A few years ago Ultan contributor Jeremy Crampton offered us the chance to host PDF (Acrobat) copies of his old fanzine, THE BOOK OF GOLD.
Jeremy published 2 issues of the fanzine, focussing on Wolfe’s two books about Latro, SOLDIER OF THE MIST and SOLDIER OF ARETE. There’s some really interesting commentary on Latro, which nicely supplements the articles Jeremy has written for Ultan’s Library.
We published the PDF versions of the fanzine on our old site, but ran into problems when we upgraded Ultan’s Library to Wordpress. Thanks to the sterling negotiating skills of my co-conspirator, Nigel, we’ve resolved these difficulties and are now able to make both issues of THE BOOK OF GOLD available once more.
You’ll need the Adobe Acrobat reader to open the files.
by Jeremy Crampton
The moon is down
Taurus was in the sky before: it’s gone.
Time is passing.
It is midnight and I lie here alone.
Sappho.
“Who writes? For whom is the writing being done?” So Edward Said began his essay “Opponents, audiences, constituencies and community”, 1 by asking questions he said were vital for a “politics of interpretation.” Said, talking about modern literary criticism, could equally have been referring to genre fiction. His questions are particularly relevant for an examination of Wolfe’s writing. Read the rest of this entry »