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The Book of Gold is the name used by the librarian in Gene Wolfe's New Sun books to describe the magical book encountered in childhood that opens up the great world within books for a particular child.
It was also a short-lived Gene Wolfe fanzine, published twice in 1989 by a chap called Jeremy Crampton in the USA. Both editions are largely concerned with the Soldier of the Mist series, although they touch on other works.
Jeremy was also good enough to make copies of Castle of the Otter available when it was pretty much unobtainable outside the US, for which I am very grateful - I still have my copy, even though I have the more recent, expanded version too.
Why am I telling you this. Mainly, I'm telling Google. I've responded to a couple of requests for copies from the Urth mailing list, but I don't read it much anymore, so if anyone else wants a copy, they can contact me here, and I'll send them one.
Posted by MFreestone at January 26, 2006 09:19 PM