042117/http://sinic.mincultura.gov.co/culturactiva/not.asp?NOT_ID=60 La gran noche de la cultura colombiana], 2004, Colombian Ministry of Culture, accessed via Internet Archive 24 August 2011.</ref>
* '''Orbis Tertius''' is the magazine of thinking and analysis (''Revista de pensamiento y análisis'') of the [[Universidad Camilo José Cela]].
* '''Tlön Uqbar''', named after the Borges story, is a joint project of French [[industrial music|industrial]] bands [[Internal Fusion]] and [[Désaccord Majeur]]. Their album ''La Bola Perdida'' was released in 1999 by the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] label Staalplaat.
* '''Uqbar''', named in honor of Borges's story, is a [[user interface|browser]]/reader for [[Project Gutenberg]] [[etext]]s, in pre-alpha {{As of|2006|lc=on}}.<ref>[http://sourceforge.net/projects/uqbar SourceForge's Project Uqbar page], accessed online 14 November 2006.</ref>
* '''Uqbar''' is the name of an instance of the encyclopedia-building game ''[[Lexicon (game)|Lexicon]]'', based on Borges's work.
* '''Uqbar''' is the name of a planet in the game ''[[Mass Effect]]''.
* '''Tlon''' is the name of the company developing computing platform ''[[Urbit]]''.

[[W. G. Sebald|WG Sebald]] refers to Tlön and its philosophy repeatedly in his book ''[[The Rings of Saturn]]''.

Trumpeter [[Nils Petter Molvær]] released the album ''[[Khmer (album)|Khmer]]'' on ECM in 1998 which includes the track "Tlön".