Damage To WOT Collection

[Sa Wasai]

Had a water pipe break and damage part of my book collection. Insurance will pay to replace the WOT books but my printed-out copy of the short story about the assault on Shayol Gul and sealing the bore was completely destroyed. Is it in the archives someplace?

[JenniferL]

Thats awful!

 

Luckily, The Strike at Shayol Ghul is still available online.

 

http://www.tor.com/shayol.html

[Sa Wasai]

Awful was a good start.

Out of +1500 bound and paperback books I lost maybe 70. The Tolkien paperback collection (with the original watercolor covers) I had since the late sixties (first printings) is safe. Alas, Xanth is no more (but some argue that is a Good Thing). More of the sci fi collection got soaked (by my solar water heating) than the fantasy (in a perfectly balanced world tunnel snakes will now eat the fantasy collection). I will press/bind-dry what I can- a shirt silk screener is letting me use one of his tables and I get to use his dryer. The pulps (Amazing, Astounding, Analog) and the leather-bound signed first editions were in a sealed case so there was no damage. A good friend of mine is my insurance agent (and frequent borrower from my library); he signed off my claim without fuss so I can replace the WOT collection and whatever else is damaged beyond reasonable repair. All in all I was fortunate to lose so little; I will have to start haunting used books stores for the older out of print ones but that isn't exactly what I'd call a hardship!

 

Almost forgot- Thank You for the link!