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ODOM, MEL. The Destruction of the Books. Tor. Jul. 2004. c.384p. ISBN 0-765-30723-5. $25.95. FANTASY
Master Librarian Edgewick Lamplighter of the Great Library has grown old and taken an apprentice, the young halfling Jugh, to gather the books of the world together in the name of conserving knowledge. When a retrieved book turns out to be a trap that results in the destruction of most of the tomes in the Vault of All Known Knowledge, a confrontation looms between those who wish to preserve the …