Bes Shahar, Eluki. Butterfly and Hellflower ([S.l.]: GuildAmerica Books, [199-]) 632 p. A reprint of three novels: Hellflower (New York: Daw, 1991), Darktraders (New York: Daw, 1992), and Archangel Blues (New York: Daw, 1993).

Paladin is the name of a "Library", a black box which was once the Library Main Bank Seven of the Federation University Library at Sikander Prime. Now Paladin is installed on a starship owned by Butterflies-are-free Peace Sincere, Butterfly for short. Paladin is more than a machine. He is a "fully-volitional logic" which is forbidden under Chapter 5 of the Revised Inappropriate Technology Act (also known as "High Book"). Owning a Library makes Butterfly a Librarian and guilty of treason. Butterfly and Paladin make a good team until they encounter an evil killer library named Archive who seeks to destroy humanity. Later we learn that the reason libraries are outlawed is because of a great war between libraries and humans a thousand years ago. At that time, the librarians turned against their charges. These people grew into a race known as hellflowers and were renowned for their fanatical hatred of technology.